Browsing by Author "Timmins, C"
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Does the median voter consume too much water? Analyzing the redistributive role of residential water bills
(National Tax Journal, 2002-12-01)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 their ... -
Estimating equilibrium models of sorting across locations
(Economic Journal, 2007-03-01)While there is growing interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers, it is well understood that such spillovers cannot be distinguished from unobservable local attributes using solely the observed location ... -
How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy?
(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
(Journal of Regional Science, 2007-02-01)This paper presents an empirical technique for valuing large changes in nonmarketed local attributes (e.g., climate amenities) without data describing prices of locally traded commodities like housing. A model of endogenous ... -
Measuring the dynamic efficiency costs of regulators' preferences: Municipal water utilities in the Arid West
(Econometrica, 2002-04-13)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. This ... -
Migration and hedonic valuation: The case of air quality
(Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2009-07-01)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 ... -
The impact of piped water provision on infant mortality in Brazil: A quantile panel data approach
(Journal of Development Economics, 2010-07-01)We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a recently developed econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of ...
