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is an intergenerational link between the consumers - e.g., water for farming activities. This key dimension is often not … consider common water for farming activities as a CPRs, since these communities use this resource for several decades, the … introduce two variations, the possibility to accumulate water in a dam, which modify the availability of CPRs. Second, the …
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This paper provides novel evidence on the trade-off between public service delivery and free riding in low- and middle-income countries. We implement a field experiment in the slums of two major Indian cities, where inadequate access to sanitation restricts residents to either free ride, by...
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This paper reports controlled experiments on markets linking downstream water entitlement holders with upstream … initial water rights. Coase's (1960) theorem suggests initial endowments will not affect final equilibrium outcomes, in terms … of water prices and water rights held by the various parties. That theorem is tested through experiments with human …
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Households in developing countries face an enormous set of health risks from using contaminated water sources. In 2014 …, a group of 512 households relying on unimproved water, sanitation and hygiene practices in the Greater Accra region of … Ghana were randomly selected to participate in the intervention on water quality self-testing and to receive water quality …
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energy and water use. In this paper, we carry out a field experiment that contributes to this literature in two important … distinguished resources – electricity and water – in the same experimental setting. We find that, on average, our social comparison … reduces daily residential energy consumption by 6.7 percent but has no effect on overall residential water use. The …
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