Comparing price and nonprice approaches to urban water conservation

By Sheila M. Olmstead, R. Stavins. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Ocean Engineering

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Water demand management research: A psychological perspective (2010, background): “Hence, the influence of water pricing raises issues of equity and fairness [ Olmstead and Stavins, 2009; Gaudin, 2006].”
Conservation Policies: Who Responds to Price and Who Responds to Prescription? (2016, positive): “Olmstead and Stavins (2009) lay out an exhaustive comparison of price and nonprice policies and conclude that neither prices nor prescriptive policies are superior in their distributional bona fides, despite prices being a more cost-effective management tool.”
Determinants of residential water consumption: Evidence and analysis from a 10‐country household survey (2011, background): “[4] Our results are important because, in general, water utilities and water pricing regulatory authorities have eschewed the use of price as the primary method of controlling residential water demand and have, instead, opted for a variety of nonprice approaches [Olmstead and Stavins, 2009].”
Knowledge is (Less) Power: Experimental Evidence from Residential Energy Use (2014, positive): “Electric utilities have made social pressure a cornerstone of recent energy conservation efforts and federal authorities rely heavily on efficiency standards.8 To respond to droughts, water authorities tend to use non-pecuniary approaches (Olmstead and Stavins 2009).”
Adoption Versus Adaptation, with Emphasis on Climate Change (2012, positive): “Olmstead & Stavins (2009) suggest that price-based approaches compare favorably with command-and-control approaches in terms of efficiency , monitoring, and enforcement.”