Marcus Casey

BIO

 I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois, Chicago. I am also a Nonresident Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.  I was elected 2nd Vice President of the Midwest Economics Association in March 2025. 

I was previously appointed as an inaugural David M. Rubenstein Fellow from 2018 to 2020 and a scholar affiliate of the Future of Middle Class Initiative, where I directed the Automation and the Middle Class theme. 

My research focus lies at the intersection of urban, labor, and public economics, focusing primarily on neighborhood sorting and change dynamics; amenity valuation in housing markets; social interactions; segregation;  inequality;  technology and local labor market dynamics;  and education. 

Please visit my Research page to learn more. 

Policy-oriented and non-scholarly writing on the future of work, automation, labor markets, education, credentialing, and other related economic issues can be found here or at the  Brookings Institution homepage. 

I teach courses in applied microeconomics, statistics, and econometrics:

• Public Finance

• Urban Economics & Public Policy 

• Economic Statistics

• Public Economics (Ph.D.)

• Labor Economics (Ph.D.)

• Applied Microeconometrics (Ph.D.)

 More information on my past teaching can be found on my Teaching page.