Christopher Timmins

TL;DR: This article developed an alternative discrete-choice approach that models the household location decision directly, and applied it to the case of air quality in U.S. metro areas in 1990 and 2000.

TL;DR: This paper developed an alternative discrete-choice approach that models the household location decision directly, and applied it to the case of air quality in US metro areas in 1990 and 2000, showing that when moving is costly, the variation in housing prices and wages across locations may no longer reflect the value of differences in local amenities.

TL;DR: Using data from Pennsylvania and an array of empirical techniques to control for confounding factors, the authors recover hedonic estimates of property value impacts from nearby shale gas development that vary with water source, well productivity, and visibility.

TL;DR: This paper reviews the environmental justice literature, especially where it intersects with work by economists, and evaluates the theory and evidence for four possible mechanisms that may lie behind the patterns seen: disproportionate siting on the firm side, "coming to the nuisance" on the household side, market-like coordination of the two, and discriminatory politics and/or enforcement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether environmental regulation impair international competitiveness of pollution-intensive industries to the extent that they relocate to countries with less stringent regulation, turning those countries into "pollution havens".