Household Responses to Price Incentives for Recycling: Some Further Evidence
利用波特兰家庭数据，研究垃圾处理费如何影响家庭回收率和垃圾产生量，发现容器大小选择不受价格影响，但给定容器下家庭会通过增加回收来避免超量收费。
This paper investigates the role of waste disposal service fees and household characteristics in determining recycling rates and waste generation. Using individual household data from Portland, Oregon, we model a multistage household decision process regarding waste generation and recycling effort under a block pricing system, including the choice of container size and reduced-form demand equations for recyclables, non-recyclables, and recycling rate. The choice of container size is not affected by the price of waste disposal services, but within a given container size, households respond to a price increase by increasing recycling to avoid charges for waste generation above contracted volumes.