Casey Rothschild is the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Economics at Wellesley College. He received his PhD in Economics from MIT in 2006 and has taught at Middlebury College, Columbia Graduate School of Business, Harvard University, College of the Holy Cross, and MIT since earning his PhD.
Casey is a public finance theorist with research interests in the optimal design of income tax systems and trade-offs between efficiency and distributional concerns in insurance markets. He has published articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economic Studies, The Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Public Economics, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, and The Review of Economic Dynamics, among others.
He currently serves as the Co-Editor in Chief of The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review and on the editorial boards of The Journal of Risk and Insurance and The Journal of Economic Education.
He is married to Beth Rothschild. They have three daughters, Adele (13), Mabel (11), and Lottie (8), and one dog, Ken.