Awareness and the Demand of Safe Drinking Water Practices

Eatzaz Ahmed and Abdul Sattar
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Eatzaz Ahmed: Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
Abdul Sattar: Ministry of Finance, Islamabad
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Abdul Sattar Nahyoun ()

No 2007:21, PIDE-Working Papers from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Abstract: The demand for environmental goods is often low in developing countries. The major causes are awareness regarding the contamination of water and poverty, but less attention has been paid to the former reason. We use a household survey from Hyderabad city and estimate the contribution of awareness and income on households’ water purification behaviour. The study finds out that measures of awareness such as different level of schooling of decision-makers and household heads and their exposure to mass media have statistically significant effects on home purification methods for drinking water, while other members of households can effect this behaviour only when they get higher levels of schooling.

Keywords: Demand; Awareness; Safe Drinking Water; Logit Model; Probit Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D13 D31 Q21 Q25 Q51 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages.
Date: 2007
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