Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Parienté () and Vincent Pons

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, vol. 4, issue 4, 68-99

Abstract: Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not because a connection improves health but because it increases the time available for leisure and reduces inter- and intra-household conflicts on water matters, leading to sustained improvements in well-being. Our results suggest that facilitating access to credit for households to finance lump sum quality-oflife investments can significantly increase welfare, even if those investments do not result in any health or income gains. (JEL D12, I31, O12, O13, O18, Q25)

JEL-codes: D12 I31 O12 O13 O18 Q25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
Note: DOI: 10.1257/pol.4.4.68
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