In a recent issue of this journal, Walker (1984) emphasized the need for good economic analysis in public evaluation of national park expansions. We support this but would like to show that a possible reason the economic analysis referred to in Walker's paper was ignored may be the very narrow...

This article evaluates the ability of contingent valuation to measure the benefits received by several ethnic groups from a prescribed burning forest fire reduction program similar to President Bush's Healthy Forest Initiative. Reasons for refusing to pay higher taxes for the prescribed burning...

"We develop a method for determining the economic returns to using original valuation research rather than benefit transfer to estimate nonmarket values for policy analysis purposes. We provide a method to guide policymakers in determining the project sizes for which original research can be...