Biography
Christopher Timmins is the Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor in the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department at the Wisconsin School of Business. Professor Timmins specializes in urban and environmental economics, but he also has interests in industrial organization, development, public and regional economics. He works on developing new methods for non-market valuation of local public goods and amenities, with a particular focus on hedonic techniques and models of residential sorting. His recent research has focused on measuring the costs associated with exposure to poor air quality, the benefits associated with remediating brownfields and toxic waste under the Superfund program, the valuation of non-marginal changes in disamenities, and the causes and consequences of “environmental injustice”.
Professor Timmins has previously served on the faculty at Yale University and Duke University. He holds a BSFS in International Economics from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
Research
Selected Accepted Journal Articles
Timmins, C. & Jowers, K. & Ma, L. (2022). Racial Gaps in Federal Flood Buyout Compensations AEA: Papers and Proceedings
Selected Published Journal Articles
Christensen, P. & Timmins, C. (2022). Sorting or Steering: The Effects of Housing Discrimination on Neighborhood Choice Journal of Political Economy
Timmins, C. & Vissing, A. (2022). Environmental Justice and Coasian Bargaining:? The Role of Race and Income in Lease Negotiations for Shale Gas Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Christensen, P. & Sarmiento-Barbieri, I. & Timmins, C. (2022). Housing Discrimination and Toxics Exposure Gap in the United States: Evidence from the Rental Market Review of Economics and Statistics
Gibbons, S. & Heblich, S. & Timmins, C. (2021). Market Tremors: Shale Gas, Earthquakes, and Their Impact on House Prices Journal of Urban Economics
Bishop, K. & Kuminoff, N. & Banzhaf, S. & Boyle, K. & von Gravenitz, K. & Pope, J. & Smith, V. & Timmins, C. (2020). Best Practices in Using Hedonic Property Value Models for Welfare Measurement Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
Banzhaf, S. & Ma, L. & Timmins, C. (2019). Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution Journal of Economic Perspectives
Banzhaf, S. & Ma, L. & Timmins, C. (2019). Environmental Justice: Establishing Causal Relationships Annual Reviews of Resource Economics
Freeman, R. & Liang, W. & Song, R. & Timmins, C. (2019). Willingness to pay for clean air in China Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Bishop, K. & Timmins, C. (2019). Estimating the marginal willingness to pay function without instrumental variables Journal of Urban Economics
Bishop, K. & Timmins, C. (2018). Using Panel Data to Easily Estimate Hedonic Demand Functions Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Haninger, K. & Ma, L. & Timmins, C. (2017). The Value of Brownfield Remediation Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Bayer, P. & McMillan, R. & Murphy, A. & Timmins, C. (2016). A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods Econometrica
Muehlenbachs, L. & Spiller, E. & Timmins, C. (2015). The Housing Market Impacts of Shale Gas Development American Economic Review
Depro, B. & Timmins, C. & O’Neil, M. (2015). White Flight and Coming to the Nuisance: Can Residential Mobility Explain Environmental Injustice? Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Kuminoff, N. & Schoellman, T. & Timmins, C. (2015). Environmental Regulations and the Welfare Effects of Job Layoffs in the United States: A Spatial Approach Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
Spiller, E. & Stephens, H. & Timmins, C. & Smith, A. (2014). The Effect of Gasoline Taxes and Public Transit Investments on Driving Patterns Environmental and Resource Economics
Kuminoff, N. & Smith, V. & Timmins, C. (2013). The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and Policy Evaluation Using Housing Markets Journal of Economic Literature
Ellickson, P. & Houghton, S. & Timmins, C. (2013). Estimating network economies in retail chains: a revealed preference approach Rand Journal of Economics
Gamper-Rabindran, S. & Timmins, C. (2013). Does Cleanup of Hazardous Waste Sites Raise Housing Values? Evidence of Spatially Localized Benefits Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
DeLeire, T. & Khan, S. & Timmins, C. (2013). Roy Model Sorting and the Value of a Statistical Life International Economic Review
Timmins, C. & Bajari, P. & Fruehwirth, J. & Kim, K. (2012). A Rational Expectations Approach to Hedonic Price Regressions with Time-Varying Unobserved Product Attributes: The Price of Pollution American Economic Review
Presentations
UCLA Conference on Low-Income Housing Supply and and Housing Affordability (2024) Discrimination During the Eviction Moratoria