RANDALL P. WALSH
Curriculum Vitae
August, 2008
Department of Economics Phone (412) 648-1737
University of Pittsburgh Fax (412) 648-3011
4901 WW Posvar Hall E-mail walshr@pitt.edu
230 S. Bouquet St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Research Interests
Applied Micro Economics, Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Urban Economics, Labor Economics
Education
Ph.D. Economics Duke, University, Fall 2002
B.A. Economics, Summa Cum Laude, Presidential Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa,
Rosen Prize, University of New Hampshire, May 1996
Professional
Appointments
University of Colorado, Instructor 2001 2002
University of Colorado, Assistant Professor 2002 2008
Institute for Behavioral Sciences,
Faculty Research Associate 2004 2008
University of Pittsburgh, Associate Professor 2008 Present
Economic Inquiry, Associate Editor 2008 Present
Grants
National Institute for Health, Decomposing Neighborhood Change, 2008-2009 with T. McKinnish and T. K. White ($150,000)
University of Colorado Population Center Development Grant, Decomposing Neighborhood Change, 2007-2008 with T. McKinnish ($10,082).
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Migratory Effects of Second Home Ownership, 2006-2007 ($32,000).
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Conservation Voted, 2005-2006 with W. Oates, S. Banzhaf and J. Sanchiricho ($90,000).
National Science Foundation SES-03-21566, Collaborative Research: Neighborhood Choice, Environmental Justice, and Policy Analysis, 2003-2005 with N. Flores & S. Banzhaf ($345,000).
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Project on Urban Sprawl, 2002-2003 with T. Nechyba ($20,000).
Resources for the Future Dissertation Fellowship
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Dissertation Fellowship
Refereed Publications
The Effects of Gender Interactions in the Lab and in the Field with K. Antonovics & P. Arcidiacono, Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.
Do People Vote with Their Feet? An Empirical Test of Tiebouts Mechanism with H.S. Banzhaf American Economic Review, (2008).
Communities, Competition, Spillovers, and Open Space with A. Strong, Land Economics, (2008).
Building the Family Nest: A Collective Household Model with Competing Pre-Marital Investments and Spousal Matching with M. Iyigun, Review of Economic Studies (2007).
Endogenous Open Space Amenities in a Locational Equilibrium, Journal of Urban Economics (2007).
Endogenous Gender Power, Household Labor Supply & the Demographic Transition with M. Iyigun, Journal of Development Economics (2007).
Games and Discrimination: Lessons from the Weakest Link with K. Antonovics & P. Arcidiacono, Journal of Human Resources (2005).
Urban Sprawl" with Tom Nechyba, Journal of Economic Perspectives
(2004).
Estimating the General Equilibrium Benefits of Large Changes in Spatially Delineated Public Goods with H.Sieg, V.K. Smith, and H.S. Banzhaf, International Economic Review, (2004).
Reprinted in Revealed Preference Approaches to Environmental Valuation: Volume II,
J. Herriges and C. Kling (eds.), The
International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy Series, Ashgate
(London), forthcoming.
General Equilibrium Benefit Transfers for Spatial Externalities: Revisiting EPAs Prospective Analysis with H.Sieg, V.K. Smith, and H.S. Banzhaf, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2004).
Reprinted in Revealed Preference Approaches to Environmental Valuation: Volume II,
J. Herriges and C. Kling (eds.), The
International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy Series, Ashgate
(London), forthcoming.
Interjurisdictional Housing Prices in Locational Equilibrium with H.Sieg, V.K. Smith, and H.S. Banzhaf, Journal of Urban Economics, (2002).
Implementing Value Added Measures of School Performance, Are We Getting the Incentives Right? with H. Ladd, Economics of Education Review, (2002).
Do Painless Environmental Policies Exist? with V. K. Smith, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, (2000).
The Role of Optimizing Behavior in Willingness to Pay Estimates for Air Quality with H. Sieg, V.K. Smith, and H.S. Banzhaf, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, (1999).
Working Papers
Who Gentrifies Poor Neighborhoods? with T. McKinnish and T.K. White (NBER Working Paper #14036).
Race, Environment and Neighborhood Choice with H.S. Banzhaf, and J. Sidon.
Second Home Tax Rates and the Demand for Second Homes with Erik Johnson.
Community Composition and the Evolution of Plant Toxicity with H.S. Banzhaf..
