Marcus Casey

Marcus Casey is a Nonresident Fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He is also an affiliated scholar with the Future of Middle Class Initiative at Brookings, focusing on its Automation and the Middle Class theme. He was previously appointed as an inaugural David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings. Casey is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Casey’s expertise lies in the areas of urban, labor, and public economics. His published research includes work on the dynamics of neighborhood change, housing discrimination, education, inequality, and social mobility. His ongoing research focuses on neighborhood sorting dynamics and the valuation of amenities, spatial aspects of inequality and social mobility, and the impact of technological change on local labor markets.

Casey’s expertise lies in the areas of urban, labor, and public economics. His published research articles span areas including neighborhood change, housing discrimination, education, inequality, and social mobility. His ongoing research focuses on neighborhood sorting and amenities, spatial inequality, educational markets, and the impact of technological change on local labor and housing markets. He is appointed as a research consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and on a grant funded by the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Research on Poverty.

Prior to joining UIC, Casey was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Duke University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and is a graduate of Howard University