Improved source,improved quality? Demand for drinking water quality in rural India |
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| Institution: | 1. DaCHE, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, J.B. Winsløwsvej 9B, 1., DK-5000, Odense C, Denmark;2. Newcastle University Business School, UK;3. Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, UK;1. Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA;2. Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK;3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, USA;4. Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, India;5. School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India;1. Department of Economics, Michigan State University, United States;2. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, United States;3. World Bank, United States;4. Department of Energy and Environment, TERI University, India;1. Department of Economics, University of Central Florida, P.O. 1400, Orlando, FL 32816-1400, United States;2. Department of Economics/Tilburg Sustainability Center, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands;3. Department of Economics, University of Verona, Vicolo Campofiore 2, 37129 Verona, Italy;4. Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;1. World Bank, USA;2. Georgetown University, USA;3. University of Michigan, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper tests the hypothesis that the expansion of improved drinking water supplies in rural India reduced household expenditure on water quality, offsetting some of the quality benefits from source protection. I estimate demand for in-home treatment using geological characteristics to predict a household's drinking water source. The probability of treatment and in particular boiling reduces by 18–27 percentage points in response to source protection, offsetting 4% of the water quality gains and saving households 0.5–1% in monthly expenditure. Behavioral choices partly counteract the water quality gains from source protection. |
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| Keywords: | Drinking water quality Averting expenditure Compensating behavior |
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