Effects of norms and opportunity cost of time on household recycling

Land Economics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 501-516

  Halvorsen, Bente ^a  

^a STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCENTIVE; MODELING; RECYCLING;

EID: 48749117883     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.84.3.501     Document Type: Article

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