This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … household demographics in the utility's service territory to recover the impact of these factors on water demand. An index of … models are used to compute the distribution of utility-level water demand and revenues for any possible price schedule …

This paper exploits the seasonal and annual changes in marginal prices for water to estimate the price elasticity of … demand by residential households for water. It uses the changes in distributions of water using the census block group levels … in response to changes in marginal prices of water for matched months across years. This strategy reduces the interaction …

We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise … water utility service areas …

Water use and electricity use, which generate negative environmental externalities, are susceptible to a second … other household members. If individual usage is imperfectly observed (as is typical for water and electricity) and family … argument and test its prediction that intrahousehold free-riding dampens price sensitivity. We do so in the context of water …

understood. Yet, there is little evidence comparing the effectiveness of these instruments, especially when considering water … resource management. We exploit a rich panel of residential water consumption to examine heterogeneous responses to both price … to reduce consumption among households who generally are large consumers of water. However, prescriptive policies such as …

identifies causal peer effects in water conservation during the growing season, utilizing variation from consumer migration. We … landscaping underpins the peer effects in water consumption. We also provide evidence that without a price signal, peer effects … are muted, demonstrating a complementarity between information transmission and prices. These results inform water use …

that rationing binds on input use, such that farmers, despite trivial prices for water extraction, use roughly the socially … optimal amount of water on average. The rationing regime is still grossly inefficient, because it misallocates water across …

This paper examines the effect of water-borne lead exposure on infant mortality in American cities over the period 1900 … on infant mortality are identified by variation across cities in water acidity and the types of service pipes that the … water ran through - lead, iron, or concrete - which together determined the extent of lead exposure. Estimates that restrict …

Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water … has been obtained with relatively little increase in the physical volume of water. In this paper, we use a growth … accounting approach to investigate both the contribution played in the past by water availability in constraining China's growth …

Fresh water supplies increasingly are under stress in many parts of the world due to rising populations, higher per … capita incomes and corresponding consumption, greater environmental concerns, and the effects of climate change. Water rights … and markets are part of the institutional menus for responding to these problems. We examine water markets in both …