The economic value of curbside recycling as a club good and as a public good: A case study of Morgantown and Monongalia County, West Virginia

IF 0.9 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

American Journal of Economics and Sociology Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI:10.1111/ajes.12575

Julian J. Hwang

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Abstract

In Morgantown, West Virginia, curbside recycling is available to residents who reside within the city limits. However, residents in Monongalia County who reside outside the Morgantown city limits are expected to bring their recyclables to a drop-off site which discourages people from recycling in general. Moreover, there exists a disparity between residents within and outside the Morgantown city limits in terms of rights to have access to curbside recycling. This study presents the economic value of curbside recycling at the County level. Furthermore, the paper presents a framework and empirical analysis that separate the value of the improved program as a club good and the value of the program as a public good, using a survey data from Morgantown and Monongalia County in collaboration with a local waste and recycling service provider.

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路边回收作为俱乐部产品和公共产品的经济价值：西弗吉尼亚州摩根敦和莫农加利亚县的案例研究

在西弗吉尼亚州的摩根敦，居住在城市范围内的居民可以在路边进行回收。然而，莫农加利亚县居住在摩根敦市范围之外的居民则需要将可回收物送到投放点，这在总体上阻碍了人们的回收利用。此外，在使用路边回收的权利方面，摩根敦市辖区内外的居民也存在差距。本研究介绍了路边回收在县一级的经济价值。此外，本文还提出了一个框架和实证分析，通过与当地一家废物和回收服务提供商合作，利用来自摩根敦和莫农加利亚县的调查数据，将改进后的项目作为俱乐部产品的价值与作为公共产品的价值区分开来。

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American Journal of Economics and Sociology Multiple-

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1.90

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) was founded in 1941, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, to encourage the development of transdisciplinary solutions to social problems. In the introduction to the first issue, John Dewey observed that “the hostile state of the world and the intellectual division that has been built up in so-called ‘social science,’ are … reflections and expressions of the same fundamental causes.” Dewey commended this journal for its intention to promote “synthesis in the social field.” Dewey wrote those words almost six decades after the social science associations split off from the American Historical Association in pursuit of value-free knowledge derived from specialized disciplines. Since he wrote them, academic or disciplinary specialization has become even more pronounced. Multi-disciplinary work is superficially extolled in major universities, but practices and incentives still favor highly specialized work. The result is that academia has become a bastion of analytic excellence, breaking phenomena into components for intensive investigation, but it contributes little synthetic or holistic understanding that can aid society in finding solutions to contemporary problems. Analytic work remains important, but in response to the current lop-sided emphasis on specialization, the board of AJES has decided to return to its roots by emphasizing a more integrated and practical approach to knowledge.