Research Interests for Christopher D. Timmins

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

Representative 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]