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
D12 O33 Q25 Q58
Mots-clés
  • Attitudes
  • Metering
  • Residential water use
  • Technology adoption
Pages
  • 539-565
Version
  • 1
Volume
  • 46