Household Adoption of Water-Efficient Equipment: The Role of Socio-economic Factors, Environmental Attitudes and Policy
Article dans une revue: Using survey data of 10,000 households from 10 OECD countries, we identify the driving factors of household adoption of water-efficient equipment by estimating Probit models of a household's probability to invest in such equipment. The results indicate that environmental attitudes and ownership status are strong predictors of adoption of water-efficient equipment. In terms of policy, we find that households that were both metered and charged for their water individually had a much higher probability to invest in water-efficient equipment compared to households that paid a flat fee.
Auteur(s)
Katrin Millock, Céline Nauges
Revue
- Environmental and Resource Economics
Date de publication
- 2010
Mots-clés JEL
Mots-clés
- Attitudes
- Metering
- Residential water use
- Technology adoption
Pages
- 539-565
URL de la notice HAL
Version
- 1
Volume
- 46