Jeffrey P. Cohen
Associate Professor of Economics
Phone: 860-768-4834, Room 412F
jcohen@hartford.edu
Professor Cohen is an applied microeconomist with specific interests in urban and regional economics; transportation, land use and housing; environmental economics; state and local public finance; and health economics. He has published in top-tier journals in his field, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review. He has served as a Visiting Scholar with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis many times since joining the University of Hartford, where he continues to collaborate on issues related to airport noise and airport congestion. He has been at the Barney School of Business since the fall of 2000.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, December 1998.
M.A., University of Maryland, College Park, May 1995. M.A., University of Toronto, Ontario CANADA, June 1993.
B.S., Tufts University, May 1992.
Selected Scholarship Books and Articles:
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Cletus Coughlin (forthcoming). "Response to Comment on 'Spatial Hedonic Models of Airport Noise, Proximity, and Housing Prices,'” Journal of Regional Science.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. (forthcoming). "The Broader Effects of Transportation Infrastructure: Spatial Econometrics and Productivity Approaches" Transportation Research Part E.
Cohen, Jeffrey P., Cletus C. Coughlin, and Lesli S. Ott. 2009. "Auctions as a Vehicle to Reduce Airport Delays and Achieve Value Capture," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 91(6): 569-588.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Kristen Monaco (forthcoming). “Inter-county spillovers in California’s ports and roads infrastructure: the impact on retail trade.” Letters in Spatial and Resource Science.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Cletus C. Coughlin 2009. “Changing Noise Levels and Housing Prices Near the Atlanta Airport.” Growth and Change 40(2), 287-313.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Catherine Morrison Paul. 2008. "Agglomeration and Cost Economies for Washington State Hospital Services." Regional Science and Urban Economics 38: 553-564.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Kristen Monaco. 2008. "Ports and Highway Infrastructure Investments and Inter-State Spatial Spillovers." International Regional Science Review 31(3): 257-274.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Cletus C. Coughlin. 2008. "Spatial Hedonic Models of Airport Noise, Proximity, and Housing Prices." Journal of Regional Science 48(5): 859-878.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Catherine Morrison Paul. 2007. "The Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Property Values: A Higher-Order Spatial Econometrics Approach." Journal of Regional Science 47: 457-478.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. 2006. "The Impacts of Education Spending and Finance Reform on Manufacturing Property Shadow Values: A Cost Function Approach." Journal of Productivity Analysis, 26: 181-190.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Cletus Coughlin. 2005. "An Introduction to the Two Rate Taxation of Land and Buildings." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June, 359-374.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Catherine Morrison Paul. 2005. "Agglomeration Economies and Industry Location Decisions: The Impacts of Spatial and Industrial Spillovers." Regional Science and Urban Economics 35: 215-237.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Catherine Morrison Paul. 2004. "Public Infrastructure Investment, Inter-State Spatial Spillovers, and Manufacturing Costs." Review of Economics and Statistics, 86(2): 551-560.
James, Harvey and Jeffrey P. Cohen. 2004. "Does Ethics Training Neutralize the Incentives of the Prisoner's Dilemma? Evidence from a Classroom Experiment." Journal of Business Ethics, 50(1): 53-61.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Catherine Morrison Paul. 2003 "Airport Infrastructure Spillovers in a Network System." Journal of Urban Economics, 54(3): 459-473.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Cletus Coughlin. 2003. "Congestion at Airports: The Economics of Airport Expansions." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June, 85(3): 9-25.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Catherine Morrison Paul. 2003. "Spatial and Supply/Demand Agglomeration Economies: State- and Industry Linkages in the U.S. Food System." Empirical Economics, 28(4): 733-751.
Coughlin, Cletus, Jeffrey P. Cohen, and Sarosh Khan. 2002. "Aviation Security and Terrorism: A Review of the Economic Issues." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, September/October, 84(5): 9-24.
Cohen, Jeffrey P. 2002. "'Reciprocal' State and Local Airport Spending Spillovers and Symmetric Responses to Changes in Federal Airport Grants." Public Finance Review, January, 30(1): 41-55.
Recent Achievements and Honors:
Visiting Scholar, Center for Regional Economics of the Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, annual visits, 2001-present.
University Associate, New York University Faculty Resource Network, 2008-present.
Visiting Scholar, New York University Faculty Resource Network, 2007-08
Research Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the National Research Council of the National Academies, 2008
Fellow, RAND Corporation Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists, and Conference on Aging, Santa Monica, CA, July 2006
Professional Activities:
President, Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the Allied Social Sciences Association, 2008
Executive Board Member, Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the Allied Social Sciences Association, 2009-10.
Editorial Board member, Journal of Transportation Security (Springer), August 2007-present
Grants and Consultancies:
investigator "Evaluation of Economic Benefits of Distributed Photovoltaic Systems" (Grant from U.S. Department of Energy to the University of Hartford), 2008-2011.
Investigator, "The Economic Costs of Obesity", Connecticut Public Health Policy Institute at the University of Hartford (grant from the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut), 2008-09.
Consultant, Water Environment Research Foundation, "Cost Estimating Spreadsheet Tool Enhancement for Low-Impact Development Best Management Practices" (Grant through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), 2008-09
Consultant on hospital employees' productivity, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2007-08.
Consultant, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2007. "The Wider Benefits of Public Infrastructure."
Consultant, California State University, Long Beach Foundation (Grants funded through the National Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research), 2005-07.
Consultant, Boston University Dept. of Geography (Grant funded by U.S. Department of Energy), 2006-07.
Consultant on Health System Efficiency, Ellison Institute of Harvard University, Oslo, Norway, November 2005.
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