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Water Availability as a Constraint on China's Future Growth
Medianu, Dana - 2012
Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more has been obtained with relatively little increase in...
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The Behavioralist as Policy Designer : The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets
Hahn, Robert W. - 2016
water use. Our results show that seemingly related behavioral instruments can affect different household decisions. By …
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Us Water Pollution Regulation Over the Last Half Century : Burning Waters to Crystal Springs?
Keiser, David - 2019
In the half century since the founding of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, public and private U.S. sources have spent nearly $5 trillion ($2017) to provide clean rivers, lakes, and drinking water, or annual spending of 0.8 percent of U.S. GDP in most years. Yet over half of rivers and...
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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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Happiness on Tap : Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
Devoto, Florencia - 2014
We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household … subset was offered a simplified procedure to purchase a household connection on credit (at a zero percent interest rate … located fairly close to their homes), household connections did not lead to any improvement in the quality of the water …
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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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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets : Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
Grafton, 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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Designing Nonlinear Price Schedules for Urban Water Utilities to Balance Revenue and Conservation Goals
Wolak, Frank - 2016
This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … that accounts for the impact of monthly weather variation, the amount of vegetation on the household's property, and … customer-level heterogeneity in demand due to household demographics. The model utilizes US Census data on the distribution of …
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Willingness to Pay for Low Water Footprint Food Choices During Drought
Krovetz, Hannah - 2017
In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for more efficient water usage in the production of four California agricultural products. We implement an internet survey choice experiment for avocados, almonds, lettuce, and...
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