Recycling efforts recovered about 55 million tons of municipal solid waste through approximately 9,000 curbside recycling programs and about 10,000 drop-off centers in 1996 (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1998). We investigate economic impacts of this activity using state-level data...

In residential solid waste management, the United States has a great deal of experience in applying incentive-based environmental policy in the form of unit pricing. This study examines the two most common forms of unit pricing practiced in the United States. It offers intuition and empirical...

The protection of children's health has recently become a mandated priority for federal policy makers. To assess many of the regulations that affect children's health, policy makers need estimates of the monetary value of reducing mortality risks to children. Although the economics literature...