This paper aims to investigate the driving factors of the Landfill Disposal Rate (LDR) on Italian territory and attempts to provide some policy recommendation to reduce it.Hence,we implement a two-step analysis.First,we perform a cluster analysis (CA) to 103 Italian provinces on the LDR driving factors.Second,in the light of the CA results,we implement a semi-parametric estimator in order to identify two components of the LDR distribution: the effects of the coefficients and the effects of the characteristics.The paper documents a considerable heterogeneity among the 103 Italian provinces under consideration.This emphasizes that policy makers cannot consider a unique policy recommendation to reduce landfill.Rather policy interventions must be differentiate according to such a heterogeneity.
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