Jeffrey Cohen
Research Fellow
jeffrey.cohen@business.uconn.edu
Jeffrey P. Cohen is a professor and the Kinnard Scholar in Real Estate at the University of Connecticut’s school of business and its Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies. He has also been a visiting fellow at the RWI-Leibnitz Institute for Economic Research in Essen, Germany, since 2017, and was a senior research fellow at Saint Louis University from 2021 to 2024. He served frequently as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis between 2001 and 2020.
Cohen’s current research interests include the development of the U.S. interstate highway system and its effect on land and housing values, the relationships between transit-oriented development and real estate, the impacts of airport noise on house prices, property tax assessment, natural disasters and real estate, and how transportation and housing are linked to substance use disorder treatment outcomes and costs.
At the St. Louis Fed, Cohen is working with other researchers to examine the recovery of Eighth Federal Reserve District neighborhoods in the aftermath of tornadoes, as well as issues related to financial well-being.
His research has appeared in many well-known, peer-reviewed journals, including The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science and Urban Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Real Estate Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Research and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review.