{"id":9,"date":"2017-11-07T11:34:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:09:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-169 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/files\/2022\/01\/Underwood_Anthony_6335-4.16.19-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/files\/2022\/01\/Underwood_Anthony_6335-4.16.19-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/files\/2022\/01\/Underwood_Anthony_6335-4.16.19-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/files\/2022\/01\/Underwood_Anthony_6335-4.16.19-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/files\/2022\/01\/Underwood_Anthony_6335-4.16.19-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/files\/2022\/01\/Underwood_Anthony_6335-4.16.19-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/files\/2022\/01\/Underwood_Anthony_6335-4.16.19-676x1014.jpg 676w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/files\/2022\/01\/Underwood_Anthony_6335-4.16.19-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Tony Underwood is an Associate Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/homepage\/33\/economics\">Department of Economics<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/\">Dickinson College<\/a> in Carlisle, PA.\u00a0 He is the current chair of the newly developed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/homepage\/1916\/finance\">Finance<\/a> program. He recently served as economics department chair from 2019 to 2023. His research interests include household energy use and emissions, the environmental implications of urban density, the challenges for climate change mitigation posed by global demographic change, and trends in economic education. He regularly teaches environmental economics, econometrics, and introduction to microeconomics. He also teaches courses in population and urban economics and is a contributing faculty member in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/homepage\/1474\/data_analytics\">Data Analytics<\/a> program.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Underwood earned his Ph.D. in Economics from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colostate.edu\/\">Colorado State University<\/a> in 2013. His dissertation examined the role of demographic change, especially declining household size, in determination of household expenditures and the resulting carbon dioxide emissions. He has since published in several academic journals, including the <em>AEA Papers &amp; Proceedings, <\/em><em>Journal of Risk and Uncertainty<\/em>, <em>Energy Policy<\/em>, <em>Ecological Economics, <\/em><em>Journal of Economic Education<\/em>, <em>Review of Political Economy<\/em>, <em>The American Economist, <\/em>and <em>Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He lives in Carlisle with his wife, Mallary, and their two sons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Underwood is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.\u00a0 He is the current chair of the newly developed Finance program. He recently served as economics department chair from 2019 to 2023. His research interests include household energy use and emissions, the environmental implications of urban density, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3712,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/underwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}