Reputation and household recycling practices: Field experiments in Costa Rica

Alpízar, Francisco; Gsottbauer, Elisabeth

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.04.003

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“…Peers also positively influence the intensity of green consumption (Welsch and Kühling, 2016), positively impact the guiding of recycling behavior (Arı and Yılmaz, 2016) and influence the adoption of GHG mitigation of their neighbors (Babutsidze and Chai, 2018). Concerns about one's own reputation also influence individuals PEB (Alpízar and Gsottbauer, 2015). Another form of social influence is e.g.…”

Section: Contextual Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist

Blankenberg

Alhusen

2019

SSRN Journal

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This paper provides a systematic review of current economic and psychological studies on the determinants of PEB published up to 2017. Our normative understanding and study of PEB can benefit from an integral review of these research traditions. Consequently, we identify various determinants of PEB that can be classified into four major types: • Socio-demographic factors (personal capabilities) • Attitudinal (psychological) factors • Habits • Contextual factors (individual, social and institutional) Our paper shows that to understand the complex workings of PEB, it is no longer viable to study its determinants individually, but researchers must rather consider an interplay of these factors. In addition to the introduction of this intersectional approach, we show that measuring PEB in an adequate way requires the consideration of more than one or two distinct behaviors (multiple items) as the impact of the determinants differs depending on the analyzed behavior. PEB itself can also be distinguished into types of PEB (private vs public sphere behaviors, environmental activism). Additionally, our review gives an overview of the typical methodological approaches and systematizes the questions used to measure PEB. By combining results from economics and psychology, this work offers a starting point for a more intersectional and interdisciplinary understanding of PEB, and a guide for further empirical investigations.

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Section: Contextual Factorsmentioning

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On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist

Blankenberg

Alhusen

2019

SSRN Journal

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“…The richer country produces a clean good while the latter, the poorer, specializes in the production of a brown good. 4 Each country is populated by a …rm. Each …rm exports its product thereby facing an iceberg cost, which is lower the more liberalized trade is.…”

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Green Consumption and Relative Preferences in a Vertically Differentiated International Oligopoly

Ceccantoni

Tarola

Zanaj

2018

Ecological Economics

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We consider an open to trade two-country model with two vertically di¤erentiated goods and relative preferences in consumption. These preferences are such that consumers obtain satisfaction from their own consumption in relation to the consumption of the others. Product di¤erentiation is along an environmental quality dimension and countries are asymmetric in average income. Analyzing the equilibrium con…guration, we …nd that, when relative preferences are relegated to the poorer country producing the brown good, the process of trade liberalization can favor the polluting …rm, while penalizing the green rival. In these circumstances, trade liberalization can be environmentally detrimental. At the opposite, trade liberalization always favors the green producer when relative preferences are observed in both countries, with possibly positive e¤ects on global emissions.

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“…Gender is a research topic, as in a study on inequality in food security in Kenya (Kassie et al , 2013). In addition, gender is given attention in research design; for example, an experiment on recycling decisions in Costa Rica solicited as subjects ‘the head of household activities ’, which elicited 85 per cent women (Alpízar and Gsottbauer, 2013). To carry forward this focus on gender, the Sida-funded PhD programme gives preference to female applicants; as a result, half of the PhDs in the past decade have been earned by women.…”

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The Environment for Development Initiative: lessons learned in research, academic capacity building and policy intervention to manage resources for sustainable growth

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This article reviews the history of the Environment for Development (EfD) initiative, its activities in capacity building and policy-oriented research, and case studies at its centres in Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania. EfD promotes research-based policies to manage natural resources as engines of development. Since 1991, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has provided funding for students from developing countries to earn a PhD at the Environmental Economics Unit (EEU) of the University of Gothenburg. Returning home, these economists face institutional and academic gaps that limit the adoption of research-based policies. In response, the first EfD centre was founded in 2004, and six more followed. Research focuses on agriculture, climate, fisheries, parks, wildlife, forestry, energy and policy design. This has yielded 200 peer-reviewed articles. Successful policy outcomes depend on relationships with policy makers, community involvement in livelihood strategies, strengthened institutional support, interdisciplinary approaches, and dissemination of research results.

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Reputation and household recycling practices: Field experiments in Costa Rica

Cited by 36 publications

References 43 publications

On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist

On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist

Green Consumption and Relative Preferences in a Vertically Differentiated International Oligopoly

The Environment for Development Initiative: lessons learned in research, academic capacity building and policy intervention to manage resources for sustainable growth

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