Thomas C. Kinnaman, Ph. D.

 

340 St. Catherine St.                                                                            Department of Economics

Lewisburg, PA 17837                                                                          Bucknell University

Phone: (570) 523-0118                                                                        Lewisburg, PA  17837

Email: kinnaman@bucknell.edu                                                 Office:  (570) 577-3465

                                                                                                            Fax:      (570) 577-3451

 

Education:

 

Ph.D., Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.  22901, 1994.

            Thesis title: "Garbage, Recycling, and Economic Incentives: Three Related Essays"

Dissertation advisors: Don Fullerton and Ed Olsen.

 

M.A., Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.  22901, 1991.

 

B.A., Decision Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.  22030, 1987.

 

Professional Experience:

           

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bucknell University, 2000 - present.

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bucknell University, 1994- 2000.

Director, Bucknell in Barbados Semester Program, 2002 and 2006.

Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Virginia, 1992-1994.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Virginia, 1989-1992.        

 

Submitted Research Articles

 

“The Costs of Municipal Curbside Recycling and Waste Collection” with Robert A. Bohm, David H. Folz, and Michael J. Podolsky.  Submitted for review to Environmental and Resource Economics.

 

“Optimal Solid Waste Policy with Centralized Recycling Opportunities.” Submitted for review to Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

 

Published Edited Volumes:

 

Kinnaman, Thomas C., ed. 2003. The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

 

Fullerton, Don and Thomas C. Kinnaman, eds. 2002. The Economics of Household Garbage and Recycling Behavior. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers.

 

Published Articles:

 

Kinnaman, Thomas C. forthcoming. “The Costs of Municipal Curbside Recycling and Waste Collection.” Contemporary Economic Policy.

 

Kinnaman, Thomas C. forthcoming. “Solid Waste Management in the Caribbean.” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies.

 

Kinnaman, Thomas C. 2008.  “Response.” Journal of Economic Perspectives. 22, pp. 244-245.

 

Kinnaman, Thomas C. 2006. “Examining the Justification for Residential Recycling.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives. 20:4, fall, pp.219-232.

 

Kinnaman, Thomas. C. 2005. “Why do Municipalities Recycle?” Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy. 5:1. http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/topics/vol15/iss1/art5.

 

Kinnaman, Thomas C. 2002. “Explaining Household Demand for the Collection of Solid Waste and Recycling,” in The Economics of Household Garbage and Recycling Behavior.  Don Fullerton and Thomas C. Kinnaman, eds. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers, pp. 144-152.

 

Kinnaman, Thomas C. 2000. “Explaining the Growth in Municipal Recycling Programs: The Role of Market and Non-Market Factors.” Journal of Public Works Management and Policy. 5:1, pp. 37-51.

 

Kinnaman, Thomas C. and Don Fullerton. 2000. “Garbage and Recycling with Endogenous Local Policy.” Journal of Urban Economics. 48:3, pp. 419-442.

 

Kinnaman, Thomas C. and Don Fullerton. 2000. “The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management,” in The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2000/2001. Henk Folmer and Tom Tietenberg, eds. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers, pp. 100-147.

 

Fullerton Don and Thomas C. Kinnaman. 1996. “Household Responses To Pricing Garbage By The Bag.” American Economic Review. 86:4, pp. 971-984.

 

Kinnaman, Thomas C. 1996. “Garbage, Recycling, and Economic Incentives.” in Proceedings of the Eighty-Eighth Annual Conference on Taxation, National Tax Association, pp. 169-174.

 

Fullerton, Don and Thomas C. Kinnaman. 1995. “Garbage, Recycling, and Illicit Burning or Dumping.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 29:1, pp. 78-91.

 

Kinnaman, Thomas C. and Don Fullerton. 1995. “How a Fee Per-Unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model With Heterogeneous Households,” in Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World.  Lans Bovenberg and Sijbbren Cnossen, eds. Boston: Kluwer Publishers, pp. 135-159.

 

 

Presentations:

 

“The Economics of Solid Waste Disposal and Recycling,” Fall 2006 Seminar Series, Department of Economics, University of Tennessee, December, 2006 (invited).

 

“Household Behaviour and Environmental Policy:  Empirical Evidence in the area of Waste Management and Recycling,” Discussant, OECD, Paris, June 2006 (invited).

 

“Student Life at Bucknell: Two Econometric Applications,” Department of Economics Faculty Colloqium, Bucknell University, February, 2005.

 

“Efficient Solid Waste Management Policy,” University of Alberta, Waste: The Social Context, Edmonton, May, 2005.

 

“Optimal Waste Management: Was Pigou Right?,” ICREI/CAEE 5th International Conference on Property Rights, Economics & Environment, Aix-en-Provence, France, June, 2004 (invited).

 

“The Effects of State Policies on Solid Waste and Recycling,” Department of Mineral Economics, Penn State University, State College, PA, October, 2001 (invited), and Pennsylvania Economic Association Annual Conference, Williamsport, PA, June, 2001.

 

“The Efficiency of Curbside Recycling: A Benefit-Cost Analysis,” Western Economic Association International Annual Conference, San Diego, July, 1999, and Faculty Colloquium, Bucknell University, September, 1998 (invited), and Workshop in Economic Policy and Public Finance, University of Chicago, June 1998 9invited), and Pennsylvania Economics Association, Shippensburg University, June, 1997.

 

“Garbage and Recycling with Endogenous Local Policy,” National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, August 1997 (invited).

 

“Garbage and Recycling in Communities with Curbside Recycling and Unit-Based Pricing,” Brown Bag Series in Labor Economics, The Ohio State University, March 1996, and ASSA Meetings, San Francisco, January 1996 (invited).

 

“Garbage, Recycling, and Economic Incentives,” Annual Meetings of the National Tax Association, San Diego, October 1995 (invited).

 

“Household Responses to the Start of a Price-Per-Bag,” ASSA Meetings, Boston, January 1994, and National Bureau of Economic Research – Public Economics Meeting, Cambridge, MA, October 1993 (invited).

 

“How a Fee Per-Unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model With Heterogeneous Households,” Public Economics Workshop, University of Virginia, November 1993.

 

 

Refereed Manuscripts for:

 

The American Economic Review

The American Journal of Agricultural Economics

The Journal of Contemporary Economic Policy

The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

The Journal of Environmental Management

The Journal of Public Economics

Land Economics

Resource and Energy Economics         

The Southern Journal of Economics

The United States Environmental Protection Agency

 

Grants, Awards and Fellowships:

 

Curricular and Instructional Development Grant, Bucknell University, Summer 1999

Curricular and Instructional Development Grant, Bucknell University, Summer 1997

Honorable Mention in the National Tax Association’s Dissertation Contest, 1995

Governor's Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1990-91, 1991-92

Academic Enhancement Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1990, 1992

Named to “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” (2001)

Named to “Who’s Who in America” (2006)

 

 

Teaching Experience:

           

Economic Principles

Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

Environmental Economics

Natural Resource Economics

Law and Economics

Mathematical Economics

Econometrics

Economic Headlines of the 1980’s