| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28499 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28499 |
| Skipping the Bag: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Disposable Bag Regulation | |
| Tatiana Homonoff; Lee-Sien Kao; Javiera Selman; Christina Seybolt | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-03-01 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Regulation of goods associated with negative environmental externalities may decrease consumption of the targeted product, but may be ineffective at reducing the externality itself if close substitutes are left unregulated. We find evidence that plastic bag bans, the most common disposable bag regulation in the US, led retailers to circumvent the regulation by providing free thicker plastic bags which are not covered by the ban. In contrast, a regulation change that replaced the ban with a small tax on all disposable bags generated large decreases in disposable bag use and overall environmental costs. Our results suggest that narrowly-defined regulations (like plastic bag bans) may be less effective than policies that target a more comprehensive set of products, even in the case when the policy instrument itself (a tax rather than a ban) is not as strict. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28499 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586171 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tatiana Homonoff,Lee-Sien Kao,Javiera Selman,et al. Skipping the Bag: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Disposable Bag Regulation. 2021. |
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| w28499.pdf（1248KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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