Time for Waste, Waste of Time? Assessing Heterogeneous Values of Time Spent Recycling Using a Latent-Class Rank-Ordered Logit Approach

Olivier Beaumais () and Dominique Prunetti
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Abstract: 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 and moral norms or warm-glow, reveals heterogeneous values of saving time from recycling (VSTR). The predictions of our model are being tested, extending the basic latent-class logit model to the latent-class ranked ordered model and using data from a discrete choice experiment on waste management conducted in 2008 in Corsica. We find VSTR clearly heterogeneous across individuals, ranging from 8% to 76% of one's income.

Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2017-03
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Published in Review of Economics, March 1999, pages 1-23

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Working Paper: Time for waste, waste of time ? Assessing heterogeneous values of time spent recycling using a latent-class rank-ordered logit approach (2017)
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Working Paper: Time for Waste, Waste of Time? Assessing Heterogeneous Values of Time Spent Recycling Using a Latent-Class Rank-Ordered Logit Approach (2016)
Working Paper: Time for Waste, Waste of Time? Assessing Heterogeneous Values of Time Spent Recycling Using a Latent-Class Rank-Ordered Logit Approach (2016)
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