May 10, 2019
Join Assistant Professors of Economics Emily Marshall and Anthony Underwood for a presentation and conversation about natural disasters and their effects on poverty levels in the United States.
This lecture will review the impact of natural disasters on household debt. Some researchers found that following natural disasters, borrowing and delinquency rates increase modestly in the short run. However, little consensus has emerged on the sensitivity of these results to disaster severity and type or whether these shocks generate persistent changes in total household debt.
Faculty Bios:
Emily C. Marshall, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics. Her research is primarily in the field of monetary and macroeconomics. She is currently studying the impact of several different housing market features on macroeconomic volatility. She is also interested in public economics, behavioral economics, and economic education. She has taught courses in Principles of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics and Econometrics. She has also taught upper-level special-topics courses titled The Great Recession, Asset Price Bubbles and Financial Crises and Macroeconomic Finance.
Anthony Underwood, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics. His research interests include household energy use and emissions, the environmental implications of urban density and the sharing economy, the challenges for climate change mitigation posed by demographic change and economic education. He regularly teaches environmental economics, econometrics, and introduction to microeconomics. He also teaches courses in population and urban economics and is a contributing faculty member in Dickinson’s Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship certificate program.
Please register by Wednesday, May 8!
Further information
- Location: Left Field Meeting Space, 116 Federal St., North Side, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
- Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
- Cost: Free