Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192371 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 389
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
The aim of this paper is to quantify the relative importance of motivations based on warm-glow, social and moral norms and cost of time used recycling on household recycling efforts. We also test for crowding-out of intrinsic motivations when recycling is perceived as mandatory. We find that the most important variable increasing household recycling efforts is agreeing that recycling is a pleasant activity in itself, which may be interpreted as a warm-glow effect. The most important variable reducing household recycling is the opportunity cost of time spent recycling. We find no evidence of crowding-out of intrinsic motivation when recycling is perceived as mandatory. On the contrary, we find that governmental legislation increases household recycling efforts on most materials.
Subjects: 
Contingent valuation method
cost of time
household recycling
moral and social norms
ordered probit
simultaneous estimation of discrete- and continuous choice
warm-glow
crowding out.
JEL: 
C20
C35
D12
D60
H42
H79
Q29
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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