PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Halvorsen, Bente
TI  - Effects of Norms and Opportunity Cost of Time on Household Recycling
AID  - 10.3368/le.84.3.501
DP  - 2008 Aug 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 501--516
VI  - 84
IP  - 3
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/84/3/501.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/84/3/501.full
SO  - Land Econ2008 Aug 01; 84
AB  - Social and moral norms and the opportunity cost of time will affect household recycling efforts. A model is developed to describe how norms affect the recycling decision through feelings of self-respect, guilty conscience, and warm-glow, as well as respect in, and sanctions from, the community. We find that the opportunity cost of time has a significant negative effect on household recycling. All indicators of warm-glow, social, and moral norms increase household recycling efforts. We find no evidence of crowding-out, neither when recycling is perceived as mandatory, nor when economic incentives are introduced in the form of a differentiated garbage fee. (JEL C21, H42)