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Do Property Rights Alleviate the Problem of the Commons? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights
Ayres, Andrew B. - 2019
their effectiveness remains elusive. We develop a model of dynamic groundwater extraction to demonstrate how a spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480212
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A Watershed Moment : The Clean Water Act and Infant Health
Flynn, Patrick; Marcus, Michelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The Clean Water Act (CWA) significantly improved surface water quality, but at a cost exceeding the estimated benefits. We quantify the effect of the CWA on a direct measure of health and incorporate health benefits into a cost-benefit analysis. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616600
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US Water Pollution Regulation over the Last Half Century : Burning Waters to Crystal Springs?
Keiser, David A. - 2019
In the half century since the founding of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, public and private U.S. sources have spent nearly $5 trillion ($2017) to provide clean rivers, lakes, and drinking water, or annual spending of 0.8 percent of U.S. GDP in most years. Yet over half of rivers and...
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Automated Enforcement of Irrigation Regulations and Social Pressure for Water Conservation
West, Jeremy D.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Pratt, Bryan E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This study evaluates two interventions for residential water conservation. Comparing households across an enforcement algorithm's cutoff using a regression discontinuity design, we find that automated irrigation violation warnings cause substantial water conservation but also shift some...
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Water, Health and Wealth
Ashraf, Nava - 2017
Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently, the water supply fails in the developing world, especially when users don't pay the marginal cost of water. This paper uses the timing of frequent, unexpected water service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453904
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Do Earmarks Target Low-Income and Minority Communities? Evidence from US Drinking Water
Keiser, David A.; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Molitor, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The quality and inequality of US drinking water investments have gained attention after recent environmental disasters in Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere. We compare the formula-based targeting of subsidized loans provided under the Safe Drinking Water Act with the targeting of congressional...
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Market Design for Surface Water
Ferguson, Billy A.; Milgrom, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Many proposed surface water transfers undergo a series of regulatory reviews designed to mitigate hydrological and economic externalities. While these reviews help limit externalities, they impose substantial transaction costs that also limit trade. To promote a well-functioning market for...
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Games and Resources
Harstad, Bård - 2012
This article presents a sequence of simple and related models to analyze the strategic use of natural resources. Game theory is the natural tool for such an analysis, whether the resource is private or publicly owned, whether it is renewable or exhaustible, whether the game is static or dynamic,...
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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets : Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
Grafton, R. Quentin - 2010
The paper provides an integrated framework to assess water markets in terms of their institutional underpinnings and the three 'pillars' of integrated water resource management: economic efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability. This framework can be used: (1) to benchmark different...
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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice
Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as … consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical estimates of how farmers respond to changes in groundwater costs … variation in the price of electricity, a key input into groundwater extraction, we find that farmers are very price responsive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510584