TY  - JOUR
AU  - Levinson,Arik
TI  - NIMBY Taxes Matter: State Taxes and Interstate Hazardous Waste Shipments
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6314
PY  - 1997
Y2  - December 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6314
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6314.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Arik Levinson
Department of Economics ICC 571
Georgetown University
3700 O St., NW
Washington, DC 20057
Tel: 202/687-5571
Fax: 202/687-6102
E-Mail: aml6@georgetown.edu
AB  - This paper examines the extent to which state taxes have inhibited interstate transport of" hazardous waste for disposal in the United States.  It uses panel data from the Toxics Release" Inventory (TRI) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) on interstate" shipments of waste, and analyzes them in conjunction with a set of state characteristics hazardous waste disposal taxes and disposal capacity.  It employs four approaches to deal with" the potential endogeneity of taxes and unobserved heterogeneity among states: a "natural" experiment fixed-effects model reinterpretation of the coefficient on the distance among" states.  The paper concludes that hazardous waste taxes are a statistically and economically" significant deterrent to interstate waste transport, that taxes are being imposed by large-capacity" and large-import states, and that therefore these taxes have had a decentralizing effect on the" national pattern of hazardous waste transport and disposal.
ER  -