Casey Wichman

Associate Professor

Member Of:
  • School of Economics
Email Address: wichman@gatech.edu

Overview

Personal Pronouns:
He/him/his

Dr. Casey Wichman is an applied microeconomist working on issues at the intersection of environmental and public economics. His research focuses on how people interact with the natural and built environment, and what that behavior reveals about the value of environmental amenities. Dr. Wichman's research spans water and energy demand management, climate change impacts and policy, valuation of environmental resources and infrastructure, urban transportation, public good provision, and outdoor recreation.

Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Wichman served as the Research Director of the Energy and Environment Lab at the University of Chicago and as a Fellow at Resources for the Future, an environmental economics think-tank in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 2015, and his doctoral work earned outstanding doctoral dissertation awards from both the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and the Association of Agricultural and Applied Economists.

Education:
  • Ph.D., University of Maryland
  • M.S., University of Maryland
  • M.S., North Carolina State University
  • B.A., Ithaca College

Interests

Research Fields:
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Environmental Economics
  • Public Economics

Courses

  • ECON-2100: Economics and Policy
  • ECON-4210: The Economics of Climate Change
  • ECON-4803: Econ of Climate Change:
  • ECON-7102: Environmental Economics I

Publications

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