RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Revenue and Distributional Consequences of Alternative Outdoor Recreation Pricing Mechanisms: Evidence from a Micropanel Data Set
JF Land Economics
JO Land Econ
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 478
OP 494
DO 10.3368/le.98.3.090721-0107
VO 98
IS 3
A1 Yongjie Ji
A1 David A. Keiser
A1 Catherine L. Kling
A1 Daniel J. Phaneuf
YR 2022
UL http://le.uwpress.org/content/98/3/478.abstract
AB This article uses a system of Poisson demand equations to examine the revenue potential associated with uniform, site-differentiated, and income-differentiated recreational access fees for more than 130 lakes in the state of Iowa. We also consider optimal fees in the spirit of Ramsey (1927) and demonstrate how the new insights from Banzhaf and Smith (2022) can empirically inform discussions of user fees. We find that user fees could be used to raise revenue for the maintenance of recreation infrastructure, but that they are generally regressive. Fees differentiated by income groups can attenuate (but not eliminate) this regressivity.