Assistant Professor Casey Wichman's article "Notching for Free: Do Cyclists Reveal the Opportunity Cost of Time?" was published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Wichman writes:
Time is a fundamental economic constraint. Understanding how individuals trade off time for money is an important input into transportation policy and valuing improvements in environmental quality.
Assistant Professor Dylan Brewer's article "Changes in Electricity Use Following COVID-19 Stay-at-home Behavior" was published in Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy. Brewer writes:
In the article, I study how electricity consumption changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Assistant Professor Dylan Brewer's paper "Household Responses to Winter Heating Costs: Implications for Energy Pricing Policies and Demand-Side Alternatives" was published in the journal Energy Policy. Brewer writes:
O'Neal is the 2023 School of Economics Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. Learn more about the annual awards ceremony.
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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.
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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.
Assistant Professor Mayra Pineda-Torres joined the School of Economics faculty in 2022 and teaches ECON 4510 Health Economics. Learn more about her work on her research page.
Cici McNamara teaches undergraduate industrial organization, which is the study of how firms acquire and maintain market power. The course uses microeconomic and game theory to model strategic interactions between firms and examines how antitrust law has regulated firm conduct to achieve certain market outcomes.
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.
By Gita Smith