Measuring the income elasticity of water demand: The importance of publication and endogeneity biases

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3368/le.94.2.259" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3368/le.94.2.259</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/le.94.2.259" target="_blank" >10.3368/le.94.2.259</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Measuring the income elasticity of water demand: The importance of publication and endogeneity biases
Original language description
We present the first study that examines the effects of publication selection in the literature estimating the income elasticity of water demand. Paradoxically, more affected by publication selection are the otherwise preferable estimates that control for endogeneity. Attempting to correct simultaneously for publication and endogeneity biases, we find that the mean underlying elasticity is approximately 0.15 or less. The result is robust to controlling for more than 30 characteristics of the estimates and accounting for model uncertainty. The differences in the reported estimates are systematically driven by differences in the tariffstructure, regional coverage, data granularity, and control for temperature.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50201 - Economic Theory

Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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