Preheating Prosocial Behaviour
Assistant Professor Casey Wichman's paper "Preheating Prosocial Behaviour" was published in The Economic Journal. Wichman writes:
Kevin Chan
1. What do you do?
I manage a product management team at Macy’s in the supply chain space, focusing on distribution systems such as transportation, warehousing, and shipping.
2. What’s the coolest part of your job?
Modern distribution centers have a lot of cool technology, from traditional put-to-light and pick-to-light systems to mechanized order sorters, to more advanced systems like goods-to-person storage and machine-learning-driven robotics technology. Designing solutions that streamline the work among humans and machines has been very interesting.
Notching for Free: Do Cyclists Reveal the Opportunity Cost of Time?
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.
Changes in Electricity Use Following COVID-19 Stay-at-home Behavior
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.
Household Responses to Winter Heating Costs: Implications for Energy Pricing Policies and Demand-Side Alternatives
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:
Vernon O'Neal
O'Neal is the 2023 School of Economics Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. Learn more about the annual awards ceremony.
1. What do you do?
I am a commercial insurance broker in the technology, fintech, and private equity industry verticals. I specialize in cyber/technology errors and omissions liability, management liability and alternative risk, and international exposures.
Xinying Lin
1. What do you do?
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.
2. What’s the coolest part of your job?
We have international connections, and some of our projects include building new innovation/technology parks in other countries.
RCTs Against the Machine: Can Machine Learning Prediction Methods Recover Experimental Treatment Effects?
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.