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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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Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality

Keiser, David - 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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Vulnerability and Clientelism

Bobonis, Gustavo J. - 2017

This study argues that economic vulnerability causes citizens to participate in clientelism, a phenomenon with various pernicious consequences. We employ a randomized control trial that reduced household vulnerability through a development intervention: constructing residential water cisterns in...

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Watersheds in Child Mortality : The Role of Effective Water and Sewerage Infrastructure, 1880 to 1920

Alsan, Marcella; Goldin, Claudia - 2015

We explore the first period of sustained decline in child mortality in the U.S. and provide estimates of the 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...

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Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment?

Haushofer, Johannes - 2019

Behavioral constraints may explain part of low demand for preventive health products. We test the effects of two light-touch psychological interventions on water chlorination and related health and economic outcomes using a randomized controlled trial among 3750 women in rural Kenya. One...

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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 …

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Transaction Costs : Valuation Disputes, Bi-Lateral Monopoly Bargaining and Third-Party Effects in Water Rights Exchanges. The Owens Valley Transfer to Los Angeles

Libecap, Gary D. - 2021

Between 1905 and 1934 over 869 farmers in Owens Valley, California sold their land and associated water rights to Los Angeles, 250 miles to the southwest. This agriculture-to-urban water transfer increased Los Angeles' water supply by over 4 times, making the subsequent dramatic growth of the...

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