Jarron VanCeylon, Ph.D.

Environmental & Applied Microeconomist

Visiting Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College

Joining St. John Fisher University as Assistant Professor of Economics, Fall 2026

About

I am an applied microeconomist specializing in environmental economics, with research interests in environmental justice, political economy, climate adaptation, and urban economics. My work has appeared in leading journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Currently, I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Bowdoin College, where I teach mid- and upper-level courses in environmental economics and microeconomics, with an emphasis on equity, policy distributional impacts, climate adaptation, and applied data analysis. From 2023 to 2025, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Rhode Island on a USDA-funded project with Dr. Corey Lang examining partisan support for climate policy and environmental goods.

In Fall 2026, I will join St. John Fisher University as an Assistant Professor of Economics.

Research Fields

Environmental Economics Environmental Justice Political Economy Climate Adaptation Urban Economics Applied Microeconomics

Publications

2025

Household Migration in Response to Climate and Severe Weather: Heterogeneous Sorting and Rural-Urban Resilience

Jarron VanCeylon and Richard T. Melstrom

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

DOI

2025

Renter Willingness to Pay for Urban Green Space

Jarron VanCeylon

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

DOI

2025

Greenway Development and Gentrification

Jarron VanCeylon and Richard T. Melstrom

Southern Economic Journal

DOI

2025

Voting with Their (Left and Right) Feet: Are Homebuyers' Values of Neighborhood Environmental Amenities Consistent with their Politics?

Corey Lang and Jarron VanCeylon

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

DOI

2025

Individual Voter Determinants of School Bond Approval: Evidence from Exit Polls

Corey Lang and Jarron VanCeylon

Applied Economics Letters

DOI

2024

Open Space

Corey Lang and Jarron VanCeylon

The Encyclopedia of Human Geography

DOI

2023

Distribution of Capitalized Benefits from Land Conservation

Corey Lang, Jarron VanCeylon, and Amy Ando

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI

2021

Variation in Valuation: Open Space and Geography

Alex Blanchette, Corey Lang, and Jarron VanCeylon

Land Economics

DOI

2020

Whatever Floats Your Vote: Voter Support for Public Port Infrastructure Investments

Jarron VanCeylon, Corey Lang, and Austin Becker

Maritime Policy and Management

DOI

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Working Papers

Under Review

In Review

Environmental Inequality and Redlining

Jarron VanCeylon and Richard T. Melstrom

Ecological Economics (under review)

R&R

Scarce Land and Amenities: Rental Market Responses to Conservation

Corey Lang and Jarron VanCeylon

Annals of Regional Science (revise and resubmit)

Working Paper

In Review

Putting Their Money Where Their Mouth Is: Willingness To Pay for Partisan Fit in Housing Market Decisions

Corey Lang, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, and Jarron VanCeylon

Political Geography (under review)

Works in Progress

In Progress

Nonrenewable Generation in Texas: Social Benefits from a Counterfactual Simulation

Jarron VanCeylon and Logan Johnson

In Progress

The Value of Experience: Examining Support for Climate Change Adaptation

Jarron VanCeylon and Corey Lang

In Progress

Partisan Preferences for Environmental Amenities: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment

Jarron VanCeylon, Corey Lang, and Pengfei Liu

In Progress

Which Party Pays? Partisan Tax Incidence for Public Goods Spending

Jarron VanCeylon and Evie Hamer

In Progress

Explaining the Partisan Gap in Public Good Spending: Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Data

Jarron VanCeylon and Corey Lang

In Progress

Household Sorting and School Quality

Jarron VanCeylon, Corey Lang, and Chris Timmins

Teaching

St. John Fisher University

Economic Statistics I

Instructor · 40 students

2026–2027

Principles of Microeconomics

Instructor · 40 students

2026–2027

Bowdoin College

Environmental Economics and Policy

Instructor · 35 students

2025–2026

Environmental Economics Senior Seminar

Instructor · 18 students

2025–2026

Principles of Microeconomics

Instructor · 35 students

2025–2026

University of Rhode Island

Introduction to Resource Economics

Instructor of Record · 250 students

Fall 2022

Principles of Microeconomics

Instructor of Record · 45 students

Fall 2021

Resource Economics Capstone Course

Teaching Assistant · 40 students

2018

Data & Code

Replication data and code for select publications. More resources coming soon.

Distribution of Capitalized Benefits from Land Conservation

Replication code and processed data files.

Repository

Additional datasets coming soon

Replication materials for recent publications will be posted here.