Caitlin Gorback is an applied microeconomist and an assistant professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

Her research interests revolve around urban economics, with active projects in housing and real estate, transportation, and environmental economics.

Gorback earned a doctorate in applied economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2020, and she was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research during 2020-2022 with the Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century initiative.

She received a B.S. in economics from Duke University and worked as a research assistant in the capital markets function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.