We investigate the effect of introducing a fiscally neutral increasing block rate water budget
price structure on residential water demand. We estimate that demand was reduced by …

Although widely studied, the residential water demand remains a controversial issue. The
purpose of the current study is to investigate systematic variations across related studies …

In developed countries, water affordability issues are regarded as a non-significant problem.
This paper analyses the prevalence of affordability problems at household level and the …

We present the first study that examines the effects of publication selection in the literature
estimating the income elasticity of water demand. Paradoxically, more affected by …

China is the largest electricity consumption country after it has passed the United States in
2011. Residential electricity consumption in China grew by 381.35%(12.85% per annum) …

In practice, water pricing is the main economic instrument used to discourage the wasteful
use of residential water. Owing to considerations of affordability, residential water is …

A problem that affects the estimation of water demand functions is the presence of
unobserved individual heterogeneity, which means that a common demand function is …

Abstract The implementation of Increasing Block Electricity Prices (IBEPs) aims to guide
residents towards electricity savings and rational energy use, but there are questions over …

During recent decades, water demand estimation has gained considerable attention from
scholars. From an econometric perspective, the most used functional forms include log‐log …

This paper deals with the question of unobservable heterogeneity and problems of scale in
urban water demand. For this purpose, the determinants of domestic water consumption and …