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To drink or not to drink (tap water)? The impact of environmental quality on consumer’s choices

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  • Bontemps, Christophe
  • Nauges, Celine

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Surveys regularly report that a large share of the French population declares not to drink tap water. However, tap water has a very good sanitary quality, is regularly and strictly controlled, and is approximately one hundred times cheaper than bottled water. We attempt here to identify which factors are affecting households’ decision to drink (or not) tap water. Using a sample of French households, we show that both the socioeconomic characteristics of the household (income, education, rural or urban residence), and the surrounding quality of the environment (measured here by the raw water quality) are important in the households’ decision process to drink tap water.

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  • Bontemps, Christophe & Nauges, Celine, 2010. "To drink or not to drink (tap water)? The impact of environmental quality on consumer’s choices," INRAE Sciences Sociales, Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE), Departement Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et Alimentation, Espace et Environnement (SAE2), vol. 2010, pages 1-6, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:inrass:150547
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.150547
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    Keywords

    Consumer/Household Economics; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities

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