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that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …
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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
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similar hydropower potential. Until mid-century, the availability of cheap local power from hydroelectric dams conveyed an …
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Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water …). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to provoke conflict. Using grid-cell data for Africa and central … water mass declines. We measure water mass anomalies based on changes in Earth's gravity field recorded by GRACE and link …
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In order to analyse the consequences of uncertainty for prices and efficiency in a hydropower system, we apply a two …-period model with uncertainty in water inflow. We study three different market structures, perfect competition, monopoly and … oligopoly and stress the importance of the shape of the demand function under different distributions of water inflow. The …
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Choice experiments, a stated preference valuation method, are proposed as a tool to assign monetary values to environmental externalities during the ex-ante stages of environmental impact assessment. This case study looks at the impacts of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity’s Toro 3...
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We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …
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services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …
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productivity from adoption of genetically modified soybeans and look at externalities across municipalities sharing the same water … externality effects of glyphosate use on populations distant from the original locations of use, but receiving water from these …
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We examine the effect of the introduction of uniform water-charging for aquifer management and provide evidence using a … survey-based choice experiment of agricultural water users in rural Tunisia. Theoretically, we show that the implementation … small landholders. Empirically, we find that resistance to the introduction of an effective water-charging regime is …
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