Christopher Timmins

Business Address
Department of Economics, Duke University
209 Social Sciences Building
P.O. Box 90097
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0097
(919) 660-1809

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Web page: http://www.econ.duke.edu/~timmins/index.html

Employment

• Duke University, Department of Economics, Associate Professor, September 2004 - Present
• Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Secondary Appointment, September 2004 - Present
• Yale University, Department of Economics, Associate Professor, May 2002 - June 2004
• Yale University, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor, July 1997 - May 2002
• Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Courtesy Appointment, January 2001 - June 2004
• Yale University, Economic Growth Center, Affiliated Faculty, September 1999 - June 2004

Education

• Stanford University, Ph.D. Economics, October 1997
  Dissertation: "Price as a Policy Tool For Dynamic Resource Allocation"
• Georgetown University, BSFS in International Economics, Summa Cum Laude, December 1991

Honors, Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

• NBER Faculty Research Fellow, September 2007 - Present
• National Science Foundation Grant #SES-0721136, with Patrick Bayer
• 2002 DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College
• National Science Foundation Grant #SES-0137289, with Patrick Bayer
• Honorable Mention, Graduate Advisor of the Year, Yale University Department of Economics
• Yale University Morse Mellon Junior Faculty Leave Fellowship
• Yale University Social Science Research Fellowship
• Resources For The Future, Joseph L. Fisher Dissertation Fellowship
• Center for Economic Policy Research, Harry and Lynne Bradley Dissertation Research Fellowship
• Honorable Mention, Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Stanford Economics Department
• Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship
• Georgetown School of Foreign Service, 1992 Graduation Award in Economics
• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Georgetown University

Research Interests

Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, Development Economics, Public Economics, Regional Economics

Publications, Papers, and Research Activities

Publications

• "A Revealed Preference Approach to the Measurement of Congestion in Travel Cost Models," with Jennifer Murdock. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol.53, Issue 2 (March 2007):230-249.
• "If You Can't Take the Heat, Get Out of the Cerrado... Recovering the Equilibrium Amenity Cost of Non-Marginal Climate Change in Brazil." Journal of Regional Science, Vol.47, Issue 1 (February 2007): 1-25.
• "Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations," with Patrick Bayer. Economic Journal, Vol.117, Issue 518 (March 2007):353-374.
• "Endogenous Land Use and the Ricardian Valuation of Climate Change." Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 33, n. 1 (January 2006):119-142.
• "Estimating Spatial Differences in the Brazilian Cost-of-Living With Household Location Choices" Journal of Development Economics, Vol.80, n. 1 (June 2006):59-83.
• "On the Equilibrium Properties of Locational Sorting Models," with Patrick Bayer. Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 57 (2005):462-477.
• "How Do Changes in Welfare Law Affect Domestic Violence? An Analysis of Connecticut Towns, 1990 - 2000," with Jennifer Nou. Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 34, n. 2 (June 2005):445-470.
• "Estimable Equilibrium Models of Locational Sorting and Their Role in Development Economics." Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 5 (January 2005):83-100.
• "Measuring the Dynamic Efficiency Costs of Regulators' Preferences: Municipal Water Utilities in the Arid West." Econometrica, Vol. 70, n. 2 (March 2002):603-629.
• "Does the Median Voter Consume Too Much Water? Analyzing the Redistributive Role of Residential Water Bills." National Tax Journal, Vol. LV, n. 4 (December 2002):687-702.
• "Demand-Side Technology Standards Under Inefficient Pricing Regimes: Are They Effective Water Conservation Tools in the Long-Run?" Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 26, n. 1 (September 2003):107-124. (Also in Current Issues in the Economics of Water Resource Management: Theory, Applications, and Policy, P. Pashardes, T. Swanson, and A. Xepapadeas (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2002)
• "Social Exclusion and the Two-Tiered Healthcare System of Brazil," with Denisard Alves In Who's In and Who's Out: Social Exclusion in Latin America, Behrman, Gaviria, and Szekely (eds.), Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, 2003.

Working Papers

• "Recovering the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Ozone: How Panel Data Can be Used to Easily Estimate Hedonic Demand Functions," with Kelly Bishop (2008)
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• "Simple, Consistent Estimation of the Marginal Willingness to Pay Function: Recovering Rosen's Second Stage Without Instrumental Variables," with Kelly Bishop (2008)
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• "Estimating Network Economies in Retail Chains: A Revealed Preference Approach," with Stephanie Houghton and Paul Ellickson (2007)
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• "Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life," with Thomas Deleire (2006)
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• "The impact of piped water provision on infant mortality in Brazil: A quantile panel data approach," with Shanti Gamper-Rabindran and Shakeeb Khan (2007)
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• "Nonparametric Identification and Estimation in a Generalized Roy Model," with Patrick Bayer and Shakeeb Khan (2006)
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• "Migration and Hedonic Valuation: The Case of Air Quality," with Nathaniel Keohane and Patrick Bayer (2005)
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• "Regional Subsidies and Industrial Prospects of Lagging Regions," with Alexandre Carvalho and Somik Lall (2005)
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• "Poverty Measurement in the Presence of Spatially Varying Prices and Non-Marketed Consumption" (2004)
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• "Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the 'Pollution Havens' Hypothesis," with Ulrich Wagner (2004)
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• "Health and Climate Change in the Developing World: The Impact of Global Warming on Brazilian Morbidity Patterns" (2003)
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Teaching and Advising Activity

• Economics 55, Intermediate Microeconomics
• Economics 163, Environmental Economics
• Economics 395(a), Non-Market Valuation
• Economics 395(b), Externalities and Pigouvian Policy

Graduate Advising -- Past Advisees

Guenter Hitsch (University of Chicago GSB), Minchul Kim (Korean Research Institute), Marcela Melendez (Deputy Director, Fedesarrollo, Bogata, Columbia), Nickolay Moshkin (Cornerstone Economic Consulting, NY), Jennifer Murdock (University of Toronto), Katja Seim (Wharton), Matthias Schuendeln (Harvard University), Juan Carranza (University of Wisconsin), Jane Cooley (University of Wisconsin), Shanjun Li (SUNY Stony Brook), Kelly Bishop (Wash U. Olin School), Patrick Dudley (GAO), Stephen Finger (U South Carolina), Stephanie Houghton (Texas A&M), Alvin Murphy (Wash U. Olin School), Denis Nekipelov (UC Berkeley), Katherine Dickinson (RWJ Fellowship), Junjie Zhang (UC San Diego)

Graduate Advising -- Current Thesis Advisees (Duke Economics)

Shouyue Yu, Tatyana Kuzmenko

Graduate Advising -- Current Thesis Advisees (Nicholas School of the Environment)

Soumya Hassan, Ling Huang,

Graduate Advising -- Current Thesis Advisees (North Carolina State University, Other)

Allen Klaiber, Rotua Lumbantobing, Simone Bauch, Andrea Szabo (U Minnesota)