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Timothy Fraser

Northeastern University

Dept. of Political Science

360 Huntington Ave,

Boston, MA 02115

United States

Northeastern University (USA) - College of Social Sciences and Humanities

360 Huntington Ave,

Boston, MA 02115

United States

  • Northeastern University

  • Northeastern University (USA) - College of Social Sciences and Humanities

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“  Timothy Fraser is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Northeastern University. His research had been supported by local and national grants, including a Fulbright Fellowship. He has authored/coauthored 16 peer-reviewed studies and 6 working papers on disaster resilience and energy policy in the US and Japan. His research highlights the role of social networks in communities' adaptation to climate change. Learn more here:ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy_Fraser2Twitter: @Timothy_Fraser1Website: www.timothyfraser.com  ”

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1.

Won't You Be My Neighbor? Uncovering ties between Social Capital and COVID-19 Outcomes at Local Levels

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Feb 2021
Timothy Fraser, Courtney Page-Tan and Daniel P. Aldrich
Northeastern University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Security and Emergency Services and Northeastern University - College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Security and Resilience Program
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social capital, social vulnerability, disaster, resilience, COVID-19, index

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In the Hands of a Few: Disaster Recovery Committee Networks

Journal of Environmental Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 26 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2020
Timothy Fraser, Daniel P. Aldrich, Andrew Small and Andrew Littlejohn
Northeastern University, Northeastern University - College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Security and Resilience Program, Northeastern University (USA) - College of Social Sciences and Humanities and Leiden University - Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Social Network Analyis, Tohoku Disaster, Disaster Committee, Quantitative Analysis, Japan

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Trust but Verify: Validating New Measures for Mapping Social Infrastructure in Cities

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 Apr 2022
Timothy Fraser, Napuck Cherdchaiyapong, Winta Tekle, Erin Thomas, Joel Zayas, Courtney Page-Tan and Daniel P. Aldrich
Northeastern University, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Security and Emergency Services and Northeastern University - College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Security and Resilience Program
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social infrastructure, social capital, cities, GIS, big data

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Bowling Alone or Masking Together? The Role of Social Capital in Excess Death Rates from COVID19

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Dec 2020
Timothy Fraser, Daniel P. Aldrich and Courtney Page-Tan
Northeastern University, Northeastern University - College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Security and Resilience Program and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Security and Emergency Services
Downloads 240 (317,870)
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COVID19, disaster; social capital, excess deaths, coarsened exact matching, policy

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Cycling Cities: Measuring Transportation Equity in Bikeshare Networks

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Apr 2022
Timothy Fraser, Katherine Van Woert, Sophia Olivieri, Jonathan Baron, Katelyn Buckley and Pamela Lalli
Northeastern University, Northeastern University (USA), Northeastern University (USA), Northeastern University (USA), Northeastern University (USA) and Northeastern University (USA)
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bikeshare, cities, equity, micromobility, networks, GIS

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Uneven Paths: Recovery in Louisiana Parishes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 10 Jan 2022
Timothy Fraser, Alex Poniatowski, Nicholas Hersey, Haoran Zheng and Daniel P. Aldrich
Northeastern University, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University and Northeastern University - College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Security and Resilience Program
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disaster, Katrina, Rita, resilience, recovery, policy, synthetic control experiment

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Where the Grass Is Greener: Social Infrastructure and Resilience to COVID-19

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 May 2021
Timothy Fraser
Northeastern University
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social infrastructure; social capital; resilience; GIS; COVID-19; Japan

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Grassroots vs. Greenhouse: The Role of Environmental Organizations in Reducing Carbon Emissions

Climatic Change, accepted October 31, 2021
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 18 May 2021 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2021
Timothy Fraser and Pinar Temocin
Northeastern University and Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University
Downloads 155 (480,208)
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nonprofit, emissions, adaptation, civil society, environmental policy, Japan

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COVID-19 To Go? The Role of Disasters and Evacuation in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Page-Tan, Courtney, & Timothy Fraser (2022). COVID-19 To Go? The Role of Disasters and Evacuation in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Global Environmental Change, accepted January 7, 2021.
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 04 May 2021 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2022
Courtney Page-Tan and Timothy Fraser
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Security and Emergency Services and Northeastern University
Downloads 151 (491,334)
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evacuation, disaster, pandemic, resilience, COVID-19, GIS, networks

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Better Together? The role of Social Capital in Urban Social Vulnerability

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 Feb 2022
Timothy Fraser and Nicole Naquin
Northeastern University and Northeastern University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science, Students
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social vulnerability, social capital, disaster, cities, resilience, Japan

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Leaders or Networkers? The Role of Mayors in Renewable Energy Transition

