Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor
Wisconsin School of Business | Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics
Hometown: Wilmington, DE
Christopher Timmins is the Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor in the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department at the Wisconsin School of Business. He holds a BSFS degree from Georgetown University and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. Professor Timmins specializes in urban 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”.
Talks:
Environmental Injustice: Causes, Correlations and Consequences
The history of the environmental justice movement in the US, how we measure inequitable exposures to environmental harms, and the systemic forces that lead to those inequities. Includes discussion of a number of current research projects.
Housing Discrimination in the United States: Past and Present
History of systemic racism in US housing markets and results from research on discrimination in rental and owner-occupied housing markets today.
Housing Markets and the Role of Discrimination in Environmental Justice
A combination of the first two talks, with a particular emphasis on the role that steering in housing markets plays in creating inequitable exposures to environmental harms.