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The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management

Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1999

This paper provides a broad overview of recent trends in solid waste and recycling, related public policy issues, and the economics literature devoted to these topics. Public attention to solid waste and recycling has increased dramatically over the past decade both in the United States and in...

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Garbage and Recycling in Communities with Curbside Recycling and Unit-Based Pricing

Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1997

This paper estimates the impact of a user fee and a curbside recycling program on garbage and recycling amounts, allowing for the possibility of endogenous policy choices. Previous estimates of the effects of these policies could be biased if unobserved variables such as local preference for the...

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The Case for a Two-Part Instrument : Presumptive Tax and Environmental Subsidy

Fullerton, Don - 1997

usefulness of the tax-subsidy combination, we review conceptual considerations regarding its implementation and practical …

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Economics of the Generation and Management of Municipal Solid Waste

Beede, David N. - 1995

This paper examines the generation and management of solid waste (MSW) through the lens of economics. We estimate that the global burden of MSW amounted to 1.3 billion metric tons in 1990, or 0.67 kilograms of waste per person per day. Industrial countries account for a disproportionate share of...

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How a Fee Per-Unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model with Heterogeneous Households

Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1994

This paper develops a utility maximizing model of household choice among garbage disposal, recycling, and littering. The impact of a user fee for garbage collection is modelled for heterogeneous households with different preferences for recycling. The model explains (1) why some households...

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"Household Responses for Pricing Garbage by the Bag,"

Fullerton, Don - 1994

This paper estimates household reaction to the implementation of unit-pricing for the collection of residential garbage … that a household chooses each method available to reduce its garbage. In response to the implementation of this unit …

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Garbage, Recycling, and Illicit Burning or Dumping

Fullerton, Don - 1993

Additional solid waste disposal imposes resource and environmental costs, but most residents still pay no additional fee per marginal unit of garbage collection. In a simple model with garbage and recycling as the only two disposal options, we show that the optimizing fee for garbage collection...

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Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health

Currie, Janet - 2011

We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states. Our "difference in differences" approach compares birth...

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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

Courtemanche, Charles - 2018

dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …

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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB

Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013

Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …

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