Christopher D. Timmins, Director of EcoTeach and Associate Professor

Christopher D. Timmins is an associate professor within the department of economics and the Nicolas School of the Environment at Duke University. Before joining the Duke faculty in 2004, he taught at Yale University, where he began his career in 1997. He received his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University in 1997, and graduated magna cum laude, with a BSFS in international economics, from Georgetown University in 1991. Professor Timmins specializes in the subjects of natural resource and environment economics, industrial organization, and development, public, and regional economics. His research also often incorporates tieabout models, sorting models, and hedonic valuation. He has received funding from National Science Foundation Grants for his projects conducted in collaboration with Patrick Bayer and Robert MacMillan. Some of his recent studies include, “Simple, Consistent Estimation of the Marginal Willingness to Pay Function: Recovering Rosen’s Second Stage Without Instrumental Variables”, with Kelly Bishop, and “Mobility and Environmental Equity: Do Housing Choices Determine Exposure to Air Pollution?”, with Brooks Depro. Professor Timmins has published his papers and articles extensively in a number of leading academic journals. His work has appeared in the Journal of Development Economics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Environmental Economics and Management. He has also contributed chapters in several books, including Who’s in and Who’s Out: Social Exclusion in Latin America, Current Issues in the Economics o Water Management: Theory: Applications, and Policy, and Inter-American Development Bank Report R-386. Along with publishing his research findings and ideas, Professor Timmins has presented his work at conferences and seminars throughout the nation and the world. He recently appeared as a discussant at the AEA Annual Meeting in San Francisco and as a speaker at the NBER Winter Meeting at Stanford. He has also traveled to Germany, Italy, Finland, Mexico, Brazil, and Cyprus to attend conferences as a presenter. When Professor Timmins is not fulfilling his duties as a teacher and researcher, he also serves on the Academic Council and as Director of EcoTeach at Duke University. He is also a part of the Energy and the Environment Educational Initiative Working Group and the Economics Department Executive Committee. He is a member of the oversight committee for the Undergraduate Certificate in Energy and the Environment, a director at the Micro-Incentives Research Center, and a member of the steering committee and advisory board for the Social Sciences Research Institute.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	209 Social Sciences Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-1809
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.econ.duke.edu/~timmins/index.html

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• ECON 55D.001, INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS I Synopsis

  Bryan Center GRIFFITH F, MWF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• ECON 395A.01, NON-MARKET VALUATION

  Social Sciences 327, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Office Hours:

By Appointment

Education:

PhD Economics	Stanford University	1997
BSFS Intl. Economics, Summa Cum Laude	Georgetown University	1991

Specialties:

environmental economics

Research Interests:

Professor Timmins specializes in the subjects of natural resource and environment economics, industrial organization, and development, public, and regional economics. His research also explores the areas of air pollution, climate change, and environmental justice; his research also often incorporates tieabout models, sorting models, and hedonic valuation. He has received funding from National Science Foundation Grants for his work in collaboration with Patrick Bayer and Robert MacMillan. Some of his recent studies include, “Simple, Consistent Estimation of the Marginal Willingness to Pay Function: Recovering Rosen’s Second Stage Without Instrumental Variables” with Kelly Bishop, and “Mobility and Environmental Equity: Do Housing Choices Determine Exposure to Air Pollution?” with Brooks Depro. He also collaborated with Jennifer Nou to complete a study entitled, “How Do Changes in Welfare Law Affect Domestic Violence? An Analysis of Connecticut Towns.” He has also completed projects independently, such as his recent explorations of “Poverty Measurement in the Presence of Spatially Varying Prices and Non-Marketed Consumption,” “Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the ‘Pollution Havens’ Hypothesis,” and “Estimable Equilibrium Models of Locational Sorting and their Role in Development Economics.”

Keywords:

Environmental Economics • Development Economics • Public Finance • Regional Economics • hedonic valuation • sorting models • air pollution • climate change • tieabout models • enviromental justice

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Patrick Bayer and Nathaniel Keohane and Christopher Timmins, Migration and Hedonic Valuation: The Case of Air Quality, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 58 no. 1 (July, 2009), pp. 1--14, ISSN 00950696 [login.aspx]  [abs]
2. Ulrich J. Wagner and Christopher D. Timmins, Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis, Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 43 no. 2 (June, 2009), pp. 231--256, ISSN 09246460 [login.aspx]  [abs]
3. Shanjun Li and Christopher Timmins and Roger H. von Haefen, How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy?, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 1 no. 2 (2009), pp. 113--137, ISSN 19457731 [login.aspx]  [abs]
4. Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti, and Khan, Shakeeb, and Timmins, Christopher,, The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach, SSRN (October, 2008)  [abs]
5. Patrick Bayer and Christopher Timmins, Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting across Locations, Economic Journal, vol. 117 no. 518 (March, 2007), pp. 353--374, ISSN 00130133 [login.aspx]  [abs]
6. Christopher Timmins and Jennifer Murdock, A Revealed Preference Approach to the Measurement of Congestion in Travel Cost Models, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 53 no. 2 (March, 2007), pp. 230--249, ISSN 00950696 [login.aspx]  [abs]
7. Christopher Timmins, If You Cannot Take the Heat, Get out of the Cerrado . . . Recovering the Equilibrium Amenity Cost of Nonmarginal Climate Change in Brazil, Journal of Regional Science, vol. 47 no. 1 (February, 2007), pp. 1--25, ISSN 00224146 [login.aspx]  [abs]