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We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise … water utility service areas …
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Water use and electricity use, which generate negative environmental externalities, are susceptible to a second … other household members. If individual usage is imperfectly observed (as is typical for water and electricity) and family … argument and test its prediction that intrahousehold free-riding dampens price sensitivity. We do so in the context of water …
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This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … household demographics in the utility's service territory to recover the impact of these factors on water demand. An index of … models are used to compute the distribution of utility-level water demand and revenues for any possible price schedule …
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This study evaluates two interventions for residential water conservation. Comparing households across an enforcement … substantial water conservation but also shift some consumption from regulated to unregulated hours within the week. In contrast …, we show using data from a randomized experiment with the same customers that normative Home Water Reports reduce water …
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