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

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

Employment

Duke
University, Department of
Economics, Associate Professor, 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

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

Empirical Microeconomics, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics,
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. Forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management.
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Abstract -- Paper in PDF Format

"If
You Can't Take the Heat, Get Out of the Cerrado...
Recovering the Equilibrium Amenity Cost of Non-Marginal Climate Change in
Brazil."
Forthcoming in Journal of
Regional Science.
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-- Paper in PDF
Format

"Estimating
Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations," with Patrick Bayer.  Forthcoming in Economic Journal.

"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

"Roy
Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical
Life," with Thomas Deleire (2006)
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-- Paper in PDF
Format

"Nonparametric
Identification and Estimation in a Generalized Roy Model," with Patrick Bayer
and Shakeeb Khan (2006)
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Abstract -- Paper
in PDF Format

"Migration
and Hedonic Valuation: The Case of Air Quality," with Nathaniel Keohane and Patrick Bayer (2005)
Paper in
PDF Format -- Accompanying Maps in PDF Format

"Regional
Subsidies and Industrial Prospects of Lagging Regions," with Alexandre Carvalho and Somik Lall (2005)
Paper in Word Format

"Poverty
Measurement in the Presence of Spatially Varying Prices and Non-Marketed
Consumption" (2004)
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-- Paper in
PDF Format

"Agglomeration
Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the 'Pollution Havens' Hypothesis,"
with Ulrich Wagner (2004)
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Abstract -- Paper in PDF Format

"Health
and Climate Change in the Developing World: The Impact of Global Warming on
Brazilian Morbidity Patterns" (2003)
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Abstract -- Paper in PDF Format

"Measuring
the Value of Varietal Technology in Brazilian
Agriculture" (2003)
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Abstract -- Paper in PDF Format

"Bounding
the Influence of Attrition on Intertemporal Wage
Variation in the NLSY," with Thomas MaCurdy (2002)

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Abstract -- Paper in PDF Format

"The
Future of the Asian Petroleum Market: Implications of Petroleum Substitutes,"
with Robert Evenson (2001)
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Abstract -- Paper in PDF Format

Teaching and Advising Activity

Duke University Courses

Economics
55, Intermediate Microeconomics

Economics
163, Environmental Economics

Economics
329, Theory Public Economics

Yale
University Courses

Ecology
& Evolutionary Biology 110, Environmental Studies

Economics
150, The Theory of Resource Allocation and Its Application

Economics
283, Public Responses to Market Imperfections

Economics
325, Economics of Developing Countries

Economics
482, The Economics of Environment and Development

Economics
680, Public Finance

Economics
732, Economic Development

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 (US Department of
Justice), Katja Seim
(Stanford GSB), Matthias Schuendeln (Harvard
University), Juan Carranza (University of Wisconsin),
Jane Cooley (University of Wisconsin)

Graduate Advising -- Current Advisees

Stephanie Houghton, Katherine Dickinson, Joshua Kinsler, Shanjun Li, Stephen
Finger, Patrick Dudley, Kelly Bishop, Alvin Murphy, Denis Nekipelov

Undergraduate Advising (Duke
University)

·
Supervisor to Senior Theses in Economics
(2005-06)

Undergraduate Advising (Yale
University)

o
Freshman Advisor,
Calhoun
College (1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01,
2002-03)

o
Sophomore Advisor,
Timothy
Dwight
College (1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01,
2001-02, 2002-03)

o
Research Opportunities in Math and Economics
(1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)

o
Supervisor to Senior Theses in Economics;
Environmental Studies; Latin American Studies; and Ethics, Politics, and
Economics Majors

Other Professional Activities

Referee

Environmental and Resource Economics,
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, National
Tax Journal, Journal of Population Economics, Journal
of Public Economics, International Economic Review,
Economic Journal, Journal of Applied Econometrics,
Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Business and
Economic Statistics, Journal of Quantitative Economics,
National Science Foundation, Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico,
The Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economic
Studies

