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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico
Atkin, David - 2015
supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of the microdata allows us to estimate a general expression for the gains … large and significant welfare gains for the average household that are mainly driven by a reduction in the cost of living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022592
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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 the population to switch from backyard wells to less convenient drinking water sources that had a higher risk of fecal contamination. We find evidence of unintended health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889052
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The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil : a Quantile Panel Data Approach
Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Khan, Shakeeb; Timmins, … - 2021
We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water in Brazil is highly correlated with other observable and unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235632
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985203
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Comparing Price and Non-Price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation
Olmstead, Sheila M. - 2013
Urban water conservation is typically achieved through prescriptive regulations, including the rationing of water for particular uses and requirements for the installation of particular technologies. A significant shift has occurred in pollution control regulations toward market-based policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753563
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964906
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068296
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Down or Out : Assessing the Welfare Costs of Household Investment Mistakes
Calvet, Laurent E. - 2013
This paper investigates the efficiency of household investment decisions in a unique dataset containing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754400
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Welfare Analysis of Tax Reforms Using Household Data
King, Mervyn - 2010
The paper discusses a methodology for calculating the distribution of gains and losses from a policy change using data for a large sample of households. Estimates are based on the equivalent income function, which is money metric utility defined over observable variables. This enables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760068
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Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures : How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2010
We study the effect of welfare reform, broadly defined to include social policy changes in the 1990s, on the material well-being and expenditure patterns of poor single-mother families. Our research suggests that welfare reform did not affect total expenditures in households headed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760606