The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations

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Prices versus Rationing: Marshallian Surplus and Mandatory Water Restrictions (2008, unknown): “Mansur and Olmstead (2007) used daily household consumption data separated into indoor and outdoor use from 11 urban areas in Canada and the United States over a 2-week period in a dry, and also a wet season.”
Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures (2007, background): “For estimates of low price elasticity among households with strong preferences for outdoor consumption, see [21].”
Heterogeneous treatment effects and mechanisms in information-based environmental policies: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment (2013, background): “Mansur and Olmstead (2012) find that, as theory would predict, high-income households in urban areas are less price-sensitive to changes in residential water prices.”
Conservation Policies: Who Responds to Price and Who Responds to Prescription? (2016, unknown): “For example, Michelsen et al. (1999) analyze water use in seven southwestern municipalities and find that nonprice programs reduced water demand by 1 to 4 percent.”