Research Article

Residential Environment Induced Preference Heterogeneity for River Ecosystem Service Improvements: A Comparison between Urban and Rural Households in the Wei River Basin, China

Table 6

Mixed logit model results.

VariablesAll respondentsUrban residentsRural residents
(pooled dataset) (subgroup) (subgroup)

Nonrandom parameter
Cost−0.0421 (0.0079)−0.0213 (0.0032)−0.0321 (0.0050)
Mean (standard errors) of random parameters
Forest coverage0.4090 (0.1036)0.2822 (0.0652)0.1966 (0.0908)
Water quality−3.7431 (0.7648)−2.5160 (0.4421)−2.4641 (0.6179)
Water quantity0.4715 (0.1183)0.3441 (0.0825)0.2589 (0.0951)
Erosion area0.1610 (0.0442)0.1000 (0.0268)0.1052 (0.0425)
Erosion intensity−1.0143 (0.2249)−0.7877 (0.1355)−0.4738 (0.1879)
Landscape0.1347 (0.0296)0.0646 (0.0155)0.1213 (0.0261)
Tour0.1115 (0.0358)0.0493 (0.0247)0.1439 (0.0368)
Standard deviation of random parameters
Forest coverage 1.0367 (0.2373)0.5546 (0.1051)0.8733 (0.1894)
Water quality 6.3408 (1.0858)3.5856 (0.4384)4.6882 (0.6362)
Water quantity 1.1997 (0.2552)0.5862 (0.1105)0.8576 (0.1816)
Erosion area 0.4963 (0.0978)0.3124 (0.0577)0.3401 (0.0843)
Erosion intensity 1.6762 (0.3697)0.6448 (0.2883)1.7565 (0.3276)
Landscape 0.1775 (0.0381)0.0500 (0.0301)0.1333 (0.0381)
Tour0.4512 (0.0861)0.2586 (0.0494)0.2966 (0.0660)
Model statistics
Log-likelihood (LL) −2355.8853−1158.7675−1197.8596
Pseudo-0.11670.09990.1169
Number of obs. 900427473

Note: , , and denote significance at 10%, 5%, and 1% level, respectively.