Mimic Behavior in Home Waste-waters Management

Philippe Polomé (1)

1 GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne

We present results of a household-level survey on behaviors regarding refuses in the home waste-waters network. Interpreting survey results in a panel-data logit results show that most socio-economic and public good-related respondent's characteristics do not play a significant role in explaining choices to discard in the home waste-waters network. The only significant regressor, apart from the nature of the refuse itself, is, by far, the belief that the respondent has about her neighbors' and relatives' discarding behavior. We use Dong's endogeneity test [7] to show that that regressor is not endogenous. We argue that these results may be used by policymakers to reduce undesirable refuses in the home waste-waters network by means of properly designed nudges.

Mots clés: Behavior; Endogeneity; Nonparametric; Panel data; Public good; Reputation; Waste-waters

Domaines: Economies et finances

Philippe Polomé. Mimic Behavior in Home Waste-waters Management. 2013. ⟨halshs-00855051⟩