I work as an associate project manager, and the major project I’m working on is the innovation and technology commercialization professional program. It’s a certificate course offered on the Georgia Tech Professional Education website about technology transfer and commercialization.
Assistant Professor Casey Wichman's paper "RCTs Against the Machine: Can Machine Learning Prediction Methods Recover Experimental Treatment Effects?" was accepted by the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
1. Who or what inspired you to pursue economics?I decided to study economics because of a combination of two factors. I wanted to enroll in a program that analyzed social issues from a quantitative perspective, and economics is perfect for this purpose.
1. Who or what inspired you to pursue economics?I always knew I wanted to write but didn't know what type of writing I wanted to do: creative, academic, journalistic, etc. I was an English major and did undergraduate research in History and Government until finally settling on Economics.
Assistant Professor Casey Wichman's article on "Water Affordability in the United States" will be published in Water Resources Research. He writes:
The provision of affordable water and sewer service is a growing concern in the United States. However, the extent of the problem is not known, and the effectiveness of different policy options is underexplored.
Mobile money allows people to receive, store and spend money and remotely access banks using a mobile phone -- provided that conditions are stable enough to support phone signals and towers. But what if a country is at war?
When an emerging infectious disease outbreak occurs, such as Covid-19, institutions of higher education (IHEs) must weigh decisions about how to operate their campuses.
A field experiment into the cheating habits of undergraduate students sheds new light on the use of threats and sanctions to curb dishonest scholastic behavior. Georgia Tech School of Economics professor Daniel Dench, along with Theodore Joyce at Baruch College, published the research online in the February 14, 2022 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. They conclude that a professor informing students that the school has the means to detect cheating has little effect.
By Gita Smith