Date of Award:
8-2012
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Applied Economics
Committee Chair(s)
Arthur Caplan
Committee
Arthur Caplan
Committee
Charles Sims
Committee
Ryan Bosworth
Committee
Don Snyder
Abstract
In this thesis we provide a theoretical framework for a dichotomous-choice contingent valuation survey for plastic and reusable shopping bags and consequential analysis of that data. By using interval regression analysis, a mean willingness to pay for continued use of plastic grocery bags and a mean willingness to accept to use reusable bags for all grocery shopping trips are estimated. The subsidy level was statistically robust while the tax level was not; this led us to the conclusion as cited from previous studies that people are very elastic to a plastic bag tax, and consequently a small tax provides tremendous consumptive declines.
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Recommended Citation
Dunn, Jarod, "Estimating Willingness to Pay for Continued Use of Plastic Grocery Bags and Willingness to Accept for Switching Completely to Reusable Bags" (2012). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 1282.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1282
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This work made publicly available electronically on July 30, 2012.