Attributing Benefits to Voluntary Programs in EPA’s Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery: Challenges and Options

This paper reviews the economic justification for voluntary environmental programs to derive defensible measures of their positive social outcomes. We consider ideal experimental and statistical designs to detect and attribute benefits. We also explore a set of more practical approaches to benefit attribution that take into account the data gaps and statistical challenges that often make more rigorous approaches infeasible.

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Year of publication:	2011-03-03
Authors:	Boyd, James ; Manson, Cynthia
Subject:	voluntary programs \| cost–benefit assessment \| program evaluation

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	Q53 - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste ; Q58 - Government Policy ; L15 - Information and Product Quality; Standardization and Compatibility ; O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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