production in five semi-arid western states. We assemble county-level data on dams and other major water infrastructure … analyze the impact of water infrastructure investments on crop mix and yields in affected counties relative to similarly …-endowed counties that lack such infrastructure. We find that water infrastructure smoothes agricultural crop production and increases …

historical and contemporary responses to varying climatic conditions. It indicates the importance of water as an input to … agricultural production and identifies possible impacts of climate change on access to water. It then summarizes a set of eleven … papers from an NBER research project on water, climate change, and the agricultural sector …

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 …

residential demand for water changes with variations in seasonal precipitation. The findings suggest marked differences between … pricing policy with any capacity planning developed for water supplies as part of anticipatory climate adaptation. Similar …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …