Rate My Professor Corey White

Corey White is an applied microeconomist and Adjunct Associate Professor (Research) in the Department of Economics at Monash University's Business School. His research examines the intersections of health economics and environmental economics, focusing on the health effects of climate change, extreme temperature exposure, air pollution from wildfires, healthcare access, vaccination externalities, and mental health outcomes. White's interdisciplinary work has been published in leading journals across economics and medicine, contributing to understandings of environmental damages to human health and policy responses. He contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals including Good Health and Well-being, Climate Action, and Sustainable Cities and Communities.

White earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2017 (dissertation: "Essays on Externalities in Health and the Environment"), an M.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University in 2011, and a B.A. in Environmental Economics from California State University, Chico in 2009. His academic career includes Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University (2017-2021), Senior Lecturer at Monash University (2021-2024), and promotion to Associate Professor (July 2024-present), alongside his adjunct role. He is a Research Affiliate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics since 2019 and currently serves as Senior Economist at Amazon. Key publications include "Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?" with David Molitor (Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024), "Air Pollution and Suicide in Rural and Urban America: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke" with David Molitor and Jamie Mullins (PNAS, 2023), "Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the US" with Stefanie Fischer and Heather Royer (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024), "Measuring Social and Externality Benefits of Influenza Vaccination" (Journal of Human Resources, 2021), "Population Mortality and Laws Encouraging Influenza Vaccination for Hospital Workers" with Mariana Carrera and Emily Lawler (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2021), and "Can Access to Health Care Mitigate the Effects of Temperature on Mortality?" with Jamie Mullins (Journal of Public Economics, 2020). White has received the Monash Dean’s List Publication Award (2024), Monash Economics Department Teaching Award (2022), Monash Economics Departmental Award for Research Excellence by an Early Career Researcher (2022), and others. He has taught courses on environmental economics, econometrics, and research methods, served on Monash's PhD Program Committee, and coordinated applied microeconomics seminars.