"The effect of temperature on outdoor recreation activities: evidence f" by Pengfei Liu
 

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

2022

Department

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Abstract

This paper uses over 30 million individual-level trips in federal recreation locations to investigate the impact of short-term temperature shocks on outdoor recreation activities. Our results show that in the short term, a 1°C temperature increase during the last six months increases the total trip duration by 1.197 d (or a 4.12% increase) and the total number of trips by 0.472 (or a 5.44% increase) at the zipcode-month level. The positive effect is primarily driven by the increased number of trips and more in-state travel. We find that the impact of temperature on the number of recreation trips generally increases under a higher temperature. When the monthly temperature is below 5°C the temperature increase will reduce the number of trips as individuals in low-temperature regions are likely to reduce travel when the temperature gets warmer.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Environmental Research Letters

Volume

17

Issue

4

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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