Program Participant

o
Stanford Institute for
Theoretical Economics, Stanford, California (July, 2006) -- Presenter

o
Econometrics Society
Summer Meetings, Minneapolis, Minnesota (June, 2006) -- Presenter

o
AEA Annual Meetings,
Boston, Massachusetts (January, 2006) -- Discussant

o
North Carolina State
University: Camp Resources, Wilmington, North Carolina (August 2005) --
Presenter

o
NBER Summer Institute,
Cambridge,
Massachusetts (July 2005) -- Presenter

o
AAEA Annual Meetings,
Providence, Rhode
Island (July 2005) -- Discussant

o
Colorado
University Environmental and Resource
Economics Workshop, Vail, Colorado
(October 2004) -- Keynote Speaker

o
Brown
University S4 Colloquia Series,
Providence, Rhode
Island (September 2004) -- Invited Lecturer

o
North
Carolina State
University:
Camp
Resources,
Wilmington, North
Carolina (August 2004) -- Discussant

o
AERE Summer Workshop 2004: Distributional Effects
of Environmental Policy, Estes Park,
Colorado (June 2004) -- Presenter

o
4th Annual Public Economic Theory Conference,
Durham, North
Carolina (June 2003) -- Presenter

o
WIDER Conference on Inequality, Poverty and Human
Well-Being, Helsinki,
Finland (May 2003) --
Presenter

o
Workshop on Equilibrium Modeling Approaches at
the Boundaries of Industrial Organization, Public Economics, and Environmental
Economics, Stanford,
California (February 2003) -- Presenter

o
WIDER Conference on Spatial Inequality in
Latin America, Puebla,
Mexico (Nov 2002) --
Presenter

o
IPEA Conference -- Diferenciais de Salarios no Brasil, Brasilia,
Brazil (Nov 2002) --
Presenter

o
NBER Summer Institute,
Cambridge,
Massachusetts (Aug 2002) -- Discussant

o
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics,
Stanford,
California (August 2001) -- Presenter

o
Inter-American Development Bank Conference on
Social Exclusion, Mexico City,
Mexico (July 2001) --
Presenter

o
Potential Economic and Technological Impacts of
Climate Change and Agricultural Research on Land Use and Productivity in
PROCISUR Countries, São
Paulo, Brazil
(Dec 2000) -- Organizer

o
Symposium on Water Resource Management:
Efficiency, Equity, and Policy, Nicosia,
Cyprus (Sep 2000) --
Presenter and Discussant

o
International Consortium on Agricultural
Biotechnology Research, Ravello,
Italy (Aug 2000) --
Presenter & Discussant

o
International Conference on Quantile Regressions, Konstanz,
Germany (June 2000) --
Presenter

o
Cowles Conference on Strategy and Decision
Making, New Haven,
Connecticut (May 2000) -- Presenter

o
Johns
Hopkins Applied Microeconomics
Conference, Baltimore,
Maryland (Apr 2000) -- Presenter

o
XXI Encontro Brasileiro de Econometria,
Belem,
Brazil (Dec 1999) -- wrote
and taught short-course: "Structural Models in Environmental Economics"

o
Núcleo de Estudos e Modelos Espaciais Sistêmicos Pronex Conference, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
(Dec 1999) -- Presenter

o
NBER Summer Institute,
Cambridge,
Massachusetts (Aug 1999) -- Presenter

o
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics,
Stanford,
California (July 1998) -- Presenter

o
NBER Winter Productivity Group Meeting,
Cambridge,
Massachusetts (Dec 1997) -- Discussant

Service
(Duke
University)

o
University Information Technology Advisory
Council (2005-06)

o
Economics Department Microeconomics Junior/Senior
Recruiting (2005-06)

o
Sanford
School of Public Policy Recruiting
(2005-06)

o
Economics Department Executive Committee
(2005-06)

o
Director, Micro-Incentives Research Center
(2005-06)

Service (Yale University)

§
Environmental Studies Program Advisory Committee
(1998-04)

§
Enviromental Studies
Program Advisory Committee, Subcommittee for the Stand-Alone Major (2000-01)

§
University Committee on Teaching and Learning
(1998-03)

§
Economics Department, Graduate Admissions
Committee (1997-98, 1998-99, 2002-03)

§
Economics Department, Junior Recruiting Committee
(1999-00)

§
Marshall Scholarship, Campus Interview Committee
(1999)

§
Fulbright Scholarship Committee (1998)

§
Economics Department, Undergraduate Advisory
Committee (2000-01)

Posted 22 September
2006

http://www.econ.duke.edu/~timmins/cv.html