JACOB EBERSOLE

EDUCATION

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Ph.D., Economics
Expected 2026
M.A., Economics
2022

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

B.A., Economics and Environmental Studies
2014

FIELDS

Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics, Environmental Economics

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Professor Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University
2023–

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Georgetown University
Empirical Applications in Political Economy
2025
Public Sector Economics
2024
Microeconometrics (Master’s Level)
2023
Senior Thesis Seminar in Political Economy
2023
International Economics
2022
Environmental Economics
2022
Economic Statistics
2021

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Research Analyst, Industrial Economics, Inc. (IEc)
2014–2020

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Co-Chair, Georgetown Economics Graduate Student Organization
2023–2024

SEMINARS & CONFERENCES

Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics
August 2023
Camp Resources XXXI
August 2025
Georgetown University Applied Microeconomics Seminar
2025

JOB MARKET PAPER

WIMBY: Wind in My Back Yard?

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I estimate that wind energy projects in Illinois generate global environmental benefits that exceed local property value losses by more than a factor of thirty. Yet county governments often reject proposed projects. To assess the electoral incentives of permit-issuing county officials, I link spatial variation in local costs and benefits to precinct-level election results. Following approvals, I find that incumbent county officials lose vote share in precincts that incur property value losses, but gain votes in precincts that benefit from higher property tax revenues.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Bargaining Over Development: The Costs of Discretionary Permitting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Python, Stata, R, GIS, Causal Inference