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Estimating Willingness To Pay For Curbside Recycling With Detection And Mitigation Of Hypothetical Bias, Arthur J. Caplan Jan 2002

Estimating Willingness To Pay For Curbside Recycling With Detection And Mitigation Of Hypothetical Bias, Arthur J. Caplan

Applied Economics Faculty Publications

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Household Valuation Of Curbside Recycling, David M. Aadland, Arthur J. Caplan Jan 2000

Household Valuation Of Curbside Recycling, David M. Aadland, Arthur J. Caplan

Applied Economics Faculty Publications

This paper looks at the willingness to pay for and participate in a curbside recycling program based on a survey of 401 residents in Ogden, Utah. Modifying the Cameron and James (1987) econometric model to fit ordered-interval data, we estimate that the mean willingness to pay for curbside recycling is $2.05 per month, and that 72% of the residents would willingly participate in such a program. Furthermore, females, young people, college-educated, those currently recycling without monetary reward, those regarding recycling as beneficial to the community and nation, and those with relatively high incomes are willing to pay the most for …


Winners And Losers In A World With Global Warming: Noncooperation, Altruism, And Social Welfare, Arthur J. Caplan, Christopher J. Ellis, Emilson C. D. Silva May 1999

Winners And Losers In A World With Global Warming: Noncooperation, Altruism, And Social Welfare, Arthur J. Caplan, Christopher J. Ellis, Emilson C. D. Silva

Applied Economics Faculty Publications

In this paper, global warming is an asymmetric transboundary externality which benefits some countries or regions and harms others. We use a simple two-country model to analyze the effects of global warming on resource allocations, the global-warming stock, and national and global welfare.