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Popovich, Natalie Danielle.

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Information as a Tool for Urban Water Conservation: Three Essays in Microeconomics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Information as a Tool for Urban Water Conservation: Three Essays in Microeconomics./
Author:	Popovich, Natalie Danielle.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	81 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-09B.
Subject:	Environmental economics. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=22624521
ISBN:	9781658412643

Information as a Tool for Urban Water Conservation: Three Essays in Microeconomics.
Popovich, Natalie Danielle.

Information as a Tool for Urban Water Conservation: Three Essays in Microeconomics. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 81 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Chapter 1 examines the response to WaterSmart, a program intended to reduce residential water use through the use of social comparisons. In contrast to previous findings on social comparison programs meant to reduce water use, I find that average reductions in the year following treatment are larger than those during the treatment period, although smaller in general. I do not find that this persistent reduction can be explained by an increase in investment in physical capital, via rebates. While home water reports delivered by mail reduce water use by 3.4 times more than those delivered by email, the low marginal cost of email reports make them about three times more cost effective. Targeting high-users with print reports and moderate users with email reports could potentially improve the cost-effectiveness of social comparisons programs for utilities. Chapter 2 evaluates how to introduce non-linear pricing of a natural monopoly in practice. We deploy an event study framework that exploits the transition from flat rate to volumetric pricing in the residential water setting. Using household level panel data on water use, estimate the short-run price elasticity of demand for water in each of the 24 months following the price change. I find that volumetric pricing led to a large and permanent reduction in water use. This reduction also occurred in the two months preceding the price change, in response to personalized information on expected expenditure under the new tariff. These findings suggest that prices coupled with information may be more effective than either price or non-price mechanisms at managing water demand. Chapter 3 introduces a preliminary conceptual framework to incorporate information feedback loops into the water management structure. Drawing on principles of systems thinking and the circular economy, this chapter aims to explain how modeling information stocks explicitly can provide more useful explanations for how and why water users may respond to specific policy mechanisms.

ISBN: 9781658412643Subjects--Topical Terms:

535179
Environmental economics.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Circular economy

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