JACOB EBERSOLE

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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, Environmental Economics, Public Economics

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Professor Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University
2023–

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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

WORK EXPERIENCE

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

ACADEMIC SERVICE

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

JOB MARKET PAPER

WIMBY: Wind in My Back Yard

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Wind energy projects generate global environmental benefits that greatly exceed local property value losses. 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 in Illinois. Using a difference-in-differences design, I find that incumbent county officials lose vote share in precincts that incur property value losses following project approvals, but gain votes in precincts that benefit from higher school district property tax revenues.

WORK IN PROGRESS

The Price of Approval: Discretionary Review and Housing Supply in Boston

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New housing developments of 50,000 square feet or more in Boston trigger Large Project Review, a discretionary approval process requiring impact studies, public hearings, and negotiated community benefits. Developers frequently size projects just below this threshold to avoid review. Based on the extent of project bunching, I estimate that review adds more than $2 million in costs per affected project and has reduced housing delivered by large projects by at least 4% over the past two decades. The community benefits negotiated through review are small relative to both the compliance costs borne by developers and the property tax revenue the city forgoes when projects are scaled down or never built.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

Georgetown Center for Economic Research Alumni Conference
September 2025
Georgetown University Applied Microeconomics Seminar
September 2025
Camp Resources XXXI
August 2025
Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics
August 2023

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Python, Stata, R, GIS, Causal Inference