Measuring Open Space: The Impact of Metric Choice on Policy Evaluation
Teaching Experience
Undergraduate:
Environmental Economics for non-majors
Environmental Economics for majors
Economics in Action: Urban Economics
Statistics with Computer Applications
Honors Seminar
Ph.D.:
Ph.D. Research Seminar
Environmental Economics II
Empirical Industrial Organization
Topics in Environmental and Urban Econonmics
Advising
Ph.D.
Main Advisor:
Josh Sidon (completed 2006)
Erik Johnson (completed 2008)
Megan Harrod
Jose Ivan Rodriguez Sanchez
Craig Kerr
Committee Member:
Phillip Gale (completed 2001)
Aaron Strong (completed 2004)
Thitima Puttitanun (completed 2002)
Phil Prosseda (completed 2003)
Derek Kellenberg (completed 2004)
Jared Carbone (completed 2004)
Stephanie Martin (completed 2005)
Kiyoshi Yonemoto (completed 2006)
Aric Shafran
Said Boakye
Stephen Billingsly
Michael Snipes
James Holladay
Masters
Committee Member:
Jessica Wagner (complete 2002)
Pongchan Prukprasert (completed 2002)
Undergraduate (Honors Thesis)
Main Advisor:
Kathryn Landyut
Karen Edwards (Environmental Studies)
David Trace
Carolyn Wagner
Anne Reinhart
Gregory Bland
Committee member:
Mandi Lane (Environmental Studies)
Peer Review
American Economic Review
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Natural Hazards Review
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Land Economics
Journal of Public Economics
Journal of Urban Economics
Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics
Journal of Business Economics and Statistics
Journal of Economic Geography
Journal of Regulatory Economics
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Regional Science and Urban Economics.
Journal of Regional Science
Departmental Service
Research Committee (2001)
Fundraising Committee (2002)
Graduate Curriculum Committee (2003-2004)
Empirical IO Search Committee (2003-2004)
Seminar Room Renovation Committee (2003)
IBS Health Behavior Search Committee (2004-2005)
Chair Computer Resources Committee (2004-2005)
Graduate Admissions Committee (2004-2005)
Chair Graduate Admissions Committee (2005-2007)
Outcomes Assessment Committee (2005-2006)
Econometrics Search Committee (2006-2007)
Honors Council (2004-2005 & 2006-2007)
Research Seminar
Presentations
Race, Environment and
Neighborhood Choice
ASSA Meetings 2006
University of Central Florida 2006
3rd World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economics, Kyoto, Japan 2006
University of Wisconsin 2007
University of Illinois 2007
University of Pittsburgh 2007
University of California, Los Angeles 2007
Brown University 2008
Do People Vote with
Their Feet? An Empirical Test of Tiebouts Mechanism
NBER Summer Workshop on Environmental Economics 2005
California Occasional Environmental Workshop 2005
Tufts University - 2006
Oregon State University - 2006
University of Minnesota 2006
University of California, Riverside 2006
Colorado State University 2007
University of Nevada, Reno 2007
Zurich University 2007
Measuring Open Space
NSF Bio-Complexity Program Conference, Santa, Fe NM 2005
Sprawl and Open Space
Washington University, St. Louis 2004
Conference on Landscape Amenities, Dijon France 2005
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy 2006
Endogenous Open Space Amenities in a
Locational Equilibrium
Camp Resources 2000
University of Wisconsin 2001
University of Colorado 2001
Colorado State University 2001
Syracuse University 2001
College of William and Mary 2001
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2001
University of Kentucky 2001
University of New Hampshire 2001
University of Toronto 2002
ASSA Meetings 2003
University of California, Santa Barbara 2003
AERE Summer Workshop, Madison Wisconsin 2003
University of Maine 2003
University of Maryland 2004
University of Wyoming - 2004
Community Composition
and the Evolution of Plant Toxicity
Western Economics Association Meetings 2003
Second World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists 2002
Communities,
Competition, Spillovers, and Open Space
Public Economic Theory Workshop, Duke University 2003
Southern Economic Association Meetings 2003
Games and Discrimination: Lessons from the Weakest Link
University of Colorado, Denver 2003
University of Colorado 2003
Locational Equilibrium Models
University of California, Santa Barbara 2002
The Role of Optimizing Behavior in Willingness to Pay Estimates for Air Quality
Camp Resources 1999
Econometrics Society Winter Meetings - 2000
ASSA Meetings - 2000
Triangle Econometrics Conference 1999
Testing the Effects of Permit Structure on the Willingness of Firms to Invest in Pollution Abatement
Air and Waste Management Association 1999