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Public preferences for improved urban waste management: a choice experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2018

Solomon Tarfasa  and
Roy Brouwer
Solomon Tarfasa
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia
Roy Brouwer*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: rbrouwer@uwaterloo
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Abstract

A discrete choice experiment, aiming to elicit public preferences for improvements in solid waste services, is carefully administered across socioeconomic zones in the city of Hawassa, Ethiopia. Observed and unobserved preference heterogeneity are analyzed using mixed logit choice models. The results show that there exists substantial willingness to pay to increase collection frequency and separate recyclable waste. A new issue is the focus on child labor in the waste management sector. Significant gender effects are found: women are more interested than men in increasing waste collection frequency and value the abolishment of child labor more highly, as do higher income households. As expected, respondents living in wealthier neighborhoods are more likely to pay higher service charges. Education indirectly influences preferences for waste separation. The study provides important insight into the social benefits of public investment decisions to improve the quality of solid waste management services in large cities in Ethiopia.

Keywords

Choice experimentwaste managementchild laborEthiopia
Type
Research Article
Information
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 184 - 197
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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