Participation Preferences Regarding Domestic Waste Management in Rural China: Influences of Institutional Trust and Household Differentiation

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  • YUAN Yalin
    College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University
  • CHEN Zhiyu
    College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University
  • YABE Mitsuyasu
    Laboratory of Environmental Economics, Division of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University
  • MA Ying
    College of Economics and Management, Xi’an Shiyou University
  • KONG Rong
    College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University

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Broad and sustainable public participation are the basis of successful domestic waste management (DWM). However, households’ participation preferences have not been fully analyzed; the current study addresses this gap. Using data from a survey of Chinese rural households, we applied multinomial logit models to explain how institutional trust influenced rural households’ participation preferences in DWM under household differentiation. The results show that institutional trust and household differentiation have a significant impact on households’ participation preferences. Specifically, institutional trust promotes households’ preferences for labor and capital and capital only participation methods. Household participation method preferences differ based on households’ characteristics. However, lower–differentiation households with lower–educated members, more permanent residents, and fewer migrated members preferred labor only, followed by labor and capital and capital only methods, while higher–differentiation households preferred not to participate. Given the disappointing performance of implemented policies in enhancing the participation of households thus far, it may be time to cultivate household’s trust in institutions and explore differentiated participation methods such as labor and capital, capital only, and labor only.

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