The cost of water and sewer services is rising three times faster than inflation in the USA, and that expense hits low-income households disproportionately. Research by Georgia Tech economist Casey Wichman reveals that, for one in seven households, the monthly water bill comprises more than 4.5 percent of monthly household income---a threshold commonly used for determining water affordability---and that rises, on average, to 8.1 percent of monthly income for the poorest one-tenth of households.

Georgia Tech School of Economics Prof. Olga Shemyakina is a pioneer in the field of health-related effects of war.  Her most recent study, Political Violence and Child Health: Results from Zimbabwe, is in the very same field that led to a Nobel Peace Prize being given to the World Food Programme on October 9, 2020. The Nobel Committee emphasized the link between armed conflict, hunger and the poor health of children in war-torn countries.  

Professor Tibor Besedeš and his co-authors Tristan Kohl (University of Groningen) and James Lake (Southern Methodist University) examine in their latest project how international trade between members of a trade agreement grows after the agreement enters into force. Their forthcoming paper in the Journal of International Economics, “Phase Out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?,” examines how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) increased U.S. imports from Mexico and Canada.

Danny Hughes, a health economist at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Economics, is using data about how often such technologies are used to reveal the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the medical imaging sector, and how it might affect the health of Americans in the years to come.

School of Economics Chair, Laura Taylor, co-leads the “Beyond Carbon” team along with Beril Totkay and Michael Oxman, (Scheller College of Business) and David Iwaniec (Georgia State University) as a part of the Georgia Drawdown Project.

Assistant Professor, Seung Hoon Lee, (School of Economics) and co-author, Kyle Bagwell (Stanford University), provides a new rationale for global trade policy set by the World Trade Organization (WTO). In their forthcoming paper in the Journal of International Economics, the authors provide a new theoretical explanation for trade regulation that explains why the WTO bans direct export subsidies.