This paper contributes to the literature on social water policies by clarifying the definition of water affordability and water poverty and by providing the first empirical analysis of water affordability in France. Using quantitative analyses of French household microeconomic surveys, it is...

Cet article propose une évaluation des effets de la délégation des services locaux de l’eau potable en France sur le niveau des prix. On utilise pour cela une méthode d’analyse, dite « des effets de traitement » sur un échantillon de 3.782 communes françaises. Les résultats...

This paper addresses the question of summer cover crop adoption by farmers in presence of a risk of yield loss due to take-all disease and climate variability. To analyse the public incentives needed to encourage farmers to adopt summer cover crops as a means of reducing N leaching, we combine...

We develop a dynamic data-consistent method to estimate agricultural land use choices at a disaggregate (district) level, using more aggregate (regional-level) data. The disaggregation procedure consists of two steps. First, we estimate a dynamic model of land use at the regional level, then we...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the pricing of French water utilities. An econometric model describing both water supply and demand is specified and estimated on utilities located in the Bordeaux area. Based on the estimated technology and demand parameters, we simulate marginal-cost...