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Three empirical essays on environmental economics.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three empirical essays on environmental economics./
Author:	Zhu, Yuexia.
Description:	160 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Paul Jakus.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-03A.
Subject:	Economics, Agricultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3306452
ISBN:	9780549532040

Three empirical essays on environmental economics.
Zhu, Yuexia.

Three empirical essays on environmental economics. - 160 p.

Adviser: Paul Jakus.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Utah State University, 2007.

This dissertation covers three different topics in environmental economics. The first essay examines the incentives that influence a household's recycling behavior. The essay provides a comprehensive review of the household recycling literature, and pulls together a diverse literature to develop a model that allows for empirical tests of both moral and monetary motivations of recycling. Data consists of information gathered from over 4000 households in 40 different U.S. cities. Several probit models are employed for model estimation. Empirical tests indicate that moral motivations are more important than monetary motivations in influencing recycling behavior.

ISBN: 9780549532040Subjects--Topical Terms:

626648
Economics, Agricultural.

Three empirical essays on environmental economics.
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520 $a This dissertation covers three different topics in environmental economics. The first essay examines the incentives that influence a household's recycling behavior. The essay provides a comprehensive review of the household recycling literature, and pulls together a diverse literature to develop a model that allows for empirical tests of both moral and monetary motivations of recycling. Data consists of information gathered from over 4000 households in 40 different U.S. cities. Several probit models are employed for model estimation. Empirical tests indicate that moral motivations are more important than monetary motivations in influencing recycling behavior.
520 $a The second essay aggregates households at the state level and examines choices made by households facing a particular environmental circumstance, extended drought. It involves testing the effect of drought on fishing license purchase behavior. By using annual data provided by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, the modeling is done in two steps. The first step tests the effect of drought on the initial choice to purchase a license, with the second step testing the effect on choice among three different licenses. A proportional probil model is employed to estimate the drought effect on initial license purchase behavior. An almost ideal demand system is applied to estimate the drought effect on choices among types of fishing licenses. Empirical results show that drought does impact choices at both steps.
520 $a The third essay studies whether public release of a firm's toxic emissions information affects its stock returns. Essentially it serves as a tool to examine the effectiveness of the EPA's toxic release inventory (TRI) program. The model tests whether the released information has any impact on firms' stock market performance, and whether these firms respond by reducing subsequent toxic emissions. We use TRI information released in year 2000 for the chemical industry, which has been included in the TRI since its inception, and from the electric utilities industry, which was being released for the first time. Empirical tests demonstrate insignificant effects of the TRI data releases in terms of affecting the stock market performances of responsible firms in both industries. Subsequent emissions releases were changed by some firms in the utilities industry, but no firms in the chemical industry.
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