We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise … water utility service areas …

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 …

theoretical predictions of the model find a counterpart in our empirical analysis of newly coded data on the provision of water …

the passage of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (WRDA'86). We find legislators' chosen water project sizes do … contribute a greater share to the funding of local water projects reduced overall project spending in our sample by 35 percent …