Public Preferences for Pasture Landscapes and the Role of Scale Heterogeneity

Henning Schaak, Oliver Mußhoff

Published: 14.07.2021  〉 Volume 70 (2021), Number 3, 182-191  〉 Resort: Articles 
Submitted: 18.12.2020   〉 Feedback to authors after first review: 16.02.2021   〉 Accepted: 05.07.2021

ABSTRACT

The paper investigates the influence of different model specifications for interpreting the results of discrete choice experiments when investigating heterogeneous public landscape preferences. Comparing model specifications based on the Mixed Multinomial Logit and the Generalized Multinomial Logit Model reveals that the parameter estimates appear qualitatively comparable. Still, a more in-depth investigation of the conditional estimate distributions of the sample show that parameter interactions in the Generalized Multinomial Logit Model lead to different interpretations compared to the Mixed Multinomial Logit Model. This highlights the potential impact of common model specifications in the results in landscape preference studies.

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DR. HENNING SCHAAK
Department of Economics
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Box 7013, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
e-mail: henning.schaak@slu.se
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