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 …

cents per gallon of water saved on average. Moreover, informing consumers about the drought severity increases the WTP for …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 …

resilience to drought. We explored factors influencing farmer's adoption of cover crops and examined the effects of cover crops … Soybean Costs and Returns Report. Incorporating drought occurrence in current year and previous 5 years into our analysis, we … find that previous occurrence of drought did not affect farmers' adoption of cover crops and the effects of cover crops on …

century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has … benefits that exceed costs, although the evidence for surface water pollution regulation is less clear. Fourth, while the …

prediction in an original data set of whether ethnic groups around the world traditionally prayed for rain. We find that prayer …

commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …) competitive commercialization and the eventual replacement of incumbents, we consider a dynamic strategy involving product market … entry before switching to a cooperative commercialization strategy. Empirical evidence from the automated speech recognition …

life cycle consumption into a dynamic macro-level model of overlapping generations in order to investigate the implications … future generations could be made better off if the rate of population growth were lower and the level of old age consumption … policy could be devised to induce a Pareto optimal rate of population growth and distribution of life cycle consumption only …

configuration. For the 632 largest cities in the world we construct panel data describing population, measures of centralization …

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 …