Fraser, Timothy, Mary Bancroft, Andrew Small, & Lily Cunningham. (2022). Leaders or Networkers? The Role of Mayors in Renewable Energy Transition. Environmental Innovations and Societal Transitions. Accepted January 7, 2022.
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 10 Jan 2022
Timothy Fraser, Mary Bancroft, Andrew Small and Lily Cunningham
Northeastern University, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University (USA) - College of Social Sciences and Humanities and Northeastern University - College of Social Sciences and Humanities
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mayors, renewable energy, solar, social capital, politics, US, Japan

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The Role of Financial Incentives in Promoting Electric Light Commercial Vehicles in the United States

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Sep 2024
Yan Guo, Timothy Fraser and Semida Silveira
Cornell University, Northeastern University and Cornell University
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electric vehicles, light commercial vehicle, policy, financial incentives, total cost of ownership

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SMARAG: An AI-powered Carbon Reporting System using Self-decisive Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation​

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 Oct 2025
Xinlai Liu, Praneet Pabolu, Yishuo Jiang, Timothy Fraser, Runying Chen and Oliver H. Gao
Cornell University, Cornell University, Cornell University, Northeastern University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Cornell University - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation, Carbon Reporting, Large Language Models

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Seawalls or Social Recovery? The Role of Policy Networks and Design in Disaster Recovery

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Dec 2020
Timothy Fraser, Daniel P. Aldrich and Andrew Small
Northeastern University, Northeastern University - College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Security and Resilience Program and Northeastern University (USA) - College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Downloads 77 (823,616)
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disaster; resilience; policy networks; policy design; synthetic control; Japan

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All Politics Is Local: Judicial and Electoral Institutions' Role in Japan's Nuclear Restarts

Pacific Affairs, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Jul 2017
Daniel P. Aldrich and Timothy Fraser
Northeastern University - College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Security and Resilience Program and Northeastern University
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Japan, Nuclear Power, Veto Player, Contentious Politics, Restarts, QCA

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Rumor Has it: The Role of Social Ties in Evacuation to Nearby Shelters after the 2018 Hokkaido Earthquake

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Feb 2021
Timothy Fraser, Larissa Morikawa and Daniel P. Aldrich
Northeastern University, Northeastern University (USA) and Northeastern University - College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Security and Resilience Program
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evacuation, shelters, social capital, mixed methods, QCA, TSCS, Japan

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Boomtown or Bust? Policy Feedback Effects of Divisive Facilities on Social Capital in Japan

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 Dec 2021
Timothy Fraser and Toshiaki Yoshida
Northeastern University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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policy, feedback effect, social capital, nuclear power, Japan

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Measuring Burden and Disparity of Exposure to Transportation Emissions in American Communities

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Aug 2025
Timothy Fraser, Yeonkyeong Park, Yifei Li, Yuchen Tang and Oliver H. Gao
Northeastern University, Cornell University, Cornell University, Cornell University and Cornell University - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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equity, transportation, emissions, inequality, counties, exposure

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Making Moves Move: Fast Emissions Estimates for Repeated Transportation Policy Scenario Analyses

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Apr 2024
Timothy Fraser, Yan Guo and Oliver H. Gao
Northeastern University, Cornell University and Cornell University - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Emissions, Transportation, Statistical Learning, Policy, Counties

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Cutting Carbon on a Dime: Optimizing Transportation Policy for Cost-Effective Emissions Reduction

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Oct 2025
Timothy Fraser, Alireza Yazdiani, Leah Smith, Kaylen Li, Yan Guo, Osama Awadalla and Oliver H. Gao
Northeastern University, Cornell University, Cornell University, Cornell University, Cornell University, Cornell University and Cornell University - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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transportation, emissions, air pollution, optimization, policy, counties

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The Marshall Fire Unified Research Survey: A Community-Engaged, Policy-Relevant, Longitudinal Disaster Recovery Study

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Apr 2026
Katherine Dickinson, Elizabeth Albright, Daniel P. Aldrich, Deserai Anderson, Hamilton Bean, Azadeh Bolhari, Jeri Curry, Rick DeVoss, Margaret V. du Bray, Timothy Fraser, Kiana Freeman, Cheryl Gordon, Tracy Hansen, Allison Calder James, Amy Javernick-Will, Nathan Jeschke, Molly Kadota, Rebecca E. Morss, Lori Peek, Colleen E. Reid, Lisa Ritchie, Andrew Rumbach, Carolina Van Horn, Hannah L. Walters, Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Brad P. Wham and Andrew J. Whelton
University of Colorado, Aurora - Colorado School of Public Health, Duke University, Northeastern University - College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Security and Resilience Program, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Colorado at Denver - Department of Communication, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Northern Colorado, Northeastern University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado Denver, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado at Boulder, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Colorado, Aurora - Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Purdue University
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Marshall Fire, Wildfire, Disaster recovery, community engagement, rapid research, research ethics