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Do Environmental Markets Improve on Open Access?Evidence from California Groundwater Rights

Ayres, Andrew - 2019

a model of dynamic groundwater extraction to demonstrate how a spatial regression discontinuity design that exploits a … spatially-incomplete market for groundwater rights recovers a lower bound on the market's net benefit. We apply this estimator … to a major aquifer in water-scarce southern California and find that a groundwater market generated substantial net …

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Identifying the Cost of a Public Health Success : Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh

Pitt, Mark Martin - 2015

We exploit recent molecular genetics evidence on the genetic basis of arsenic excretion and unique information on family links among respondents living in different environments from a large panel survey within a theoretical framework incorporating optimizing behavior to uncover the hidden costs...

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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...

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A Watershed Moment : The Clean Water Act and Birth Weight

Flynn, Patrick; Marcus, Michelle - 2023

The Clean Water Act (CWA) significantly improved surface water quality, but at a cost exceeding the estimated benefits. We quantify the effect of the CWA on a direct measure of health. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we compare birth weight upstream and downstream from wastewater...

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Games and Resources

Harstad, Bård - 2012

This article presents a sequence of simple and related models to analyze the strategic use of natural resources. Game theory is the natural tool for such an analysis, whether the resource is private or publicly owned, whether it is renewable or exhaustible, whether the game is static or dynamic,...

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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets : Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA

Grafton, R. Quentin - 2014

The paper provides an integrated framework to assess water markets in terms of their institutional underpinnings and the three 'pillars' of integrated water resource management: economic efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability. This framework can be used: (1) to benchmark different...

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How Transaction Costs Obstruct Collective Action : Evidence from California's Groundwater

Ayres, Andrew - 2017

groundwater basins using a new dataset to identify factors that influence the adoption of extraction controls. In 309 basins … severely overdrafted. Meanwhile, users in 31 basins have defined groundwater property rights, the most complete solution. We …

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The Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer : Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Climate

Hornbeck, Richard - 2015

, technological improvements made groundwater from the Ogallala aquifer available for irrigation. Comparing counties over the Ogallala … with nearby similar counties, groundwater access increased irrigation intensity and initially reduced the impact of …

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Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer

Hornbeck, Richard - 2012

agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers' access to groundwater. Comparing counties over the Ogallala with …

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Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; … - 2015

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