Economics PhD Candidate
Environmental economics, applied microeconomics, and public policy.
I am an economics PhD candidate at the University of Illinois Chicago. My research studies how people respond to environmental information and what those responses imply for policy design.
This paper studies behavioral responses to air quality alerts and the implications of those responses for optimal alert policy. I combine air quality forecasts, alert issuances, and foot traffic data to estimate whether people reduce outdoor activity after alerts, whether responsiveness changes with recent alert history, and how those behavioral patterns affect the welfare-maximizing alert threshold.
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Email: tstoeg2@uic.edu
Department of Economics, University of Illinois Chicago