Bar-Shira, Ziv; Finkelshtain, Israel; Simhon, Avi - 2014
In this article we adapt Burtless and Hausman's (1978) methodology in order to estimate farmers' demand for irrigation … water under increasing block-rate tariffs and empirically assess its effect on aggregate demand and inter-farm allocation … prices in 185 Israeli agricultural communities in the period 1992-1997, we estimate water demand elasticity at -0.3 in the …