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Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the urban poor are often unwilling to pay for the costs of that piping....
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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...
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, market structure and government regulation. We show that rights are more clearly defined and trading more common in Australia …
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development of local public finance. Specifically, we highlight the importance of municipal bond market growth as a facilitator of …
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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...
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Poor water quality and sanitation are leading causes of mortality and disease in developing countries. However, interventions providing toilets in rural areas have not substantially improved health, likely because of incomplete coverage and low usage. This paper estimates the impact of an...
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We consider nonparametric identification in models of differentiated products markets, using only market level … models widely used in applied work. We allow for product/market-specific unobservables, endogenous product characteristics (e …
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behavior in the car market. We show that a social planner can use leasing contracts to improve welfare but they are imperfect … tools; they cannot generally achieve first best while other mechanisms can. We also show that a producer with market power … can benefit from leasing contracts for two reasons: better pricing of the option of keeping the used good, and market …
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the demand and suppoly for labor-intensive care. Many economists have argued that aging will raise the market demand for … long-term care, and hence price and quantity through classic market effects. We argue that the direct effect of aging is to … lower the demand for market care by incresing the supply of home production. By influencing the length of frail lifetimes …
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approximates Harris' (1954) market-potential function. The estimation results show how far demand linkages extend across space and …
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