2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Panel Data Analysis of Sustainable Reduction Effect of Unit-Based Pricing Using Panel Data Analysis
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21730206
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Applied economics
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| Research Institution | Soka University |
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Principal Investigator |
USUI Takehiro Soka University, 経済学部, 准教授 (80364222)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
諏訪 竜夫 山口大学 (80507161)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | 家庭ごみ有料化の長期効果 / リバウンド / 資源ごみ / 分別促進 / パネルデータ分析 / 多変量サンプルセレクションモデル |
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| Research Abstract |
The Japanese Ministry of Environment has been encouraging unit-based pricing, and city municipalities have introduced this policy in the hope of achieving the emission reduction effect, the reallocation effect of recycling, and financial benefits. However, several years after the introduction of unit-based pricing, some municipalities have reported an increase in waste emissions as compared to the emissions in the first year that the policy was introduced. We determine whether or not the rebound effect is statistically significant by using data on Japanese cities' waste emission obtained by panel data analysis under unit-based pricing. The estimation results reveal that although long-run reduction eventually erodes the price elasticity of non-recyclable waste, the level of erosion is very trivial. The estimation results of the recyclable waste provide significant evidence of the long-term learning effect of sorting waste.
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