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Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis

Wagner, Ulrich J.; Timmins, Christopher (SSRN, 2008)

Does environmental regulation impair international competitiveness of pollutionintensive industries to the extent that they relocate to countries with less stringent regulation, turning those countries into“pollution ...
Does the Median Voter Consume Too Much Water? Analyzing the Redistributive Role of Residential Water Bills

Timmins, Christopher (SSRN, 2002)

According to allocative efficiency criteria, water in the American West is often underpriced in urban sales. The political-economic process that motivates municipal managers to impose the resulting deadweight losses on ...
Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations

Bayer, Dr Patrick; Timmins, Christopher (SSRN, 2005)

With the growing recognition of the role played by geography in all sorts of economic problems, there is strong interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e., simple anonymous agglomeration or ...
How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy?

Timmins, Christopher; Li, Shanjun; von Haefen, Roger H. (AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC, 2009)

Exploiting a rich dataset of passenger vehicle registrations in 20 US MSAs from 1997 to 2005, we examine the effects of gasoline prices on the automotive fleet's composition. We find that high gasoline prices affect fleet ...
If You Cannot Take the Heat, Get Out of the Cerrado & Recovering the Equilibrium Amenity Cost of Nonmarginal Climate Change in Brazil

Timmins, Christopher (SSRN, 2003)

This paper presents a technique for valuing large changes in non-marketed local attributes (e.g., climate amenities) without data describing prices of locally traded commodities like housing. A model of endogenous local ...
The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach

Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Khan, Shakeeb; Timmins, Christopher (SSRN, 2008)

We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water ...
Measuring the Dynamic Efficiency Costs of Regulators' Preferences: Municipal Water Utilities in the Arid West

Timmins, Christopher (Econometrica, 2002)

Evidence suggests that municipal water utility administrators in the western US price water significantly below its marginal cost and, in so doing, inefficiently exploit aquifer stocks and induce social surplus losses. ...
Migration and Hedonic Valuation: The Case of Air Quality

Bayer, Dr Patrick; Keohane, Nathaniel O.; Timmins, Christopher (SSRN eLibrary, 2006)

Conventional hedonic techniques for estimating the value of local amenities rely on the assumption that households move freely among locations. We show that when moving is costly, the variation in housing prices and wages ...
Nonparametric Identification and Estimation in a Generalized Roy Model

Bayer, Patrick; Khan, Shakeeb; Timmins, Christopher (SSRN, 2008)

This paper considers nonparametric identification and estimation of a generalized Roy model that includes a non-pecuniary component of utility associated with each choice alternative. Previous work has found that, without ...