Research overview
CenTox research is organised around economics and public policy themes and interdisciplinary clusters. Browse Programmes & centres for the breadth of our work, and Research clusters for the teams behind it. The faculty and staff directory lists everyone by cluster and unit. Research partnership and supervision enquiries: contact or research@centox.institute.
Research themes
Work spans environmental toxicology and health economics, labor and human capital, public finance and policy, international trade and development, environmental and resource economics, and data science and econometrics — all grounded at 305 Savery Hall, Seattle. The Center for Environmental Toxicology (CenTox) is the school's flagship research centre.
Environmental Toxicology & Health Economics
Pollutant exposure pathways, dose–response modelling, and the economic valuation of health risks from environmental contaminants.
Explore CenTox →Labor & Human Capital Economics
Workforce health, occupational exposure, education returns, and human capital formation in polluted and regulated environments.
Explore →Public Finance & Policy
Taxation, public spending, environmental regulation costs, and fiscal federalism for health and environmental programmes.
Explore →International Trade & Development
Pollution havens, trade in hazardous goods, development economics, and cross-border environmental health spillovers.
Explore →Environmental & Resource Economics
Water quality, land use, ecosystem services valuation, and natural capital in Pacific Northwest policy appraisal.
Explore →Data Science & Econometrics
Causal inference, panel data methods, large-scale administrative health data, and reproducible computational economics.
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