Thomas C. Kinnaman, Ph. D.
Phone:
(570) 523-0118
Email: kinnaman@bucknell.edu Office: (570) 577-3465
Fax: (570) 577-3451
Education:
Ph.D., Economics,
Thesis title: "Garbage, Recycling,
and Economic Incentives: Three Related Essays"
Dissertation advisors: Don Fullerton and
Ed Olsen.
M.A., Economics,
B.A., Decision Science,
Professional Experience:
Associate Professor, Department of
Economics,
Assistant Professor, Department of
Economics,
Instructor, Department of Economics,
University of Virginia, 1992-1994.
Teaching Assistant, Department of
Economics, University of Virginia, 1989-1992.
Published Edited Volumes:
Kinnaman, Thomas C., ed. 2003. The Economics of Residential Solid Waste
Management,
Published Articles:
Kinnaman, Thomas C. 2006.
“Twenty Years of Promoting Residential Recycling: What Has Been Learned?”
forthcoming, The Journal of Economic
Perspectives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Presentations:
“Household Behaviour and Environmental
Policy: Empirical Evidence in the area
of Waste Management and Recycling,” Discussant, OECD,
“Student Life at
Bucknell: Two Econometric Applications,” Department of Economics Faculty
Colloqium,
“Efficient Solid Waste
Management Policy,”
“Optimal Waste
Management: Was Pigou Right?,” ICREI/CAEE 5th International
Conference on Property Rights, Economics & Environment,
“The Effects of State Policies on Solid Waste
and Recycling,” Department of Mineral Economics, Penn State University, State College, PA, October, 2001 (invited),
and
“The Efficiency of
Curbside Recycling: A Benefit-Cost Analysis,” Western Economic Association
International Annual Conference,
“Garbage and Recycling
with Endogenous Local Policy,” National Bureau of Economic Research Summer
Institute,
“Garbage and Recycling
in Communities with Curbside Recycling and Unit-Based Pricing,” Brown Bag
Series in Labor Economics, The
“Garbage, Recycling, and
Economic Incentives,” Annual Meetings of the National Tax Association,
“Household Responses to
the Start of a Price-Per-Bag,” ASSA Meetings,
“How a Fee Per-Unit
Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model With Heterogeneous Households,”
Public Economics Workshop,
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
Grants, Awards and Fellowships:
Curricular and Instructional Development
Grant,
Curricular and Instructional Development
Grant,
Honorable Mention in the National Tax
Association’s Dissertation Contest, 1995
Governor's Fellowship, University of
Virginia, 1990-91, 1991-92
Academic Enhancement Fellowship,
Named to “Who’s Who Among
Teaching Experience:
Economic Principles
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
Environmental Economics
Natural Resource Economics
Law and Economics
Mathematical Economics
Econometrics