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Time for Waste, Waste of Time? Assessing Heterogeneous Values of Saving Time from Recycling

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  • Olivier Beaumais
  • Dominique Prunetti

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Although the opportunity cost of time spent recycling has long been recognized as a key determinant of household recycling participation, very few empirical studies have attempted to provide estimates of it. In this paper, we propose a model of household recycling that, while including pecuniary and non pecuniary motives for decisions, such as social or moral norms, reveals heterogeneous values of saving time from recycling (VSTR). The predictions of our model are tested using data from a discrete choice experiment on waste management conducted in 2008 in Corsica and estimating a latent-class rank-ordered logit model. We find VSTR clearly heterogeneous across individuals, ranging from 8 % to 76 % of one?s income.

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  • Olivier Beaumais & Dominique Prunetti, 2018. "Time for Waste, Waste of Time? Assessing Heterogeneous Values of Saving Time from Recycling," Revue d'économie politique, Dalloz, vol. 128(5), pages 915-934.
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    1. Olivier Beaumais & Apolline Niérat, 2019. "Exploring in-depth joint pro-environmental behaviors: a multivariate ordered probit approach," Working Papers hal-02361390, HAL.
    2. Marian Garcia-Valiñas & Fernando Arbués & Roberto Balado-Naves, 2023. "Assessing environmental profiles: An analysis of water consumption and waste recycling habits," Efficiency Series Papers 2023/02, University of Oviedo, Department of Economics, Oviedo Efficiency Group (OEG).
    3. Giuseppe Di Liddo & Annalisa Vinella, 2021. "Centralized standards and local taxation in municipal waste management," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 92(4), pages 603-619, December.

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