Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jie Chen and coauthors C. D. Meyerhoefer and L. Peng use data from the 2000-2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to study the effects of the introduction of paid sick leave (PSL) on absenteeism and medical care utilization. In the US over 30% of all private-sector workers, mostly amongst low-wage and part-time employees, do not have PSL benefit.
There is very little causal evidence to date on how e-cigarette use impacts smoking cessation among adults. In a paper published in June, 2020, Georgia Tech economist Daniel Dench probed the role that price plays in choosing whether to vape or smoke. E-cigarettes provide nicotine in a vapor form, which is considered less harmful than the smoke from combustible tobacco because it d
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.
The students and faculty at Georgia Tech and the School of Economics are among the best in the world. Every day I was able to take inspiration from those around me. Georgia Tech's competitive nature and tendency for excellence have motivated me to continue to drive harder and farther in my own pursuits. Furthermore, I learned that there will always be more to learn and to always seek out growth.
The Master's in Economics program gave me practical knowledge in econometrics and statistics. Going in to the program I was most insecure of my quantitative abilities. After completing the program, I am confident in my quantitative skills and have been able to apply them to my job after the program.
Dr. Olga Shemyakina is our very own expert on how large-scale negative market interruptions, such as armed conflict and natural disasters, impact individual choices /decisions on whether it is possible to continue with one’s education, get necessary healthcare, or maybe it is time to move or migrate to a safer place. Until Shemyakina’s work, most research focused on country-level data, i.e.
Lawson who is a native Atlantan chose Georgia Tech because he was excited for the opportunity to be a part of the next wave of economists and social science researchers who are finding new ways to infuse the data-driven technologies of the past decade with traditional theories that have existed for hundreds of years.
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.
