@article{Song:61791,
      recid = {61791},
      author = {Song, Feng and Lupi, Frank and Kaplowitz, Michael D.},
      title = {Valuing Great Lakes Beaches},
      address = {2010},
      number = {320-2016-10548},
      series = {Selected Paper},
      pages = {31},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {This study aims to estimate the recreational use values of  Great Lakes beaches using a two-level nested logit Random  Utility Model. The choice set contains all 594 public Great  Lakes beaches in Michigan. Beach sites located in the same  Great Lakes water body are arranged into a nest. The trip  data were obtained from a 2006 online survey using a  web-panel of Michigan adults accessed through Survey  Sampling International (SSI). The variables that affect the  amount of utility derived from a particular site are the  travel cost and site quality variables, which include beach  length, days of beach advisory, and days of beach closure  in 2006. We report the economic loss of permanently losing  an individual beach site or a group of beach sites as well  as benefits of reducing beach advisories and closures  through water quality improvement along Michigan's Great  Lakes shoreline.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/61791},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.61791},
}