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Max Besbris

Max Besbris

Expert on climate-related disasters and how people make decisions in economic markets.

Associate Professor of Sociology College of Letters and Science — Home and cell phones available upon request besbris@wisc.edu Home page

Topics

  • As climate-related disasters increase in scope and intensity, how will people whose homes are affected decide to move or stay?
  • Real estate and the housing market. How real estate agents affect homeseekers' decisions and prices in the housing market
  • How journalism schools adapting to the changes in the journalism labor market

Achievements

  • Is the author of Soaking the Middle Class Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster (2022) and Upsold: real estate agents, prices, and neighborhood inequality (2020)
  • Has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation

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