Walk with Wente: Mark Curtis

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Reynolds Professor of Economics
Chair of the Economics Department

Mark Curtis is the Reynolds Professor of Economics, teaching and advancing research in the fields of environmental and labor economics. Curtis’s recent research has focused on the implications of the green energy transition for workers, as well as the broader impacts of environmental and tax policy. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Georgia State University in 2014. Prior to that, he received his M.A. in Economics from Duke University and his B.A. in Religion and Spanish from Furman University. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. 

His fields include environmental, labor, energy, and public economics. He has a particular interest in research that informs public policy. Curtis is a faculty affiliate with the Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability and works with the DEAC Cluster, Wake Forest’s High Performance Computing Cluster. He co-authored the articles “Green Energy Jobs in the US: What are They and Where are They?” and “Workers and the Green-Energy Transition: Evidence from 300 Million Job Transitions” in the journal Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy. He has commented for national news outlets, including The New York Times and NBC News, on clean energy and economics.