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 … makers choose the efficient mix of policy levers to regulate solid waste and recycling activities. Economists have also …

This paper estimates the impact of a user fee and a curbside recycling program on garbage and recycling amounts … policies and the levels of garbage and recycling collected in the community. A simple sequential model of local policymaking is … cross-section of towns without user fees but with and without curbside recycling programs. The combined data set is larger …

This paper develops a utility maximizing model of household choice among garbage disposal, recycling, and littering … recycling. The model explains (1) why some households participate in curbside recycling programs even in the absence of a user …-wide quantities of garbage, recycling, and litter. We show how an increase in the user fee can decrease aggregate recycling …

Economic theory predicts that individual recycling behavior gravitates toward extremes--either diligent recycling or no … recycling at all. Using a nationally representative sample of 3,158 bottled water users, this article finds that this prediction … is borne out for consumer recycling of plastic water bottles. Both water bottle deposits and recycling laws foster …

Classic Big Push industrialization envisions state planners coordinating economic activity to internalize a range of …

Europeans restricted their fertility long before the Demographic Transition. By raising the marriage age of women and …, raising average wages significantly, which in turn facilitated industrialization. We analyze the rise of this first socio …