Applying Economic Insights in Pursuit of Environmental and Housing Justice
Chris Timmins | Championing People-Centered Real Estate | Wisconsin School of Business
About Christopher
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.
Selected Published Journal Articles
Bhavsar, N. & Jowers, K. & Yang, L. & Guha, S. & Lin, X. & Peskoe, S. & McManus, H. & McElroy, L. & Bravo, M. & Reiter, J. & Whitsel, E. & Timmins, C. (2024). The Association between Long-term PM2.5 Exposure and Risk for Pancreatic Cancer: An Application of Social Informatics American Journal of Epidemiology
Jowers, K. & Ma, Y. & Timmins, C. (2024). The Costs of Exposure to Industrial Livestock Operations Land Economics
Liang, W. & Song, R. & Timmins, C. (2024). Frictional Sorting: The Impacts of Dual Constraints on Mobility and Housing Supply in China International Economic Review
Gao, X. & Song, R. & Timmins, C. (2024). The Fertility Consequences of Air Pollution in China Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Cain, L. & Hernandez-Cortes, D. & Timmins, C. & Weber, P. (2024). Recent Findings and Methodologies in Economics Research in Environmental Justice Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
Gao, X. & Song, R. & Timmins, C. (2023). Information, Migration, and the Value of Clean Air Journal of Development Economics
Christensen, P. & Timmins, C. (2023). The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market Quarterly Journal of Economics
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). Estimating the Impacts of Brownfield Remediation on Housing Property Values 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. & Smith, A. & Timmins, C. (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
Bajari, P. & Fruehwirth, J. & Kim, K. & Timmins, C. (2012). A Rational Expectations Approach to Hedonic Price Regressions with Time-Varying Unobserved Product Attributes: The Price of Pollution American Economic Review
Jowers, K. & Ma, L. & Timmins, C. Racial Gaps in Federal Flood Buyout Compensations AEA: Papers and Proceedings
Presentations
Midwest Finance Association (2025) Discrimination During Eviction Moratoria
Seminar at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024) Discrimination Under Eviction Moratoria
18th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association (2024) Discrimination During Eviction Moratoria
The Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium (2024) Discrimination During the Eviction Moratoria
NBER Summer Institute Real Estate (2024) Discrimination During the Eviction Moratoria
Auctions, Firm Behavior and Policy Conference (2024) Discrimination During the Eviction Moratoria
Conference On Housing Affordability, Office Real Estate, And Remote Work (2024) Discrimination During the Eviction Moratoria
UCLA Conference on Low-Income Housing Supply and and Housing Affordability (2024) Discrimination During the Eviction Moratoria
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Hear Chris Timmins on why some populations are more exposed to toxins in their homes
Transcript
There’s a number of reasons why some groups are more exposed to toxins and other pollutants in their homes. Low-income groups and people of color have borne the brunt of pollution in the United States for decades. The evidence on this goes back to the earliest work in the environmental justice field in the 1980s, and since that time, researchers have uncovered a number of explanations.
One is that pollution sources have typically been cited in disadvantaged communities, often because the groups there have lacked the social or political capital to fight back.
Another is that low-income individuals may end up being forced into trade-offs between, for example, having adequate resources to feed their families versus living further away from pollution. To a large extent, inequality and pollution exposure in our country is a result of income inequality.
A third explanation is that discrimination may constrain the choices available to households of color, making it hard for them to find housing options in unpolluted neighborhoods, even if they have the resources to afford those options.
Much of our research here at UW–Madison deals with the mechanisms leading to these forms of environmental injustice and suggesting policy responses to deal with them.
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