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Water Taxes and Consumer Behavior in France

Simon Porcher

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Water taxes are employed to correct externalities associated with water pollution or resource scarcity and to raise government revenue. In this paper, using a dataset on more than 4,000 French municipalities, we directly examine how water taxes affect consumer behavior as distinct from tax-exclusive water prices. Our analysis shows that a 10-cent tax increase reduces water consumption by 0.26 percent, similarly to a 10-cent increase in the tax-exclusive water price. The responsiveness of consumers to tax and tax-exclusive price is important because it gives information about consumers' sensitivity to policy interventions versus market prices.
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hal-02145848 , version 1 (03-06-2019)

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Simon Porcher. Water Taxes and Consumer Behavior in France. 2019. ⟨hal-02145848⟩
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