Household Responses to Pricing Garbage by the Bag

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 971-984

  Fullerton, Don ^a   Kinnaman, Thomas C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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