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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico
Atkin, David - 2015
supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of the microdata allows us to estimate a general expression for the gains … large and significant welfare gains for the average household that are mainly driven by a reduction in the cost of living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457491
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Throwing the Baby out with the Drinking Water : Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh
Buchmann, Nina - 2019
The 1994 discovery of arsenic in groundwater in Bangladesh prompted a massive public health campaign that led 20% of the population to switch from backyard wells to less convenient drinking water sources that had a higher risk of fecal contamination. We find evidence of unintended health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479680
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The Value of Piped Water and Sewers : Evidence from 19th Century Chicago
Coury, Michael; Kitagawa, Toru; Shertzer, Allison; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We estimate the impact of piped water and sewers on property values in mid-19th century Chicago. The cost of sewer construction depends sensitively on imperceptible variation in grade, and such variations in grade delay water and sewer service to part of the city. This delay provides...
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The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil : A Quantile Panel Data Approach
Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti - 2008
We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water in Brazil is highly correlated with other observable and unobservable...
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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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Designing Nonlinear Price Schedules for Urban Water Utilities to Balance Revenue and Conservation Goals
Wolak, Frank A. - 2016
This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … that accounts for the impact of monthly weather variation, the amount of vegetation on the household's property, and … customer-level heterogeneity in demand due to household demographics. The model utilizes US Census data on the distribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456175
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Comparing Price and Non-Price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation
Olmstead, Sheila M. - 2008
Urban water conservation is typically achieved through prescriptive regulations, including the rationing of water for particular uses and requirements for the installation of particular technologies. A significant shift has occurred in pollution control regulations toward market-based policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464499
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Happiness on Tap : Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
Devoto, Florencia - 2011
We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household … subset was offered a simplified procedure to purchase a household connection on credit (at a zero percent interest rate … located fairly close to their homes), household connections did not lead to any improvement in the quality of the water …
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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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Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality
Keiser, David A. - 2017
Since the 1972 U.S. Clean Water Act, government and industry have invested over $1 trillion to abate water pollution, or $100 per person-year. Over half of U.S. stream and river miles, however, still violate pollution standards. We use the most comprehensive set of files ever compiled on water...
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