Title: Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

Type Dataset Devoto, Florencia, Duflo, Esther, Dupas, Pascaline, Pariente, William, Pons, Vincent (2012): Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/V2C9TL

Authors: Devoto, Florencia (J-PAL Europe) ; Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, J-PAL) ; Dupas, Pascaline (Stanford University) ; Pariente, William (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL)) ; Pons, Vincent (Harvard Business School (HBS)) ; Devoto, Florencia (J-PAL Europe) ; Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, J-PAL) ; Dupas, Pascaline (Stanford University) ; Pariente, William (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL)) ; Pons, Vincent (Harvard Business School (HBS)) ;

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Summary

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-of life investments can significantly increase welfare, even if those investments do not result in any health or income gains.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/V2C9TL

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2012
• Created: 2011
• Submitted: April 03, 2012
• Updated: October 23, 2017

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

Format

electronic resource

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