Jonathan Colmer is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia, and the Co-Founder and Director of the Environmental Inequality Lab. 

Jonathan works to understand how economic activity, policy, and the environment interact to shape prosperity, opportunity, and well-being.

He is a Theme Leader for the Climate & Environment Program at PEDL (CEPR), a research affiliate of CEPR, the CESifo Network, and the IGC, a research fellow of IZA, and a research associate at the Center for Economic Performance. In 2024, he received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

What's New:

We have just released a new working paper, The Distribution and Consequences of Natural Disasters: Evidence from U.S. Wildfire Victims, with Pat Baylis, Judson Boomhower, and John Voorheis!

The Census Environmental Impacts Frame and The Public-Use Gridded Environmental Impacts Frame, both with Kendall Houghton, Eva Lyubich, Mary Munro, Cameron Scalera, John Voorheis, and Jenny Withrow are now published in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy!

Contact Information:

E-mail: j.colmer@virginia.edu