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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 … accounting approach to investigate both the contribution played in the past by water availability in constraining China's growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105455
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954451
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The Behavioralist as Policy Designer : The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets
Hahn, Robert W. - 2016
We explore Tinbergen's fundamental insight that policymakers need at least as many policy instruments as targets. We extend this idea using a large natural field experiment in water resource management. We use social comparisons and loss-framed messages to help achieve two goals of our partner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978095
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866179
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947661
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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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Institutional Path Dependence in Climate Adaptation : Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation"
Libecap, Gary D. - 2013
Katharine Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," published in March 1911 in the first issue of the American … and irrigation districts that emerged in the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094342
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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets : Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
Grafton, Quentin - 2014
particular the Limarí Valley); (3) China (in particular, the North); (4) South Africa; and (5) the western United States. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069511
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Factions and Political Competition
Persico, Nicola - 2010
This paper presents a new model of political competition where candidates belong to factions. Before elections, factions compete to direct local public goods to their local constituencies. The model of factional competition delivers a rich set of implications relating the internal organization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760206
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Changing the Price of Pork : The Impact of Local Cost Sharing on Legislators' Demand for Distributive Public Goods
Del Rossi, Alison F.; Inman, Robert P. - 2021
The provision of public services through national legislatures gives legislators the chance to fund locally-beneficial public projects using a shared national tax base. Nationally-financed, local public goods will be purchased at a subsidized price below marginal cost and may be inefficiently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248405