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Increasing deer populations can be controlled through manipulatingharvest limits or season length. While such actions often result in benefitsto hunters, both motorists and the agricultural sector also benefit as alower deer population leads to fewer incidences of harmful human-deerencounters. Traditional recreation demand models are often employed toexamine the welfare implications of changes in daily hunting bag limits.Studies measuring the effects of changes in season length, however, arenoticeably absent from the literature. This study uses a nested randomutility model to examine hunter choice over site and season selection toderive the values of changes in season length.
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Schwabe, K.A., Schuhmann, P.W., Boyd, R. et al. The Value of Changes in Deer Season Length: An Application of the Nested Multinomial Logit Model. Environmental and Resource Economics 19, 131–147 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011121503549
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