urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …, infrastructure, and the livability of cities. The high share of urbanization occurring in the informal sector suggests that …

This paper examines whether countries consider the welfare of other nations when they make water development decisions …, supporting the view that countries free ride in exploiting water resources. We find weak evidence that international water …

understood. Yet, there is little evidence comparing the effectiveness of these instruments, especially when considering water … resource management. We exploit a rich panel of residential water consumption to examine heterogeneous responses to both price … to reduce consumption among households who generally are large consumers of water. However, prescriptive policies such as …

Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water … has been obtained with relatively little increase in the physical volume of water. In this paper, we use a growth … accounting approach to investigate both the contribution played in the past by water availability in constraining China's growth …

Urban water conservation is typically achieved through prescriptive regulations, including the rationing of water for …-based and prescriptive approaches to water conservation, where prices have rarely been used to allocate scarce supplies. The … analysis emphasizes the emerging theoretical and empirical evidence that using prices to manage water demand is more cost …

production in five semi-arid western states. We assemble county-level data on dams and other major water infrastructure … analyze the impact of water infrastructure investments on crop mix and yields in affected counties relative to similarly …-endowed counties that lack such infrastructure. We find that water infrastructure smoothes agricultural crop production and increases …