Nicolai Kuminoff

Selected Publications

Basu, Sayahnika, Jonathan D. Ketcham, and Nicolai V. Kuminoff. 2025. “Environmental Regulation, Residential Sorting, and Pollution Exposure among Senior Americans.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 133: 103211.

Bishop, Kelly C., Jakob Dowling, Nicolai V. Kuminoff, and Alvin D. Murphy. 2025. “Tax Policy and the Heterogeneous Costs of Homeownership.” NBER WP#31824. Journal of Urban Economics. 147: 103750.

Bishop, Kelly C., Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Sophie M. Mathes, and Alvin D. Murphy. 2024. “The Marginal Cost of Mortality Reduction: Evidence from Housing Markets.” NBER WP#29622. Journal of Urban Economics. 139: 103627.

Kuminoff, Nicolai V. and Sophie M. Mathes. 2024. “Residential Sorting, Local Environments, and Human Capital.” Regional Science and Urban Economics. 107: 103972.

Bishop, Kelly C., Jonathan D. Ketcham and Nicolai V. Kuminoff. 2023. “Hazed and Confused: The Effect of Air Pollution on Dementia.” NBER WP#24970. Review of Economic Studies. 90(5): 2188-2214.

Bieri, David, Nicolai V. Kuminoff, and Jaren C. Pope. 2023. “National Expenditures on Local Amenities.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 117: 102717.

Keane, Michael P., Jonathan D. Ketcham, Nicolai V. Kuminoff and Tim Neal. 2021. “Evaluating Consumers’ Choices of Medicare Part D Plans.” NBER WP#25652. Journal of Econometrics. 222(1): 107-140.

Bishop, Kelly C., Nicolai V. Kuminoff, H. Spencer Banzhaf, Kevin J. Boyle, Kathrine von Graevenitz, Jaren C. Pope, V. Kerry Smith, and Christopher D. Timmins. 2020. “Best Practices in Using Hedonic Property Value Models for Welfare Measurement.” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 14(2): 260-281.

Ketcham, Jonathan, Nicolai V. Kuminoff, and Christopher Powers. 2019. “Estimating the Heterogeneous Welfare Effects of Choice Architecture.” NBER WP#22732. International Economic Review. 60 (3): 1171-1208. 

Ketcham, Jonathan, Nicolai V. Kuminoff, and Christopher A. Powers. 2016. “Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program: Comment.” NBER WP#21387. American Economic Review. 106(12): 3932-3961. 

Kuminoff, Nicolai V., Todd Schoellman, and Christopher Timmins. 2015. “Environmental Regulations and the Welfare Effects of Job Layoffs in the United States: A Spatial Approach.” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 9(2): 198-218.

Zhang, Congwen, Kevin J. Boyle, and Nicolai V. Kuminoff. 2015. “Partial Identification of Amenity Demand Functions.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 71(1), 180-197.

Kuminoff, Nicolai V. and Jaren C. Pope.  2014. “Do “Capitalization Effects” for Public Goods Reveal the Public’s Willingness to Pay?”  International Economic Review. 55(4), 1227-1250.

Kuminoff, Nicolai V., V. Kerry Smith, and Christopher Timmins.  2013. “The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and Policy Evaluation Using Housing Markets.” NBER WP#16349. Journal of Economic Literature. 51(4), 1007-1062. 

Kaul, Sapna, Kevin J. Boyle, Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Christopher F. Parmeter, and Jaren C. Pope. 2013. “What Can We Learn from Benefit Transfer Errors?  Evidence from 20 Years of Research on Convergent Validity.”  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 66(1), 90-104.

Kuminoff, Nicolai V. and Jaren C. Pope. 2013. “The Value of Land and Structures during the Great Housing Boom and Bust.”  Land Economics. 89 (1), 1-29. 

Kuminoff, Nicolai V. and Jaren C. Pope.  2012. “A Novel Approach to Identifying Hedonic Demand Parameters.” Economics Letters.116 (3), 374-376.

Ciliberto, Federico and Nicolai V. Kuminoff.  2010. “Public Policy and Market Competition: How the Master Settlement Agreement Changed the Cigarette Industry.” B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Frontiers. 10 (1), 1-46.

Kuminoff, Nicolai V. Christopher F. Parmeter, and Jaren C. Pope.  2010. “Which Hedonic Models Can We Trust to Recover the Marginal Willingness to Pay for Environmental Amenities?” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 60 (3), 145-160.

Kuminoff, Nicolai V. and Abdul Salam Jarrah.  2010.  “A New Approach to Computing Hedonic Equilibria and Investigating the Properties of Locational Sorting Models.” Journal of Urban Economics. 67 (3), 322-335.

Kuminoff, Nicolai V. and Ada Wossink. 2010. “Why Isn’t More U.S. Farmland Organic?” Journal of Agricultural Economics. 61 (2), 240-258.

Kuminoff, Nicolai V., Congwen Zhang, and Jeta Rudi. 2010. “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. 39 (3), 468-484.

Boyle, Kevin J., Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Christopher F. Parmeter, and Jaren C. Pope.  2010. “The Benefit Transfer Challenges.” Annual Review of Resource Economics. 2, 161-182.

Boyle, Kevin J., Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Christopher F. Parmeter, and Jaren C. Pope. 2009. “Necessary Conditions for Valid Benefit Transfers.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 91 (5), 1328-1334.

Kuminoff, Nicolai V.  2009. “Using a Bundled Amenity Model to Estimate the Value of Cropland Open Space and Determine an Optimal Buffer Zone.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 34 (1), 68-90.

Kuminoff, Nicolai V. 2009. “Decomposing the Structural Identification of Non-Market Values.”  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 57 (2), 123-139.