Christopher Timmins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Timmins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Timmins |
| SIGNATURE | TIMMINS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4792-4943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Information, migration, and the value of clean air
Housing Discrimination and the Toxics Exposure Gap in the United States: Evidence from the Rental Market
Local pollution exposures have a disproportionate impact on minority households, but the root causes remain unclear. This study conducts a correspondence experiment on a major online housing platform to test whether housing discrimination constrains minority access to housing options in markets with significant sources of airborne chemical toxics. We find that renters with African American or Hispanic/Latinx names are 41% less likely than renters…
Sorting or Steering: The Effects of Housing Discrimination on Neighborhood Choice
Growing evidence indicates that neighborhoods affect human capital accumulation, raising concern that the exclusionary effects of housing discrimination could contribute to persistent inequality in the United States. Using data from HUD’s most recent Housing Discrimination Study and microlevel data on neighborhood attributes in 28 US cities, we find that minorities are steered toward neighborhoods with less economic opportunity and greater exposu…
Market tremors: Shale gas exploration, earthquakes, and their impact on house prices
Shale gas has grown to become a major new source of energy in countries around the globe. While its importance for energy supply is well recognized, there has also been public concern over potential risks from hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’). Although commercial development has not yet taken place in the UK, licenses for drilling were issued in 2008, signalling potential future development. This paper examines whether public fears about frackin…
Estimating the marginal willingness to pay function without instrumental variables
Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution
The grassroots movement that placed environmental justice issues on the national stage around 1980 was soon followed up by research documenting the correlation between pollution and race and poverty. This work has established inequitable exposure to nuisances as a stylized fact of social science. In this paper, we review the environmental justice literature, especially where it intersects with work by economists. First we consider the literature …
Nonparametric Identification and Estimation in a Roy Model With Common Nonpecuniary Returns
We consider identification and estimation of a Roy model that includes a common nonpecuniary utility component associated with each choice alternative. This augmented Roy model has broader applications to many polychotomous choice problems in addition to occupational sorting. We develop a pair of nonparametric estimators for this model, derive asymptotics, and illustrate small-sample properties with a series of Monte Carlo experiments. We apply o…
Migration and hedonic valuation: The case of air quality
The impact of piped water provision on infant mortality in Brazil: A quantile panel data approach
Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations
While there is growing interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers, it is well understood that such spillovers cannot be distinguished from unobservable local attributes using solely the observed location decisions of individuals or firms. We propose an empirical strategy for recovering estimates of spillovers in the presence of unobserved local attributes for a broadly applicable class of equilibrium sorting models. Our approach…
Estimable equilibrium models of locational sorting and their role in development economics
Geography plays a prominent role in many problems in development economics—directly in analyses of the spatial distribution of important variables like poverty and productivity, and indirectly through the role of local spillovers in economic growth. Empirical work on these topics is complicated by the fact that the behavioral consequences of such spillovers cannot be distinguished from those of unobservable local attributes using only the observe…
Estimating spatial differences in the Brazilian cost of living with household location choices
On the equilibrium properties of locational sorting models
Who's In and Who's Out: Social Exclusion in Latin America
Social exclusion is closely linked with many economic problems in Latin America, as it prevents people from reaching their full productive potential -in turn constraining growth and revenues- and makes them more likely to incur public health and social service costs. Who's In and Who's Out explores various forms of social exclusion, including residential segregation in Bolivian cities, exclusion from health care in Brazil, barriers to legal statu…
The impact of piped water provision on infant mortality in Brazil: A quantile panel data approach
Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution
The grassroots movement that placed environmental justice issues on the national stage around 1980 was soon followed up by research documenting the correlation between pollution and race and poverty. This work has established inequitable exposure to nuisances as a stylized fact of social science. In this paper, we review the environmental justice literature, especially where it intersects with work by economists. First we consider the literature …
Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations
While there is growing interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers, it is well understood that such spillovers cannot be distinguished from unobservable local attributes using solely the observed location decisions of individuals or firms. We propose an empirical strategy for recovering estimates of spillovers in the presence of unobserved local attributes for a broadly applicable class of equilibrium sorting models. Our approach…
Sorting or Steering: The Effects of Housing Discrimination on Neighborhood Choice
