The city of New Orleans suffered extensive damage as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Katrina overwhelmed the natural and built environment, inundating the city. As rebuilding proceeds, decisions on investment in protective measures will include the choice of lines of defense and the storm...

We estimate demand models with revealed preference (RP) site selection and stated preference (SP) discrete choice experiment marine recreational fishing data. We combine RP data from the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) creel survey with SP survey data from 2003/04. RP and SP data...

Due to their non-market characteristics, coastal habitats are often valued using stated preference methods, such as discrete choice experiments. An extensive literature cautions the confounding influence of both choice complexity and hypothetical bias in these types of welfare analyses. In...

Independent experts and politicians have criticized statistical analyses of recreation behavior that rely upon onsite samples due to their potential for biased inference, prompting some to suggest support for these efforts should be curtailed. The use of onsite sampling usually reflects data or...