PhD Student
Kasey Vangelov is a fifth year PhD candidate in the School of Public Policy. Vangelov has worked on a wide range of projects with SPP faculty, spanning topics such as political participation, housing, environmental policy, wellbeing economics and drug policy. Her dissertation, "Market Transformations and Mortality: Essays on Deindustrialization and Despair" studies the impact of automation exposure (e.g., the replacement of manufacturing jobs with industrial robots) on mortality rates within commuting zones, using spatial econometric methods to account for spillovers and decompose effects.