Modeling Land Use Decisions with Aggregate Data

• DOI: 10.2307/1244459
• Publication Date: 2006-07-05T21:08:18Z
• Authors: Douglas J. Miller; Andrew J. Plantinga
• Keywords: Parametric model; Aggregate data

Abstract In this article, we develop land use models to study the impact of changes in decision variables on soil erosion or other environmental outcomes. From an underlying behavioral model, maximum entropy recover a parametric model county‐level shares as function such output prices, input costs, and quality. The statistical may be extended estimate subcounty incorporate data from federal surveys. We procedure analyze livestock inventories rates three Iowa counties.