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