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Pro-environmental behavior and public goods Location: Auditorium P: Finn Kydland Session Chair: Roberto Balado-Naves, University of Oviedo | |
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Zeroing in on the Zero Waste City Universitaet Leipzig, Germany Reducing municipal waste is a challenge for urban policymakers around the world. We construct a novel dataset of municipal-level waste from Italy between 2010 and 2020 to study the role of membership in the Zero Waste Europe Initiative. Employing machine learning techniques, we analyze the interplay of socio-economic, geographical, and institutional factors that motivate cities to become Zero Waste Europe Initiative adopters. Controlling for these factors in our matching procedure, we then examine to what extent participating in the Zero Waste initiative can act as a commitment device for cities. In a difference-in-differences setting, we compare the trajectory of the 314 towns that joined the Zero Waste initiative at different points in time to a control group. Our preliminary analysis suggests that membership in the Zero Waste program, in our sample period, does not yet lead to a decrease in a city's waste per capita level. However, we observe a significantly higher share of separately collected waste in Zero Waste cities which is both statistically and economically significant. | |