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Water Pollution Location: B129 Session Chair: Erin Litzow, University of Texas at Dallas | |
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Delayed Information and Behavioral Spillovers: Evidence from U.S. Drinking Water Violations Indiana University, United States of America Mandated information disclosure about environmental hazards is widely used to help households recognize and avoid them. However, government audits of the Safe Drinking Water Act have documented persistent gaps in notification delivery. This paper studies how the timing of public notification influences household avoidance behavior following acute microbial violations. I combine administrative violations and enforcement records to construct the first national measure of public notification timing. Bottled water sales in affected counties rise by 14.7\% following timely notification, are muted when notification is delayed, and remain unchanged when notification is missing. Event-study evidence indicates that consumers respond to public information rather than to the violation itself. I further document spillovers of about 9\% in neighboring counties, concentrated within shared media markets and absent across alternative channels such as social connectedness or socio-demographic similarity. | |