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Explaining the variation in household recycling rates across the UK (2011)
Journal Article
Abbott, A., Nandeibam, S., & O'Shea, L. (2011). Explaining the variation in household recycling rates across the UK. Ecological economics : the journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics, 70(11), 2214-2223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.06.028

Household waste recycling rates vary significantly both across and within regions of the UK. This paper attempts to explain the variation by using a new data set of waste recycling rates and policy determinants for all of the UK's 434 local authoriti... Read More about Explaining the variation in household recycling rates across the UK.

Procyclical government spending: patterns of pressure and prudence in the OECD (2011)
Journal Article
Abbott, A., & Jones, P. (2011). Procyclical government spending: patterns of pressure and prudence in the OECD. Economics letters, 111(3), 230-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2011.02.009

This paper tests for differences in the cyclicality of government spending across functional categories. Evidence from 20 OECD countries suggests that procyclicality is more likely in smaller functional budgets, but capital spending is more likely to... Read More about Procyclical government spending: patterns of pressure and prudence in the OECD.