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James T. Hamilton

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211 Sanford Institute
Durham, NC 27708 		(919) 613-7358 (office)
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Education

PhDHarvard University1991
B.A. Summa Cum LaudeHarvard University1983
Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Charles S. Sydnor Professor, Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science, July 2004-present
Oscar L. Tang Family Professor, Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science, July 2003-June 2004
Associate Director, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, July 2001-June 2002
Oscar L. Tang Family Associate Professor, Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science, July 2000-June 2003
Associate Professor, Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science, July 1998-June 2000
Director, Duke Program on Violence and the Media, September 1993-June 2000
Assistant Professor, Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science, September 1991-June 1998
Visiting Positions
Visiting Associate Professor, Marvin Chair in Global Communications, Harvard University, July 2002-December 2002
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, June, 2005
Resources for the Future Fellow in Environmental Regulatory Implementation, Duke University, 2002
David N. Kershaw Award, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2001
Bass Society of Fellows, Duke University, 2000
Goldsmith Book Prize from Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government, 1999
Vernon Prize, 1995
Oak Ridge Associate Universities Faculty Award, 1994
Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award, Duke University, 1993
John Olin Law and Economics Fellow, Duke Law School, 1990-1991
Allyn Young Prize for Excellence in Teaching the Principles of Economics, Harvard University, 1988
Harvard Danforth Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 1987, 1988
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1985-1988
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1985-1988
Phi Beta Kappa Junior Twelve, 1982
John Harvard Scholar, 1980-1983
Presidential Scholar, 1979
Conferences Organized

Special Editor, Law and Contemporary Problems conference, Fall 1992
Professional Service

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Public Policy Department, July 2004 - present
Referee, Journals, University Presses, and Foundations
   American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Economic Inquiry, Growth and Change, Harvard University Press, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, National Research Council, National Science Foundation, Policy Studies Journal, Princeton University Press, Public Choice, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Risk Analysis, Smith Richardson Foundation, Social Science Quarterly, Southern Economic Journal, University of Chicago Press, W.W. Norton
Selected Recent Invited Talks

Economics of News, Knight Media Learning Seminar, Coral Gables, FL, Feb. 2008
Economics of News, USC Annenberg Journalism Seminar, April 2008
Economics of News, Knight Digital Media Center Leadership Seminar, July 2008
Economics of News, USC Conference for Newspaper Editors, 2007
Economics of News, Knight Digital Media Center Conference, UC Berkeley, 2007
Panelist at Changing Media, Changing Politics Panel, IPSA, Fukuoka, Japan, July 2006
Panelist, Changing Media, Changing China Conference, UC San Diego, May 2006
All the News That's Fit to Sell, Lead lecture, UC Berkeley Conference on Changing Economics of News, April 14, 2005
All the News That's Fit to Sell, Fordham Media Seminar, November 2004
Participant/Dinner speaker, Annenberg Journalism Futures Conference, June, 2005
Working group on Media, Yale-Aspen Institute conference on Global Warming, October, 2005
All the News That's Fit to Sell, Federal Communications Commission Seminar, Spring
All the News That's Fit to Sell, University of Tokyo Panel on Political Information, Spring
All the News That's Fit to Sell, Duke Law School Information Ecology Lecture Series, Spring
All the News That's Fit to Sell, Fuqua School Conference on the Marketplace of Ideas, Summer
All the News That's Fit to Sell, AEJMC Panel, Toronto, Canada, Summer
Media and the Marketplace, Annenberg Conference on the Institutions of the Media, Palm Springs, CA, Spring
Media Coverage of CEOs, Stanford Business School Conference on Media Economics, Spring
Presentation on "All the News That's Fit to Sell", Harvard, Kennedy School of Government, December 2003
Presentation on "All the News That's Fit to Sell", Dept. of Political Science, UCSD, November 2003
Presentation on "Regulation through Revelation", Resources for the Future, December 2003
Presentation on "Environmental Equity and the Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities in OECD Countries" to OECD Environment Directorate Workshop on the Distribution of Benefits and Costs of Environmental Policies, Paris, France, March 2003

