对废物征税对环境的间接影响

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107247

Tommaso Colussi , Matteo Romagnoli , Elena Villar

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摘要

本文调查了针对废物产生的环境政策的间接影响，即按扔付费（PAYT）计划。利用意大利市政当局新建立的纵向数据集和堆叠差异设计，我们发现，除了减少未分类废物的产生（直接效应）外，PAYT的采用对政策不直接针对的亲环境行为产生了积极影响（间接效应）。调查证据表明，PAYT增加了接受治疗的居民对环境问题的重视程度，这反过来又加强了他们的环保态度。这些发现表明，目标狭隘的环境政策可以通过培养环境意识而导致更广泛的行为改变。

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The indirect environmental effects of taxing waste

This paper investigates the indirect effects of environmental policies that target waste production, i.e., pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) schemes. Using a newly constructed longitudinal dataset of Italian municipalities and a stacked difference-in-differences design, we find that PAYT adoption generates positive effects on pro-environmental behaviors not directly targeted by the policy (indirect effects), in addition to reducing unsorted waste production (direct effect). Survey evidence shows that PAYT increases the salience of environmental issues among treated residents, which in turn strengthens their pro-environmental attitudes. These findings suggest that narrowly targeted environmental policies can lead to broader behavioral changes by fostering environmental awareness.

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.