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independent and combined effects of clean water and effective sewerage systems on under-five mortality. Our case is Massachusetts …, 1880 to 1920, when authorities developed a sewerage and water district in the Boston area. We find the two interventions …
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infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the urban poor are … the water and sewer system. In nineteenth-century New York, subsidies also proved insufficient and were largely replaced …
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Poor water quality and sanitation are leading causes of mortality and disease in developing countries. However … usage. This paper estimates the impact of an integrated water and sanitation improvement program in rural India that … provided household-level water connections, latrines, and bathing facilities to all households in approximately 100 villages …
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and water and (ii) explore the adoption of energy saving technologies. Viewed in its totality, this work suggests that … influence the use of energy and water. For academics, the studies reviewed provide a deeper understanding of individual behavior … blueprint outlining ways to combine insights from neo-classical and behavioral economics to manage energy/water demand and …
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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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We study the extent to which collusion can explain the under-provision of clean sanitation technologies in developing countries. Using desludging services in Dakar as a case-study, we document that prices are 66% higher in areas where prices are likely coordinated by a large trade association,...
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In the U.S., occupational licensing is more prevalent in the public sector than in the private sector, but the influence of occupational regulation for public sector workers has not been analyzed in detail. Our study initially examines the probability of a licensed worker selecting into the...
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We test whether occupational licensing undercuts a key goal of digital marketplaces-- to increase social surplus by increasing the effectiveness of customer search. Our setting is a large online marketplace in the $500B home services industry where a platform converts customer search into sales...
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We provide an in-depth study of short-term rental (STR) regulation in Chicago. While many municipalities choose between outright bans or laissez-faire strategies concerning STR activities, Chicago pioneered a middle-ground ordinance, enabling the market to exist with limitations and...
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