Evaluating Voluntary Environmental Programs with Spillover Effects

Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Comparative Perspective

Voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) are institutions for inducing firms to produce environmental goods beyond legal requirements. A comparative perspective on VEPs shows how incentives to sponsor and participate in VEPs vary across countries in ways that reveal their potential and limitations. Our brief survey examines conditions under which VEPs emerge, attract participants, and improve pa...

Evaluating the Social Effects of Environmental Leadership Programs

Evaluating Voluntary Climate Programs in the United States

Despite the growing importance of voluntary programs as tools for environmental management, they have been subject to quite limited evaluation. Program evaluation in the absence of randomized experiments is difficult because the decision to participate may not be random and, in particular, may be correlated with the outcomes. The present study is designed to overcome these problems by gauging h...

Pro-Environmental Spillover

This report presents a review of the literature that underpins the different pathways through which the transition between two pro-environmental behaviours can occur. Its primary aim is to inform the theoretical part of a 2012 linkage project grant application for the Australian Research Council to be submitted by BehaviourWorks Australia. A special emphasis is on research where interventions h...

The Appeal of Voluntary Environmental Programs : Which Firms Participate