Nicolai V. Kuminoff
Associate Professor
Arizona State University, Department of Economics
Research Associate
National Bureau of Economic Research
Working Papers
Optimal Second-best Menu Design: Evidence from Residential Electricity Plans
Revision Requested: Journal of the European Economic Association
(with Maria Garcia-Osipenko, Spencer Perry, and Nicholas Vreugdenhil)
The Value of Statistical Life for Seniors
Revision Requested: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(with Jonathan Ketcham, Nirman Saha)
Valuing Noise Pollution: Evidence from Flight Path Changes
(with Jasdeep Mandia)
Selected Publications
Environmental Regulation, Residential Sorting, and Pollution Exposure among Senior Americans
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 2025. 133: 103211.
(with Sayahnika Basu and Jonathan Ketcham)
Tax Policy and the Heterogeneous Costs of Homeownership
Journal of Urban Economics. 2025. 147: 103750.
(with Kelly Bishop, Jakob Dowling, Alvin Murphy)
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The Marginal Cost of Mortality Risk Reduction: Evidence from Housing Markets
Journal of Urban Economics. 2024. 139: 103627.
(with Kelly Bishop, Sophie Mathes, Alvin Murphy)
Residential Sorting, Local Environments, and Human Capital
Regional Science and Urban Economics. 2024. 107: 103972.
(with Sophie Mathes)
Hazed and Confused: The Effect of Air Pollution on Dementia
Review of Economic Studies. 2023. 90(5): 2188-2214.
(with Kelly Bishop, Jonathan Ketcham)
National Expenditures on Local Amenities
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 2023. 117: 102717.
(with David Bieri, Jaren Pope)
Evaluating Consumers Choices of Medicare Part D Plans: A Study in Behavioral Welfare Economics
Journal of Econometrics. 2021. 222(1): 107-140.
(with Michael Keane, Jonathan Ketcham, Tim Neal)
Best Practices in Using Hedonic Property Value Models for Welfare Measurement
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 2020. 14(2): 260-281.
(with Kelly Bishop, Spencer Banzhaf, Kevin Boyle, Kathrine von Graevenitz, Jaren Pope, V. Kerry Smith, Chris Timmins)
Estimating the Heterogeneous Welfare Effects of Choice Architecture
International Economic Review. 2019. 60(3): 1171-1208.
(with Jonathan Ketcham, Christopher Powers)
Can Understanding Spatial Equilibrium Enhance Benefit Transfers for Environmental Policy Evaluation?
Environmental and Resource Economics. 2018. 69(3): 591-608.
Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program: Comment
American Economic Review. 2016. 106(12): 3932-3961.
(with Jonathan Ketcham, Christopher Powers)
Environmental Regulations and the Welfare Effects of Job Layoffs in the United States: A Spatial Approach
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 2015. 9(2): 198-218
(with Todd Schoellman, Christopher Timmins)
Partial Identification of Amenity Demand Functions
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 2015. 71(1): 180-197.
(with Kevin Boyle, Congwen Zhang)
Do Capitalization Effects for Public Goods Reveal the Public Willingness to Pay?
International Economic Review. 2014. 55(4): 1227-1250.
(with Jaren Pope)
The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and Policy Evaluation Using Housing Markets
Journal of Economic Literature. 2013. 51(4): 1007-1062.
(with V. Kerry Smith, Christopher Timmins)
What Can We Learn from Benefit Transfer Errors? Evidence from 20 Years of Research on Convergent Validity
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 2013. 66(1): 90-104.
(with Kevin Boyle, Sapna Kaul, Christopher Parmeter, Jaren Pope)
The Value of Land and Structures during the Great Housing Boom and Bust
Land Economics. 2013. 89(1): 1-29.
(with Jaren Pope)
A Novel Approach to Identifying Hedonic Demand Parameters
Economics Letters. 2012. 116(3): 374-376.
(with Jaren Pope)
Which Hedonic Models Can We Trust to Recover the Marginal Willingness to Pay for Environmental Amenities?
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 2010. 60(3): 145-160.
(with Christopher Parmeter, Jaren Pope)
A New Approach to Computing Hedonic Equilibria and Investigating the Properties of Locational Sorting Models
Journal of Urban Economics. 2010. 67(3): 322-335.
(with Abdul Jarrah)
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Why Isnt More U.S. Farmland Organic?
Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2010. 61(2): 240-258.
(with Ada Wossink)
Are Travelers Willing to Pay a Premium to Stay at a Green Hotel? Evidence from an Internal Meta-Analysis of Hedonic Price Premia
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. 2010. 39(3): 468-484.
(with Jeta Rudi, Congwen Zhang)
The Benefit Transfer Challenges
Annual Review of Resource Economics. 2010. 2: 161-182.
(with Kevin Boyle, Christopher Parmeter, Jaren Pope)
Necessary Conditions for Valid Benefit Transfers
American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2009. 91(5): 1328-1334.
(with Kevin Boyle, Christopher Parmeter, Jaren Pope)
Decomposing the Structural Identification of Nonmarket Values
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 2009. 57(2): 123-139.