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Millock, Katrin
and Nauges, Céline
(2009)
Household Adoption of Water-Efficient Equipment: The Role of Socio-Economic Factors, Environmental Attitudes and Policy.
TSE Working Paper, n. 09-057
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Abstract
Using unique survey data of 10,000 households from 10 OECD countries, we identify the driving factors of household adoption of water-efficient equipment by estimating Probit models of a household's probability to invest in such equipment. The results indicate that the adoption of water-efficient equipment is the most strongly affected by ownership status, by being metered and charged a volumetric charge on water consumption, and by behavioural factors. Environmental attitudes are strong predictors of adoption of water-efficient equipment, with a marginal effect that exceeds ownership status in some cases. In terms of policy, we find that households that were both metered and charged for their water individually had a much higher probability to invest in water-efficient equipment compared to households that were not charged for their water.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | June 2009 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | attitudes, metering, residential water use |
| JEL Classification: | D12 - Consumer Economics - Empirical Analysis O33 - Technological Change - Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes Q25 - Water |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2012 06:00 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2021 15:36 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:22182 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/3226 |
