Bucciol, Alessandro; Montinari, Natalia; Piovesan, Marco - 2011
This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit … the exogenous variation in the waste management policies experienced during the years 1999-2008 by the 95 municipalities … increase by 12.3% the sorted-total waste ratio. This increase reflects a change in the behavior of households, who keep …