Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/264986 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1336
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
An issue that affects the effectiveness of water pricing policies is consumers misperception, which implies that households decide their water consumption based on poor/inaccurate information about the marginal price. We use household survey data on bill and quality perception in Brazil to analyze this problem and its drivers. Once we control for the selection bias caused by survey respondents voluntarily providing their bill, we find evidence of bill misperception. Apart from the informational and socioeconomic drivers usually considered in the literature, perceived water quality seems to be a relevant factor of the degree of misperception.
Subjects: 
water pricing
water quality
price perceptions
economics of information
JEL: 
Q21
Q25
Q54
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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