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 Tiebout’s 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 EPA’s 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)

Honor’s 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 Tiebout’s 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