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Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions
Ashraf, Nava - 2016
Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the urban poor are often unwilling to pay for the costs of that piping....
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Do Property Rights Alleviate the Problem of the Commons? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights
Ayres, Andrew B. - 2019
Property rights are widely prescribed for addressing overextraction of common pool resources, yet causal evidence of their effectiveness remains elusive. We develop a model of dynamic groundwater extraction to demonstrate how a spatial regression discontinuity design exploiting a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480212
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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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Water Markets : Australia's Murray-Darling Basin and the US Southwest
Grafton, R. Quentin - 2010
, market structure and government regulation. We show that rights are more clearly defined and trading more common in Australia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462853
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Water, Water, Everywhere : Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities
Cutler, David - 2005
development of local public finance. Specifically, we highlight the importance of municipal bond market growth as a facilitator of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467589
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Toilets Can Work : Short and Medium Run Health Impacts of Addressing Complementarities and Externalities in Water and Sanitation
Duflo, Esther - 2015
Poor water quality and sanitation are leading causes of mortality and disease in developing countries. However, interventions providing toilets in rural areas have not substantially improved health, likely because of incomplete coverage and low usage. This paper estimates the impact of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457147
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The Role of Leasing under Adverse Selection
Hendel, Igal - 1998
behavior in the car market. We show that a social planner can use leasing contracts to improve welfare but they are imperfect … tools; they cannot generally achieve first best while other mechanisms can. We also show that a producer with market power … can benefit from leasing contracts for two reasons: better pricing of the option of keeping the used good, and market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472232
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The Rise in Old Age Longevity and the Market for Long-Term Care
Lakdawalla, Darius - 1998
the demand and suppoly for labor-intensive care. Many economists have argued that aging will raise the market demand for … long-term care, and hence price and quantity through classic market effects. We argue that the direct effect of aging is to … lower the demand for market care by incresing the supply of home production. By influencing the length of frail lifetimes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472261
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Market Potential, Increasing Returns, and Geographic Concentration
Hanson, Gordon H. - 1998
approximates Harris' (1954) market-potential function. The estimation results show how far demand linkages extend across space and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472379
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Measuring the Intensity of Competition in Export Markets
Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 1995
This paper develops an approach to measuring the intensity of competition in international markets. The method measures the degree of 'outside' competition faced by exporters located in one source country from firms located outside the source country. We use the elasticity of price and quantity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473651