Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of … scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and … of river water. An implication is that future climate change will affect electricity prices not only through changes in …

Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water …). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to provoke conflict. Using grid-cell data for Africa and central … water mass declines. We measure water mass anomalies based on changes in Earth's gravity field recorded by GRACE and link …

Flint changed its public water source in 2014, causing severe water contamination. We estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis as a natural experiment. Matching vital … results lend support to three mechanisms at work linking water contamination and birth outcomes, i.e. biological effect …

that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

. Second, we show that authors who publish in these journals are more likely to receive a positive evaluation when (randomly …

This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments … evaluation literature. A workhorse simulation model of education returns is used throughout the paper to discuss and illustrate …