[HTML][HTML] Are economic tools useful to manage residential water demand? A review of old issues and emerging topics

MÁ García-Valiñas, S Suárez-Fernández - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
The analysis of residential water demand has long attracted attention from researchers.
However, the central topics at issue have evolved considerably, transitioning from estimating …

The design and evaluation of water tariffs: A systematic review

D Fuente - Utilities Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Across the globe, many low-and middle-income countries are investing in their first
generation of piped water and sanitation infrastructure. At the same time, the water and …

Socio-hydrological drought impacts on urban water affordability

B Rachunok, S Fletcher - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
In water-stressed regions, droughts pose a critical challenge to urban water security for low-
income households. Droughts reduce water availability, forcing water providers to invest in …

[HTML][HTML] Behavioural nudges for water conservation in unequal settings: Experimental evidence from Cape Town

K Brick, S De Martino, M Visser - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study addresses the use of behavioural nudges in reducing households' use of water
across a large sample (> 360,000 households) of domestic users. The impacts of several …

Conservation policies: Who responds to price and who responds to prescription?

CJ Wichman, LO Taylor, RH Von Haefen - Journal of Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
The efficiency properties of price and nonprice instruments for conservation in
environmental policy are well understood. However, there is little evidence comparing the …

Do monetary and non-monetary incentives influence environmental attitudes and behavior? Evidence from an experimental analysis

D Rajapaksa, R Gifford, B Torgler… - Resources …, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a wide array of empirical work on the use of monetary and non-monetary measures
to manage residential water consumption. However, there has been little focus on exploring …

[HTML][HTML] On the role of present bias and biased price beliefs in household energy consumption

M Werthschulte, A Löschel - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The intermittency of energy billing may give rise to different biases or misperceptions, such
that household energy demand deviates from its true optimum. This study investigates such …

The impact of increase in block pricing on electricity demand responsiveness: Evidence from Ghana

W Ayertey, A Sharifi, Y Yoshida - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The implementation of Increase in Block Pricing (IBP) policy is premised on the assumption
that consumers adjust their behavior to save energy in response to electricity price …

Information provision and consumer behavior: A natural experiment in billing frequency

CJ Wichman - Journal of Public Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, I estimate a causal effect of increased billing frequency on consumer behavior. I
exploit a natural experiment in which residential water customers switched exogenously …

Price perceptions in water demand

DA Brent, MB Ward - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Economists advocate for using the price mechanism to manage water scarcity, but complex
nonlinear rate structures prevalent in markets for municipal water obscure price signals. We …