Marcus Casey

BIO

 I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois, Chicago and a Honors College Faculty Fellow.

I was previously appointed as an inaugural David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Economic Studies from 2018 to 2020 at the Brookings Institution. During my tenure, I served as a scholar affiliate of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative, where I directed the Automation and the Middle Class theme. I was appointed as a  Nonresident Fellow from 2020 to 2025. I served as 2nd Vice President of the Midwest Economics Association from March 2025 - March 2026. 

My research focuses primarily on urban, labor, and public Economics, with particular interests in neighborhood change, sorting, amenity valuation, social interactions, inequality, crime, local labor markets, and education. 

Please visit my Research page to learn more about my work. 

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:

Current

• Public Economics (Ph.D.)

• Econometrics

• Urban Economics & Public Policy 

• Special Topics

Past

• Public Finance

• Economic Statistics

• Labor Economics (Ph.D.)

• Applied Microeconometrics (Ph.D.)

• Urban Economics (Ph.D.)

 For more information, see my Teaching page.