The Specification of Price in Studies of Consumer Demand under Block Price Scheduling: Comment

Policy relevance in studies of urban residential water demand

“…A particular interest in recent years, starting with Billings and Agthe [1980], has been the econometric problem of estimating demand in cases where increasing or decreasing block rates schedules are in use. Very recent studies and exchanges include Stevens et al [1985], Schefter and David [1985], and Polzin [1984Polzin [ , 1985. One of the authors of this paper has participated in this exercise Martin, 1981, 1982;Martin et al, 1984].…”