Effectiveness of Public versus Private Ownership: Violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
| Autor: | Pengfei Liu, Guanlong Fu, Stephen K. Swallow |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Safe Drinking Water Act 0208 environmental biotechnology Water supply 02 engineering and technology Commit 010501 environmental sciences Environmental economics 01 natural sciences 020801 environmental engineering Information system Quality (business) Water quality business Agronomy and Crop Science Compliance behavior 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. 49:291-320 |
| ISSN: | 2372-2614 1068-2805 |
| Popis: | The relative performance of public and private enterprises has been long debated. We construct a comprehensive violation dataset based on the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System to empirically investigate the compliance behavior of publicly and privately owned Public Water Systems (PWSs). Our results show that publicly owned PWSs commit significantly more Maximum Contamination Level, Treatment Technique, and Health-Related violations but fewer Monitor and Reporting violations than privately owned PWSs. We also find that municipal-level heterogeneities explain a substantial amount of variation in violation behaviors among PWSs, suggesting water supply quality depends crucially on location-specific regulations and local economic conditions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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