Recreational hunting in the United States has traditional and cultural importance, and generates substantial economic benefits to individual hunters themselves. This paper conducts a meta-analysis of existing nonmarket valuation estimates for hunting in the United States to explore sources and implications of variation and uncertainty in these estimates. A multi-level meta-regression model is estimated to forecast point estimates for different hunting contexts, as well as to construct bounds of uncertainty around these estimates. The results and discussion provide insight to practitioners who need to conduct or understand benefit transfer, as well as those particularly interested in the value of hunting in the U.S.

在美国，休闲狩猎具有传统和文化意义，并为单个猎人自身带来了可观的经济利益。本文对美国现有的非市场估值估计进行了荟萃分析，以探索这些估计中的变化和不确定性的来源和含义。估计了一个多层次的元回归模型，以预测不同狩猎环境下的点估计，并围绕这些估计构建不确定性的界限。结果和讨论为需要进行或了解利益转移的从业人员以及对美国狩猎价值特别感兴趣的从业人员提供了见识。