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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/10012460535
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A National Estimate of Irrigation Canal Lining and Piping Water Conservation
Hrozencik, R. Aaron; Potter, Nicholas A.; Wallander, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
efforts have focused on farm-level irrigation efficiency. However, since over one-third of water applied for agricultural … irrigation in the U.S. comes from off-farm supplies, improvements in delivery and conveyance efficiency also have the potential … to significantly reduce water losses. This study utilizes survey data from irrigation water delivery organizations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334342
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Automated Enforcement of Irrigation Regulations and Social Pressure for Water Conservation
West, Jeremy D.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Pratt, Bryan E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
algorithm's cutoff using a regression discontinuity design, we find that automated irrigation violation warnings cause … irrigation policy enforcement. Our findings highlight the merits of implementing multidimensional conservation programs …
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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/10012455186
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Do Property Rights Alleviate the Problem of the Commons? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights
Ayres, Andrew B. - 2019
Property rights are widely prescribed for addressing overextraction of common pool resources, yet causal evidence of their effectiveness remains elusive. We develop a model of dynamic groundwater extraction to demonstrate how a spatial regression discontinuity design exploiting a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480212
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The Behavioralist as Policy Designer : The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets
Hahn, Robert - 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...
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A Watershed Moment : The Clean Water Act and Infant Health
Flynn, Patrick; Marcus, Michelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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 and incorporate health benefits into a cost-benefit analysis. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616600
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US Water Pollution Regulation over the Last Half Century : Burning Waters to Crystal Springs?
Keiser, David A. - 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/10012480024
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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/10012453904
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Do Earmarks Target Low-Income and Minority Communities? Evidence from US Drinking Water
Keiser, David A.; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Molitor, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The quality and inequality of US drinking water investments have gained attention after recent environmental disasters in Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere. We compare the formula-based targeting of subsidized loans provided under the Safe Drinking Water Act with the targeting of congressional...
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