James T. Hamilton
Sanford
Institute of Public Policy
Box
90245, Duke University
Durham,
NC 27708-0245
(919-613-7358),
jayth@pps.duke.edu
Oscar
L.Tang Family Associate Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Political
Science
7/2000-
Associate
Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science 7/98-6/2000
Assistant
Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science 9/91-6/98
Director,
Duke Program on Violence and the Media, 9/93-6/2000
Education:
Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University, 1991
B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Economics and Government,
Harvard University, June 1983
Fields
of Interest:
Economics of Regulation, Public Choice/Political
Economy, Environmental Policy, Media
Honors:
Bass Society of Fellows, Duke University, 2000
Goldsmith Book Prize from Shorenstein Center,
Kennedy School of Government, 1999 Vernon
Prize, outstanding article of 1995, Journal of Policy Analysis and
Management
Oak Ridge Associated Universities Faculty Award,
1994
Trinity College (Duke) Distinguished Teaching
Award, 1993
John Olin Law and Economics Fellow, Duke Law
School 1990-91
Allyn Young Prize (Harvard) for Excellence in
Teaching the Principles of Economics, 88
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship,
1985-88
Phi Beta Kappa Junior Twelve, 1982
John Harvard Scholar, 1980-83
Presidential Scholar, 1979
Books:
Calculating
Risks? The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy (with W. Kip Viscusi).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
Channeling
Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1998.
Television
Violence and Public Policy, editor and author of two chapters. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1998.
Employers
Large and Small
(with Charles Brown and James Medoff). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1990.
Articles
and chapters:
“Private
Values of Risk Tradeoffs at Superfund Sites: Housing Market Evidence on
Learning about Risk” (with Ted Gayer and W. Kip Viscusi), Review of Economics
and Statistics 82:3 (August 2000), 439-451.
“Are
Risk Regulators Rational? Evidence From Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions”(with
W. Kip Viscusi), American Economic Review 89:4 (September, 1999),
1010-1027.
“Exercising
Property Rights to Pollute: Do Cancer Risks and Politics Affect Plant Emission
Reductions?,” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 18:2 (August, 1999),
105-124.
"How
Costly is 'Clean'?: An Analysis of the Benefits and Costs of Superfund Site
Remediations" (with W. Kip Viscusi), Journal of Policy Analysis and
Management 18:1 (Winter 1999), 2-27.
"Who
Will Rate the Ratings?" in Monroe E. Price (ed.), The V-chip Debate:
Content Filtering from Television to the Internet (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, 1998), 133-156.
"Conservative
versus Mean Risk Assessments: Implications for Superfund Policies" (with
W. Kip Viscusi and P. Christen Dockins), Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management 34 (November, 1997), 187-206.
"Taxes,
Torts, and the Toxics Release Inventory: Congressional Voting on Instruments to
Control Pollution," Economic Inquiry 35:4 (October, 1997), 745-762.
"The
Benefits and Costs of Regulatory Reforms for Superfund" (with W. Kip
Viscusi), Stanford Environmental Law Journal 16: 2 (May 1997), 159-198.
"Private
Interests in 'Public Interest' Programming: An Economic Assessment of
Broadcaster Incentives," Duke Law Journal 45:6 (1996), 1177-1192.
"Cleaning
Up Superfund" (with W. Kip Viscusi), The Public Interest 124
(Summer 1996), 52-60.
"Biased
Ballots? The Impact of Ballot Structure on North Carolina Elections in
1992" (with Helen F. Ladd), Public Choice 87 (June 1996), 259-280.
"Going
by the (Informal) Book: The EPA's Use of Informal Rules in Enforcing Hazardous
Waste Laws," in Gary Libecap (ed.), Reinventing Government and The
Problem of Bureaucracy (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996), 109-155.
"Noncompliance
in Environmental Reporting: Are Violators Ignorant, or Evasive, of the
Law?" (with John Brehm), American Journal of Political Science 40:2
(May 1996), 444-477.
