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Marcus Casey, PhD

Associate Professor

Economics

Contact

Building & Room:

720 UH

Address:

601 S Morgan St.

Office Phone:

(312) 413-2100

CV Download:

mc_cv_sp2025

Related Sites:

Urban, Labor, Public; Sorting and Social Interactions, Amenities, Inequality and Mobility, Education

The Evolution of Charter School Quality

The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods Since Kerner

Academic Probation, Student Performance and Strategic Course Taking

Racial and Ethnic Price Differentials in the Housing Market

Location Matters: Historical Segregation and Intergenerational Inequality

 

Working Papers

Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Transition: A Nearest Neighbor Approach,” conditionally accepted, American Economic Review (with P. Bayer, B. McCartney, J. Orellana-Li, C. Zhang). NBER link

“Neighborhood Trajectory and Upward Mobility” (with B. Hardy) [email for draft]

“Demographic Change and Housing Price Dynamics: Evidence from Matched Housing Transactions” [new version soon]

“Local Childhood Context and  Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the ARC Region” (w/ B. Hardy and E. Ipkebe) [Email for Draft]

“Sorting, Neighborhood Quality, and the EITC: Evidence from DC”  (w/ B. Hardy and D.Muhammed) [new version soon]

“Demographic Change and Housing Price Dynamics: Evidence from Matched Housing Transactions” [new version soon]

Education

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
BA, Howard University, 2002

Research Currently in Progress

Thriving Black Neighborhoods (with D. Aliprantis, D. Carroll, and J. Lin)
A Framework for Interpreting High Frequency Hedonic Price Dynamics with an Application to Valuing Homicide Risk, (w/ P. Bayer and J. Moreno -  Medina)