David Vaught. After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley

While historians have paid a great deal of attention to theminers who flocked to California during the Gold Rush, theyhave generally ignored those Argonauts who failed to strikeit rich, but nevertheless remained in the regions surroundingthe goldfields. In his ambitious, richly detailed, but ultimatelyuneven community history, David Vaught directs his attentionto those neglected failures, specifically migrants drawn fromeastern and Midwestern farm communities, pointing out that "[f]arfrom vanishing into the landscape, these farmers, still in theprime of their     

Microeconometric models of tourists'' destination choice

The focus of this paper is on the microeconometric analysis of spatial choice in a cross section. Nested multinomial logit models are used to analyze the determinants of individual choice among destinations and vacation activities. Cramer and Ridder's likelihood ratio test for pooled alternatives in multinomial logit models is sequentially applied in order to determine the adequate aggregation level of the mutually exclusive alternatives in the choice set. The specification test suggested by Chesher and Santos Silva (1992) is used to investigate whether or not the IIA proposition is fulfilled within the assumed choice subsets.