Replication data for: Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Florencia Devoto; Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; William Parienté; Vincent Pons

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Devoto, Florencia, Duflo, Esther, Dupas, Pascaline, Parienté, William, and Pons, Vincent. Replication data for: Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2012. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114805V1

Project Description

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-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)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
      I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
      O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
      O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
      Q25 Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water

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