Christopher D. Timmins is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Duke University, with a secondary appointment in Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. He holds a BSFS degree from Georgetown University and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. Professor Timmins was an Assistant Professor in the Yale Department of Economics before joining the faculty at Duke in 2004. His professional activities include teaching, research, and editorial responsibilities. Professor Timmins specializes in natural resource 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 is a research associate in the Environmental and Energy Economics group at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has served as a reviewer for numerous environmental, urban, and applied microeconomics journals as well as governments agencies and foundations. He has served as a co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and as an editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
School Division
Environmental Social SystemsEducation
- Ph.D., Stanford University (1997)
- B.S., Georgetown University (1991)
Websites
Recent Grants
- Collaborative Research: The Impacts of Racial Discrimination on Housing Choice and Welfare in the United States awarded by National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: The Impacts of Racial Discrimination on Housing Choice and Welfare in the United States awarded by National Science Foundation
- Welfare Impacts of Housing Discrimination on Locational Choice awarded by University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
- Welfare Impacts of Housing Discrimination on Locational Choice awarded by University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
- Information Policy for the Development of U.S. Shale Gas Resource: Property Rights, Leases, Competition and Regulation awarded by National Science Foundation
Recent Publications
- Journal of Development Economics 163, ( ):
- Journal of Political Economy 130, no. 8 ( ): 2110 - 2163
- The Review of Economics and Statistics 104, no. 4 ( ): 807 - 818
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 114, ( ):
- J Affect Disord 300, ( ): 430 - 440