Welcome to my webpage!
I am a microeconomist focusing on environmental and health economics, particularly using machine learning to study how climate change, health outcomes, and public policy interact.
Currently, I am a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology, working with Flintridge Professor R. Michael Alvarez. I also teach Introduction to Public Health Economics and Policy as a lecturer at Caltech.
Publications:
Cao, C. (2024). Integration of ten years of daily weather, traffic, and air pollution data from Norway’s six largest cities. Scientific Data, 11(1), 744. - Nature Portfolio
Cao, C. (2024). How to better predict the effect of urban traffic and weather on air pollution? Norwegian evidence from machine learning approaches. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 221, 544-569.
Cao C (2024). Rich Data Variables: Integration of Ten Years of Daily Weather, Traffic, and Air Pollution Data Across Six Largest Norwegian Cities. V3. Science Data Bank. https://doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.17721
Cao C et al., Using Support Vector Machine and Decision Tree to Predict Mortality Related to Traffic, Air Pollution, and Meteorological Exposure in Norway. Forthcoming: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
Under review/In the submission:
Cao, C., Debnath, R., & Alvarez, R. M. (2024). Physics-based deep learning reveals rising heating demand heightens air pollution in Norwegian cities. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04716.
Cao C et al.," Wintertime Blues: Impacts of Air Pollution on Cardiorespiratory Medical Expenditures in Oslo."
Including Cao C, “Intersecting complexity science with energy performance analysis for sustainability: Data-driven insights from London's million-plus building stock”
Cao C et al., "Predicting Plastic Surgery Risks: An Explainable AI Algorithm Using Machine Learning and NSQIP Data"
Cao C et al., "Uncovering Plastic Surgery Risk Factors: An Exploration of Fuzzy Forest and NSQIP"
Cao C et al., "Off-Premises Alcohol Availability and Traffic Accidents: Evidence from the Extension of the Norwegian Wine Monopoly"
Invited Talks
2021
Norwegian Public Road Administration; Method Development and Analytics Department, Norwegian Public Health Institution
2022
Nordic Annual Environmental and Resource Economics Conference; The 44th Meeting of the Norwegian Association of Economists (Forskermøtet); Urban Transitions Conference; The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association; Economics Department seminar-Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2023
Environmental, resource and innovation economics Research Department of Statistics Norway - SSB Norway
2024
California Institute of Technology Bray Seminar; Caltech Postdoctoral Association Postdoc Launch Talk; AERE@Online Summer Workshop in Environment, Energy, and Transportation; The EuHEA Conference 2024-Opening up perspectives on health economics; 2024 International Symposium on Spatiotemporal Data Science
Get in touch at: congc@caltech.edu