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.

Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 2009

Director, Bucknell in Barbados Semester Study-Abroad Program, 2002 and 2006.

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

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 (revise and resubmit status) to Resources Conservation and Recycling.

“Optimal Solid Waste Policy with Centralized Recycling Opportunities.” Submitted for review to National Tax Journal.

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. “Solid Waste Management in the Caribbean.” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies.

Kinnaman, Thomas C. 2009. “Landfill Closure and Housing Values.” Contemporary Economic Policy. 17:4, July, pp. 380-89.

Kinnaman, Thomas C. 2009. “The Economics of Municipal Solid Waste Management” (editorial). Waste Management. 29:10, October, pp. 2615-1617.

Kinnaman, Thomas C. 2008. “Comments: Elbert Dijkgraaf and Raymond Gradus, Thomas Kinnaman; and a Correction." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22:2, pp. 243–244.

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:

“Waste and the Economy” Opening Lecture, 2009 Landfill Symposium, Sardinia, Italy, October 2009 (invited).

“The Economics of Climate Change” Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, July 2009 (invited).

“Two Empirical Investigations in the Market for Solid Waste,” Department of Economics, Kyoto University, May, 2009 (invited), and Department of Economics, Toyama University (invited), June 2009, and Department of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University (Tokyo-invited), July 2009.

“Recent Research in the Economics of Solid Waste,” Conference on the Economics of
Waste and the Environment, Fukushima, Japan, June, 2009 (invited).

“Optimal Solid Waste Policy with Centralized Recycling Opportunities,” Department of Economics, Kobe University, April 2009 (invited).

“The Costs of Municipal Curbside Recycling and Waste Collection,” Western Economics Association International Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan, March, 2009.

“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 5^th 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 (invited), 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.

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 Areas:

Economic Principles, Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Law and Economics, Mathematical Economics, Econometrics.