Measuring price elasticities for residential water demand with limited information

Land Economics

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 100-113

  Klaiber, H Allen ^a   Smith, V Kerry ^b   Kaminsky, Michael ^c,d   Strong, Aaron ^e  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d ANALYSIS GROUP   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE WATER CAPACITY; DROUGHT; METROPOLITAN AREA; PRICE DYNAMICS; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; URBAN AREA; WATER DEMAND; WATER ECONOMICS;

ARIZONA; PHOENIX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891794701     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.90.1.100     Document Type: Article

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