Publications

Books

  1. Scott de Marchi and J.T. Hamilton, You Are What You Choose: The Habits of Mind that Really Determine How We Make Decisions (2009), New York: Portfolio (Penguin Group).
  2. J.T. Hamilton, Conserving Data in the Conservation Reserve Program: How a Regulatory Program Runs on Imperfect Information (Forthcoming January 2010), Washington, DC: Resources for the Future Press.
  3. J.T. Hamilton, Regulation Through Revelation: The Origin and Impacts of the Toxics Release Inventory Program (2005), New York: Cambridge University Press.
  4. J.T. Hamilton, All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News (2004), Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  5. J.T. Hamilton, Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming (2000), Princeton University Press, paperback edition.
  6. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi, Calculating Risks? The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy (1999), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  7. Television Violence and Public Policy, edited by J. T. Hamilton (1998), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (Paperback edition 2000.).
  8. J.T. Hamilton, Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming (1998), Princeton: Princeton University Press (Paperback edition 2000.).
  9. J.T. Hamilton with Charles Brown and James Medoff, Employers Large and Small (1990), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  10. J.T. Hamilton with Joseph P. Kalt, The FACS/Ford Study of Economic and Business Journalism (1987), Los Angeles: Foundation for American Communications and the Ford Foundation.

Chapters in Books

  1. J.T. Hamilton, The Market and the Media, in Institutions of American Democracy: The Press, edited by Overholser and Jamieson (2005), Oxford University Press.
  2. J.T. Hamilton, Environmental Equity and the Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities in OECD Countries: Evidence and Policies, in International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2005/2006, edited by Tietenberg and Folmer (2005), Edward Elgar.
  3. J.T. Hamilton, Going by the *(Informal) Book: The EPA's Use of Informal Rules in Enforcing Hazardous Waste Laws, in Reinventing Government and The Problem of Bureaucracy, edited by Gary Libecap (1996), pp. 109-155, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Journal Articles

  1. Scott de Marchi and J.T. Hamilton, Assessing the Accuracy of Self-Reported Data: An Evaluation of the Toxics Release Inventory, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty no. 32 (2006), pp. 57-76.
  2. J.T. Hamilton with Ted Gayer and W. Kip Viscusi, The Market Value of Reducing Cancer Risk: Hedonic Housing Prices with Changing Information, Southern Economic Journal, vol. 69 no. 2 (2002), pp. 266-289.
  3. J.T. Hamilton with Ted Gayer and W. Kip Viscusi, Private Values of Risk Tradeoffs at Superfund Site: Housing Market Evidence on Learning about Risk, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 82 no. 3 (August, 2000), pp. 439-451.
  4. J.T. Hamilton with Kip Viscusi, How Costly is 'Clean'?: An Analysis of the Benefits and Costs of Superfund Site Remediations, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 18 no. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 2-27.
  5. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi, Are Risk Regulators Rational? Evidence From Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions, American Economic Review, vol. 89 no. 4 (September, 1999), pp. 1010-1027.
  6. J.T. Hamilton, Exercising Property Rights to Pollute: Do Cancer Risks and Politics Affect Plant Emission Reductions?, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 18 no. 2 (August, 1999), pp. 105-124.
  7. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi and P. Christen Dockins, Conservative versus Mean Risk Assessments: Implications for Superfund Policies, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 34 (November, 1997), pp. 187-206.
  8. J.T. Hamilton, Taxes, Torts, and the Toxics Release Inventory: Congressional Voting on Instruments to Control Pollution, Economic Inquiry, vol. 35 no. 4 (October, 1997), pp. 745-762.
  9. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi, The Benefits and Costs of Regulatory Reforms for Superfund, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, vol. 16 no. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 159-198.
  10. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi, Cleaning Up Superfund, The Public Interest, vol. 124 (Summer, 1996), pp. 52-60.
  11. J.T. Hamilton with Helen F. Ladd, Biased Ballots? The Impact of Ballot Structure on North Carolina Elections in 1992, Public Choice, vol. 87 (June, 1996), pp. 259-280.
  12. J.T. Hamilton with John Brehm, Noncompliance in Environmental Reporting: Are Violators Ignorant, or Evasive, of the Law?, American Journal of Political Science, vol. 40 no. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 444-477.
  13. J.T. Hamilton, Private Interests in 'Public Interest' Programming: An Economic Assessment of Broadcaster Incentives, Duke Law Journal, vol. 45 no. 6 (1996), pp. 1177-1192.
  14. J.T. Hamilton, Testing for Environmental Racism: Prejudice, Profits, Political Power?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 14 no. 1 (Winter, 1995), pp. 107-132.
  15. J.T. Hamilton, Pollution as News: Media and Stock Market Reactions to the Toxics Release Inventory Data, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 28 (January, 1995), pp. 98-113.
  16. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi, Human Health Risk Assessments for Superfund, Ecology Law Quarterly, vol. 21 no. 3 (1994), pp. 573-641 (Revised version published as "The Magnitude and Policy Implications of Health Risks from Hazardous Waste Sites," in Richard L. Revesz and Richard B. Stewart (eds.), Analyzing Superfund: Economics, Science, and Law (Washington: Resources for the Future, 1995), 55-81; reprinted in part in Richard L. Revesz (ed.) Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 256-263.).
  17. J.T. Hamilton with Christopher H. Schroeder, Strategic Regulators and the Choice of Rulemaking Procedures: The Selection of Formal and Informal Rules in Regulating Hazardous Waste, Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 57 (Winter/Spring 1994), pp. 111-160.
  18. J.T. Hamilton, Politics and Social Costs: Estimating the Impact of Collective Action on Hazardous Waste Facilities, Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 24 no. 1 (Spring, 1993), pp. 101-125 (Reprinted in Roger D. Congleton (ed.), The Political Economy of Environmental Protection: Analysis and Evidence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.).
  19. J.T. Hamilton, Lower Pay for Analysis: Greater Rewards are Offered Those Writing Economics from Human Interest and Political Viewpoints, Nieman Reports, vol. XLV (Fall, 1991).
  20. J.T. Hamilton, Missing and the Mark(et) in Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, vol. I (1991).

