Pro-environmental interventions and behavioral spillovers: Evidence from organic waste sorting in Sweden
Alacevich C., Bonev P., Söderberg M.
This paper evaluates the behavioral spillover effect of organic waste sorting on households’ waste reduction. We use an administrative household-level dataset on residential waste from a Swedish municipality. To identify the spillover effects, we utilize a natural experiment triggered by the staggered implementation of a policy that introduced home-based organic waste sorting bins. We find a substantial positive spillover effect of waste sorting on waste reduction. The effect, however, disappears over time.