Distributional Statistics of Municipal Water Use During Cape Town’s Drought: Implications for Affordability, Conservation and Tariff Design 20-23

Submitted by Eugenia Leon on

We calculate the first distributional statistics for municipal water supply deliveries using 14.9 million monthly billing records for a half-million households in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2014-2018. These years span a historic drought and a multi-faceted package of conservation programs that achieved a 50% city-wide drop in consumption. We find that the top 10% of households consumed 31% of water deliveries before the drought, with the Gini coefficient

Conservation, Water

ifo DICE Report 1 / 2020 (Spring): Carbon Pricing

Submitted by Eugenia Leon on

Since 2003, ifo DICE Report has offered a forum for the discussion
of institutional questions written by internationally renowned experts. The editorial team’s aim was to present findings on current topics in an accessible way. In 2019, we asked readers of all ifo publications how we can make our offer even more useful for their work. Many respondents said their focus was on relevance and topicality, no matter if the topic is presented from a macroeconomic or an institutional economics view. And they would like to have the