Papers Published

  1. J.T. Hamilton, News That Sells: Media Competition and News Content, Japanese Journal of Political Science, vol. 8 no. 1 (2007), pp. 7-42.

Papers In Preparation

  1. Scott deMarchi and J.T. Hamilton, How Do Self-Reported Pollution Figures Stack Up? Evidence from the Toxics Release Inventory (2006).

Other

  1. J.T. Hamilton, Co-editor and Co-organizer for conference volume entitlted "News in the Public Interest: A Free and Subsidized Press" (2004), Reilly Center, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University.
  2. J.T. Hamilton, Media Coverage of Corporate Social Responsibility (2003) (Working paper for Shorenstein Center on Press and Public Policy.).
  3. J.T. Hamilton, Special editor and organizer for conference volume entitled "Regulating Regulation: The Political Economy of Administrative Procedures and Regulatory Instruments, Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 57 (Winter/Spring 1994).
  4. J.T. Hamilton with Victor Hasselblad, The Toxics Release Inventory: Information Provision and Pollution Reduction (1993) (Case Study.).
  5. J.T. Hamilton with Frederick Mayer, Hazardous Waste in North Carolina (1992) (Case Study.).
  6. J.T. Hamilton, Politics and Social Cost: Hazardous Waste Facilities in a Truly Coasian World, Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs Working Paper (June, 1991).
  7. J.T. Hamilton with Henry Lee, Rapporteur's Report: Executive Session on Northeast Electric Power Policy, Discussion Paper Series (May, 1987), Energy and Environmental Policy Center, Kennedy School of Government.
  8. J.T. Hamilton with Joseph P. Kalt and Henry Lee, A Review of the Adequacy of Electric Power Generating Capacity in the United States, 1985-93-Beyond, Discussion Paper Series (June, 1986), Discussion Paper Series, Energy and Environmental Policy Center, Kennedy School of Government.

Book Chapter

  1. J.T. Hamilton, Environmental Equity and the Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities in OECD Countries: Evidence and Policies, in The Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy.., edited by Yse Serret and Nick Johnstone (2006), Edward Elgar and OECD.
Last modified: 2009/07/03