The Residential Water Demand Effect of Increasing Block Rate Water Budgets
研究了财政中性的递增阶梯水价预算结构对居民用水需求的影响，估计需求减少约17%，并分析了不同人群的反应及替代定价方案的效果。
We investigate the effect of introducing a fiscally neutral increasing block rate water budget price structure on residential water demand. We estimate that demand was reduced by around 17%, although the reduction was achieved gradually over more than three years. As intermediate steps we derive estimates of price and income elasticities that rely only on longitudinal variability. We investigate how different subpopulations responded to the pricing change and find evidence that marginal, rather than average, prices may be driving consumption. We also derive alternative rate structures that might have been implemented, and assess their estimated demand effects. <i></i>