"Testing
for Environmental Racism: Prejudice, Profits, Political Power?," Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management 14:1 (Winter 1995), 107-132.
"Pollution
as News: Media and Stock Market Reactions to the Toxics Release Inventory
Data," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 28
(January 1995), 98-113.
"Human
Health Risk Assessments for Superfund" (with W. Kip Viscusi), Ecology
Law Quarterly 21:3 (1994), 573-641. Revised version published as "The
Magnitude and Policy Implications of Health Risks from Hazardous Waste
Sites," in Richard L. Revesz and Richard B. Stewart (eds.), Analyzing
Superfund: Economics, Science, and Law (Washington: Resources for the
Future, 1995), 55-81.
"Strategic
Regulators and the Choice of Rulemaking Procedures: The Selection of Formal and
Informal Rules in Regulating Hazardous Waste" (with Christopher H.
Schroeder), Law and Contemporary Problems 57 (Winter/Spring 1994),
111-160.
"Politics
and Social Costs: Estimating the Impact of Collective Action on Hazardous Waste
Facilities," Rand Journal of Economics 24:1 (Spring 1993), 101-125.
Reprinted in Roger D. Congleton (ed.), The Political Economy of
Environmental Protection: Analysis and Evidence (Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1996).
"Missing
the Mark(et) in Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities," Duke Environmental
Law and Policy Forum 1 (1991), 11-16.
"Lower
Pay for Analysis: Greater Rewards are Offered Those Writing Economics from
Human Interest and Political Viewpoints," Nieman Reports 45:3 (Fall
1991), 19-22, 74.
Current
Projects:
Under
journal submission:
“Is
Risky News Good News? A Repeat Sales Analysis of the Effect of Hazardous Waste
Risk Information on Housing Values” (with Ted Gayer and W. Kip Viscusi)
Under
preparation:
News
Goods: How the Market Transforms Information into News, a book manuscript on
the economics of public affairs coverage
Case
Studies:
"Hazardous
Waste in North Carolina" (with Frederick Mayer), 1992
"The
Toxics Release Inventory: Information Provision and Pollution Reduction"
(with Victor Hasselblad), 1993
Teaching
Experience:
Duke:
Political
Analysis for Public Policy, PPS 114/PS 145
Introduction
to Policy Analysis, PPS 55
Violence
and the Media, PPS 130 and Duke Law Seminar
The
Regulatory Process, PPS 269/PS 268
Mentor,
Preparing Minorities for Academic Careers Program
Harvard:
Associate
Tutor for Teacher Training, Dept. of Economics, 1988-1990.
Principles
of Economics (Micro/Macro), 1987-88.
Journals:
Special
editor and organizer for conference volume entitled "Regulating Regulation:
The Political Economy of Administrative Procedures and Regulatory
Instruments," Law and Contemporary Problems 57 (Winter/Spring
1994).
Referee
for American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science,
American Political Science Review, Economic Inquiry, Growth and Change, Harvard
University Press, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Law,
Economics, and Organization, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal
of Public Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of
Risk and Uncertainty, National Research Council, National Science
Foundation, Policy Studies Journal, Princeton University Press,
Public Choice, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Resource and Energy Economics,
Review of Economics and Statistics, Risk Analysis, Smith Richardson
Foundation, Social Science
Quarterly, Southern Economic Journal, University of Chicago Press, W.W.
Norton
Grants:
“The
Economics of Public Affairs Coverage: How the Market Transforms Information
into News,” private foundation grant, 1999-2001
"The
public's interest in the 'public interest'? The impact of viewer interest on
media content," Institute for Humane Studies Social Change grants program,
1997-1998
"The
Political Economy of Media Violence," Grant to DeWitt Wallace Center,
1993-1997
"Superfund
Costs and Risks," with W. Kip Viscusi, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency cooperative agreements, 1992-1996
"Information
and Regulatory Enforcement," with Christopher H. Schroeder, US
Environmental Protection Agency Exploratory Research grants program, 1992-1994