Environmental and Pro-Social Norms: Evidence from 30 Countries

Torgler, Benno; Frey, Bruno S.; Wilson, Clevo

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“…While the recycling literature has paid considerable attention to environmental preferences and conformity as drivers of cooperation, elsewhere in the environmental economics literature, political preferences have started to emerge as promising predictors of household participation in public‐good schemes (Kahn, ; Torgler and García‐Valiñas, ; Dupont and Bateman, ; Costa and Kahn, ). Political interest, for instance, tends to be associated with higher environmental concern (Wakefield et al ., ; Torgler et al ., ) and right‐wing ideology tends to be associated with lower willingness‐to‐pay for environmental goods, for environmental taxes and for environmental causes (see Dupont and Bateman, for a succinct review). A similar question has recently emerged in political science, investigating whether political preferences spill from voting to real‐world behaviours (Gerber and Huber, ), including contributions to public goods (Bolsen et al ., ) and recycling specifically.…”

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Household Cooperation in Waste Management: Initial Conditions and Intervention

Briguglio

2016

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Abstract. The need to divert municipal solid waste away from landfill is an important policy goal in many countries, and the possibility that households cooperate in this endeavor, an oft pursued solution. There is a vast body of theoretical and empirical work which provides insights on the kind of household conditions and intervention that may stimulate such cooperation. This paper reviews the relevant literature in environmental and behavioural economics and synthesizes it around two themes: (1) initial conditions conducive to cooperation (including household motives and constraints and, by association, the demographics of cooperative households) and (2) intervention that may stimulate (or suppress) cooperation. Three distinct attributes of intervention are examined in particular detail, namely convenience, charges and communication. The paper concludes by providing a succinct set of cues for policy-makers and scheme-operators wishing to stimulate household cooperation in waste management, and by identifying gaps in the literature which merit further research.

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Household Cooperation in Waste Management: Initial Conditions and Intervention

Briguglio

2016

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development: Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects

Farzin

2007

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SummaryThis paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal development path can also be sustainable. It argues that the general "zero-net-aggregate-investment" condition for an optimal development path to be sustainable in the sense of the maximin criterion of intergenerational justice is too demanding to be practical, especially in the context of developing countries. The maximin criterion of sustainability may be more appealing to the rich advanced industrial countries, but is too costly and ethically unreasonable for developing nations as it would act as an intergenerational "poverty equalizer". The paper suggests that a compromise development policy that follows the optimal growth approach but adopts certain measures to mitigate the intergenerational and intragenerational welfare inequalities may better serve these countries. Some of the principal elements of such a policy are highlighted.

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Impact of Cultural Tourism Upon Urban Economies: An Econometric Exercise

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Environmental and Pro-Social Norms: Evidence from 30 Countries

Cited by 19 publications

References 65 publications

Household Cooperation in Waste Management: Initial Conditions and Intervention

Household Cooperation in Waste Management: Initial Conditions and Intervention

Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development: Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects

Impact of Cultural Tourism Upon Urban Economies: An Econometric Exercise

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