Growing evidence indicates that neighborhoods affect human capital accumulation, raising concern that the exclusionary effects of housing discrimination could contribute to persistent inequality in the United States. Using data from HUD’s most recent Housing Discrimination Study and microlevel data on neighborhood attributes in 28 US cities, we find that minorities are steered toward neighborhoods with less economic opportunity and greater exposu…
On the equilibrium properties of locational sorting models
Estimating spatial differences in the Brazilian cost of living with household location choices
Information, migration, and the value of clean air
Estimable equilibrium models of locational sorting and their role in development economics
Geography plays a prominent role in many problems in development economics—directly in analyses of the spatial distribution of important variables like poverty and productivity, and indirectly through the role of local spillovers in economic growth. Empirical work on these topics is complicated by the fact that the behavioral consequences of such spillovers cannot be distinguished from those of unobservable local attributes using only the observe…
Who's In and Who's Out: Social Exclusion in Latin America
Social exclusion is closely linked with many economic problems in Latin America, as it prevents people from reaching their full productive potential -in turn constraining growth and revenues- and makes them more likely to incur public health and social service costs. Who's In and Who's Out explores various forms of social exclusion, including residential segregation in Bolivian cities, exclusion from health care in Brazil, barriers to legal statu…
Estimable equilibrium models of locational sorting and their role in development economics
Geography plays a prominent role in many problems in development economics—directly in analyses of the spatial distribution of important variables like poverty and productivity, and indirectly through the role of local spillovers in economic growth. Empirical work on these topics is complicated by the fact that the behavioral consequences of such spillovers cannot be distinguished from those of unobservable local attributes using only the observe…
Estimating spatial differences in the Brazilian cost of living with household location choices
On the equilibrium properties of locational sorting models
Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations
While there is growing interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers, it is well understood that such spillovers cannot be distinguished from unobservable local attributes using solely the observed location decisions of individuals or firms. We propose an empirical strategy for recovering estimates of spillovers in the presence of unobserved local attributes for a broadly applicable class of equilibrium sorting models. Our approach…
Migration and hedonic valuation: The case of air quality
The impact of piped water provision on infant mortality in Brazil: A quantile panel data approach
Nonparametric Identification and Estimation in a Roy Model With Common Nonpecuniary Returns
We consider identification and estimation of a Roy model that includes a common nonpecuniary utility component associated with each choice alternative. This augmented Roy model has broader applications to many polychotomous choice problems in addition to occupational sorting. We develop a pair of nonparametric estimators for this model, derive asymptotics, and illustrate small-sample properties with a series of Monte Carlo experiments. We apply o…
Estimating the marginal willingness to pay function without instrumental variables
Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution
The grassroots movement that placed environmental justice issues on the national stage around 1980 was soon followed up by research documenting the correlation between pollution and race and poverty. This work has established inequitable exposure to nuisances as a stylized fact of social science. In this paper, we review the environmental justice literature, especially where it intersects with work by economists. First we consider the literature …
Market tremors: Shale gas exploration, earthquakes, and their impact on house prices
Shale gas has grown to become a major new source of energy in countries around the globe. While its importance for energy supply is well recognized, there has also been public concern over potential risks from hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’). Although commercial development has not yet taken place in the UK, licenses for drilling were issued in 2008, signalling potential future development. This paper examines whether public fears about frackin…
Housing Discrimination and the Toxics Exposure Gap in the United States: Evidence from the Rental Market
Local pollution exposures have a disproportionate impact on minority households, but the root causes remain unclear. This study conducts a correspondence experiment on a major online housing platform to test whether housing discrimination constrains minority access to housing options in markets with significant sources of airborne chemical toxics. We find that renters with African American or Hispanic/Latinx names are 41% less likely than renters…
Sorting or Steering: The Effects of Housing Discrimination on Neighborhood Choice
Growing evidence indicates that neighborhoods affect human capital accumulation, raising concern that the exclusionary effects of housing discrimination could contribute to persistent inequality in the United States. Using data from HUD’s most recent Housing Discrimination Study and microlevel data on neighborhood attributes in 28 US cities, we find that minorities are steered toward neighborhoods with less economic opportunity and greater exposu…
Information, migration, and the value of clean air
Economics (13 works) · Housing Market and Economics (8 works) · Econometrics (7 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (7 works) · Microeconomics (5 works) · Sorting (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works)