Marcus Casey - Equitable Growth

Competition
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Anticompetitive Conduct
- Antitrust Enforcement
- Concentration
Families
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how unequal access to care, 21st century work-life policies, and education undermines stable, broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Childcare & Early Education
- Economic Wellbeing
- Health
- K-12
- Post-secondary Education
Inequality & Mobility
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how trends in economic inequality and mobility and changes in the economy have affected the concentration of wealth, income, and earnings, and how these distributional shifts have affected the promise of economic security and opportunity. More
Labor
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well as broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Bargaining Power
- Job Mobility
- Minimum Wage
- Monopsony
- Paid Leave
- Pay Equity
- Schedule Stability
- Unemployment Insurance
- Wage Stagnation
Tax & Macroeconomics
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how tax and macroeconomic policies can promote stable and broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Business Taxation
- Credit & Debt
- Individual Taxation
- Monetary Policy
- Taxes, Inequality & Growth

Marcus Casey is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Prior to joining the department, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Duke University. His research interests lie broadly within the fields of Urban and Labor Economics with emphasis on issues related to neighborhood sorting, valuation of neighborhood amenities, education, poverty, and inequality. At the University of Illinois, Chicago, he has taught undergraduate courses in Public Finance and Statistics and Ph.D. courses in Urban Economics, Labor Economics, and Microeconometrics. In addition, he teaches an annual workshop course aimed at introducing graduate students to conducting original research.