$75,000
How Do Place-Based Policies Affect People? Lessons and Implications for the Inflation Reduction Act
2025
Jonathan Colmer is an associate professor of economics and public policy in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia and director of the Environmental Inequality Lab. He works to understand how growth, development, and the environment interact to shape prosperity, opportunity, and well-being.
His research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, Science, Nature, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. Colmer received his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics.
Funded Research
$85,624
Who Weathers the Storm? The Unequal Effects of Hurricanes in the United States
2021
Authored by Jonathan Colmer
Policy
New research shows that reductions in air pollution have intergenerational consequences (opens in a new tab)
Blog FEB 11, 2021
By: Jonathan Colmer, John Voorheis
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Jonathan Colmer’s Working Papers
Academic
The Grandkids Aren’t Alright: The Intergenerational Effects of Prenatal Pollution Exposure (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers FEB 11, 2021
By: Jonathan Colmer, John Voorheis
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
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