Casey Wichman
Associate Professor
Overview
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. His research spans water and energy demand, valuation of environmental resources and infrastructure, urban transportation, public goods provision, demand for outdoor recreation, and climate change. Methodologically, he relies on the application of program evaluation techniques, often using large micro-data sets, to estimate causal effects of environmental policies on economic behavior.
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.
- Ph.D., University of Maryland
- M.S., University of Maryland
- M.S., North Carolina State University
- B.A., Ithaca College
Interests
- 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
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- Smart thermostats, automation, and time-varying prices
In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2024
- Social media influences National Park visitation
In: Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2024
- Notching for free: Do cyclists reveal the opportunity cost of time?
In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2023
- Preheating Prosocial Behaviour
In: Economic Journal [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2023
- RCTs against the machine: Can machine learning prediction methods recover experimental treatment effects?
In: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2023
- Valuing Nonmarket Impacts of Climate Change on Recreation: From Reduced Form to Welfare
In: Environmental and Resource Economics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2022
- Water Affordability in the United States
In: Water Resources Research [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2022
- Clustered into control: Heterogeneous causal impacts of water infrastructure failure
In: Economic Inquiry [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
- What Should We Be Teaching Students about the Economics of Climate Change: Is There a Consensus?
In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
- Climate Change and Recreation: Evidence from North American Cycling
In: Environmental and Resource Economics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2020
- Elasticities and the Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Transformation
In: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2020
- Bicycle infrastructure and traffic congestion: Evidence from DC's Capital Bikeshare
In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018
- Does water scarcity shift the electricity generation mix toward fossil fuels? Empirical evidence from the United States
In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018
- Information provision and consumer behavior: A natural experiment in billing frequency
In: Journal of Public Economics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- Conservation policies: Who responds to price and who responds to prescription?
In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
- Incentives, green preferences, and private provision of impure public goods
In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
- Perceived price in residential water demand: Evidence from a natural experiment
In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2014
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Smart thermostats, automation, and time-varying prices
In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2024
- Social media influences National Park visitation
In: Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2024
- Notching for free: Do cyclists reveal the opportunity cost of time?
In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2023
- Preheating Prosocial Behaviour
In: Economic Journal [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2023
- RCTs against the machine: Can machine learning prediction methods recover experimental treatment effects?
In: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2023