Nicholas B. Irwin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Biography
Dr. Nicholas B. Irwin is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A three-time graduate of The Ohio State University, he came to UNLV in 2018 and teaches both economics and real estate majors at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has a broad range of policy-relevant research interests which all fundamentally revolve around the dynamics across individuals within real estate markets.
Dr. Irwin specializes in the fields of housing economics, urban economics, environmental economics, and land use. He has published extensively in the world’s leading journals across these areas including the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics, Land Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Research, and Regional Science and Urban Economics.
Dr. Irwin’s research follows two veins: the first explores the decision-making of homeowners as it relates to their housing investment decisions through the choice to install photovoltaic technology, reduce water usage, or engage in large-scale renovations. The second explores how homebuyers respond to information shocks related to environmental hazards, adjustments to school attendance boundaries, and changes in local public goods. Along this vein, Dr. Irwin is on the leading edge of the research frontier with novel research on the economic effects of including additional components of housing market dynamics such as market liquidity into traditional hedonic approaches for cost-benefit analysis. His research has shown that a failure to account for housing market liquidity changes will consistently underestimate the impact of pollution and changes in localized amenities. His research has been featured in both local, regional, and national media outlets, including the Las Vegas Review-Journal, KNPR’s State of Nevada, KSNV-3 (NBC) Las Vegas, Fox-5 Las Vegas, Telemundo – Las Vegas, the Associated Press, and US News and World Report.
Education
Ph.D., Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University
M.S., Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University
M.A., Economics, American University B.A., Economics, The Ohio State University
