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Can Small Incentives Have Large Effects? The Impact of Taxes versus Bonuses on Disposable Bag Use

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  1. Cala, Petr & Havranek, Tomas & Irsova, Zuzana & Matousek, Jindrich & Novak, Jiri, 2022. "Financial Incentives and Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Economics Evidence," CEPR Discussion Papers 17680, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  2. Ishimura, Yuichi, 2022. "The effects of the containers and packaging recycling law on the domestic recycling of plastic waste: Evidence from Japan," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 201(C).
  3. Antinyan, Armenak & Corazzini, Luca, 2025. "Breaking the bag habit: Testing interventions to reduce plastic bag demand," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 228(C).
  4. Paul J. Ferraro & J. Dustin Tracy, 2022. "A reassessment of the potential for loss-framed incentive contracts to increase productivity: a meta-analysis and a real-effort experiment," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 25(5), pages 1441-1466, November.
  5. Tatiana Homonoff & Lee‐Sien Kao & Javiera Selman & Christina Seybolt, 2022. "Skipping the Bag: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Disposable Bag Regulation," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 41(1), pages 226-251, January.
  6. Víctor González‐Jiménez, 2024. "Incentive contracts when agents distort probabilities," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 15(3), pages 607-653, July.
  7. Sungeun Yoon & Lisa House & Zhifeng Gao, 2025. "Environmental policy behavioral spillovers: The impact of California's single‐use carryout bag ban on the use of unregulated single‐use plastics," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 47(1), pages 372-393, March.
  8. Congiu, Luca & Botta, Enrico & Zoli, Mariangela, 2025. "Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).
  9. Luca Congiu & Ivan Moscati, 2022. "A review of nudges: Definitions, justifications, effectiveness," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 36(1), pages 188-213, February.
  10. Buckley, Penelope & Roussillon, Béatrice & Teyssier, Sabrina, 2025. "Loss and gain framing to encourage repeated real-effort provision: An experiment," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 79(3).
  11. Cabrera, José María & Caffera, Marcelo & Cid, Alejandro, 2021. "Modest and incomplete incentives may work: Pricing plastic bags in Uruguay," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
  12. Lehe, Lewis J. & Devunuri, Saipraneeth, 2022. "Large Elasticity at Introduction," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
  13. Cabrera, José María & Caffera, Marcelo & Cid, Alejandro, 2020. "Small Incentives May Have Large Effects: The Impact of Prices on the Demand for Plastic Bags," MPRA Paper 100178, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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  15. Younsung Kim & Chanho B. Oh & Sunho C. Oh & Tarun Sivanandan & John M. Small, 2024. "Identifying the Determinants of Recycling Rates in the US: A Multi-Level Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(23), pages 1-13, December.
  16. Antinyan, Armenak & Corazzini, Luca, 2023. "Breaking the Bag Habit: Testing Interventions to Reduce Plastic Bag Demand in a Developing Country," Cardiff Economics Working Papers E2023/7, Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section.
  17. Brandon Lehr, 2025. "Optimal Social Security with Loss Aversion," Public Finance Review, , vol. 53(1), pages 62-93, January.
  18. Armenak Antinyan & Luca Corazzini, 2021. "Take me with you! Economic Incentives, Nudging Interventions and Reusable Shopping Bags: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial," Working Papers 2021:08, Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari".
  19. Daniel Reck & Arthur Seibold, 2022. "The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence," CESifo Working Paper Series 9999, CESifo.
  20. Yu-Kai Huang & Richard T. Woodward, 2022. "Spillover Effects of Grocery Bag Legislation: Evidence of Bag Bans and Bag Fees," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 81(4), pages 711-741, April.
  21. Felix Reichel, 2025. "Political Interventions to Reduce Single-Use Plastics (SUPs) and Price Effects: An Event Study for Austria and Germany," Papers 2510.15617, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2026.
  22. Ho, Thong Quoc & Nie, Zihan & Alpizar, Francisco & Carlsson, Fredrik & Nam, Pham Khanh, 2022. "Celebrity endorsement in promoting pro-environmental behavior," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 198(C), pages 68-86.
  23. Kosfeld, Michael, 2019. "The Role of Leaders in Inducing and Maintaining Cooperation: The CC Strategy," IZA Discussion Papers 12540, IZA Network @ LISER.
  24. Anna Esslinger & Katharina Pfeil & Lars P. Feld, 2024. "Asymmetric Labor Supply Responses to Taxation," CESifo Working Paper Series 11317, CESifo.
  25. Taylor, Rebecca L.C., 2019. "Bag leakage: The effect of disposable carryout bag regulations on unregulated bags," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 254-271.
  26. Mortimer, Duncan & Harris, Anthony & Wijnands, Jasper S. & Stevenson, Mark, 2021. "Persistence or reversal? The micro-effects of time-varying financial penalties," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 188(C), pages 72-86.
  27. Netta Barak‐Corren & Yael Kariv‐Teitelbaum, 2021. "Behavioral responsive regulation: Bringing together responsive regulation and behavioral public policy," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(S1), pages 163-182, November.
  28. Hong Thi Thu Nguyen, 2025. "Predicting the Determinants of Generation Z’s Readiness to Adopt Circular Economy for Plastics in Vietnam," Circular Economy and Sustainability, Springer, vol. 5(1), pages 505-527, February.
  29. Daniel Reck & Arthur Seibold, 2023. "The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2023_450, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
  30. Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), 2025. "Study on behavioural economics for efficient regulation and supervision," Colección Estudios de Mercado E/CNMC/002/23_ENG, Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC).
  31. Antinyan, Armenak & Corazzini, Luca, 2021. "Money does it better! Economic incentives, nudging interventions and reusable shopping bags: Evidence from a natural field experiment," Cardiff Economics Working Papers E2021/29, Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section.
  32. Hosni, Hanin & Zhao, Shuoli & Woods, Tim, 2025. "Incentivizing Local and Eco-Friendly Milk Purchases: A Field Experiment," 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO 361166, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  33. Pratt, Bryan, 2023. "A fine is more than a price: Evidence from drought restrictions," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
  34. Rebecca L. C. Taylor, 2022. "It's in the bag? The effect of plastic carryout bag bans on where and what people purchase to eat," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 104(5), pages 1563-1584, October.
  35. Cerruti, Davide & Daminato, Claudio & Filippini, Massimo, 2023. "The impact of policy awareness: Evidence from vehicle choices response to fiscal incentives," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 226(C).
  36. Chunzhou Mu & Shiko Maruyama, 2024. "An Incentive Program with Almost no Incentive: Overlooked Benefits of Pay for Performance," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 100(331), pages 491-512, December.
  37. Naritomi, Joana & Nyamdavaa, Tsogsag & Campbell, Stephanie, 2025. "Enlisting consumers in tax enforcement: a policy review," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 127223, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  38. Laura Cornelsen & Matthew Quaife & Mylene Lagarde & Richard D. Smith, 2020. "Framing and signalling effects of taxes on sugary drinks: A discrete choice experiment among households in Great Britain," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(10), pages 1132-1147, October.
  39. Ravi Vora & Guglielmo Zappala, 2025. "Endogenous Green Preferences," CESifo Working Paper Series 11857, CESifo.
  40. Rain Wuyu Liu & Taylor Ann Foerster & Jie Zhuang, 2025. "Bagging a Greener Future: Social Norms Appeals and Financial Incentives in Promoting Reusable Bags Among Grocery Shoppers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(9), pages 1-28, May.
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