This study investigates the impact of the central government's policy designed to encourage municipalities to recycle plastic waste in Japan. Using an instrumental variable approach, we examine whether the Containers and Packaging Recycling Law (CPRL), which includes policies such as subsidising...

We examine how forest cover change can affect agricultural productivity using household panel data and remote sensing data on forest change. The focus is on rural Indonesia, where intensive biodiversity loss is occurring from deforestation while agriculture is the main industry. We estimate an...

This study seeks to explore the effect of a policy intervention designed to simplify curbside recycling standards for plastic waste separation on recycling volume and quality. We employ a causal impact analysis based on a Bayesian structural time series approach to estimate the effect of...