Current Update: I am currently on sabbatical leave at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech) and the Atlanta Research Data Center (ARDC).

Christy Zhou is an Associate Professor of Economics at Clemson University. Christy is an applied microeconomist who studies environmental and energy policies and regulations, transportation policies and market incentives for technological change. Her works explore topics including the vehicle market, the power sector, energy-efficient products, air traffic congestion, and the local labor market experiencing the energy transition.

Before joining Clemson, Christy received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2016 and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) from 2016 to 2017. Christy grew up in Wuhan and graduated from the University of Virginia (UVa) at Charlottesville with a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics in 2010. 

Fields of Interest

• Environmental and Energy Economics
• Empirical Industrial Organization
• Economics of Transportation

Contact Information

• Email: yichen2 [at] clemson [dot] edu
• Address: John E. Walker Department of Economics, 320M Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall, 225 Walter T. Cox Blvd., Clemson, SC, 29634