High-frequency analytics and residential water consumption: Estimating heterogeneous effects

IF 2.6 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI:10.1016/j.reseneeco.2025.101500

Mehdi Nemati , Steven Buck , Hilary Soldati

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Abstract

This paper estimates how high-frequency online Home Water Use Reports (HWURs) affect household-level water consumption. The HWURs under the study share social comparisons, consumption analytics, leak alerts, and conservation information to residential accounts, primarily through digital communications. The data utilized in this paper is a daily panel dataset that tracks single-family residential households from January 2013 to September 2019. We found a 6.2 % reduction in average daily household water consumption for a typical household enrolled in the program. We estimate heterogeneous treatment effects by the day of the week, the content of push notifications, and baseline consumption quintile. For the latter, we provide an illustrative test to emphasize how mean reversion can severely bias a naïve panel data estimator for heterogeneous treatment effects when the source of heterogeneity is the outcome variable. We also find evidence that leak alerts effectively reduce water consumption immediately following the alert.

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高频分析和住宅用水：估计异质效应

本文估计了高频在线家庭用水报告（HWURs）如何影响家庭用水水平。该研究中的用水户主要通过数字通信向居民账户分享社会比较、消费分析、泄漏警报和节能信息。本文使用的数据是每日面板数据集，跟踪2013年1月至2019年9月的单户住宅家庭。我们发现，参加该计划的典型家庭平均每日家庭用水量减少了6.2% %。我们通过一周中的一天、推送通知的内容和基线消费五分位数来估计异质性治疗效果。对于后者，我们提供了一个说明性检验，以强调当异质性的来源是结果变量时，均值回归如何严重偏倚naïve面板数据估计器的异质性治疗效果。我们还发现有证据表明，泄漏警报有效地减少了警报后立即用水量。

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期刊介绍： Resource and Energy Economics provides a forum for high level economic analysis of utilization and development of the earth natural resources. The subject matter encompasses questions of optimal production and consumption affecting energy, minerals, land, air and water, and includes analysis of firm and industry behavior, environmental issues and public policies. Implications for both developed and developing countries are of concern. The journal publishes high quality papers for an international audience. Innovative energy, resource and environmental analyses, including theoretical models and empirical studies are appropriate for publication in Resource and Energy Economics.