HURDLE COUNT-DATA MODELS IN RECREATION DEMAND ANALYSIS

By: Shonkwiler, John Scott; Shaw, W. Douglass
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Shonkwiler, John Scott; Shaw, W. Douglass, HURDLE COUNT-DATA MODELS IN RECREATION DEMAND ANALYSIS, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Volume 21, Issue 2, December 1996, Pages 210-219

When a sample of recreators is drawn from the general population using a survey, many in the sample will not recreate at a recreation site of interest. This study focuses on nonparticipation in recreation demand modeling and the use of modified count-data models. We clarify the meaning of the single-hurdle Poisson (SHP) model and derive the double-hurdle Poisson (DHP) model. The latter is contrasted with the SHP and we show the DHP is consistent with Johnson and Kotz's zero-modified Poisson model.