Jeremy R. Groves is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Northern Illinois University. He studies how government policy and other social forces shape local housing markets and urban spaces, from zoning and property taxes to homeowner associations and corporate ownership of single-family homes.
His work has always meant building the dataset before asking the question. He was an early adopter of GIS in economic analysis, joining standard economic data with geographic data for a finer-grained view of neighborhoods, and his current Saint Louis County Urban Database project aims to become a resource any discipline can use to study urban space and community. In the classroom he has spent years making 200-plus-seat lectures feel engaged, including an in-class “coin” economy students can spend to redo past assignments.
Already a regular at Tech Taco and involved with UR2PhD, he joined 71 North for the interdisciplinary mix: the innovation that comes from putting students and faculty with different skills and backgrounds on the same problem.
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Washington University in St. Louis (2005). Dissertation: 'The Economic Effects of Residential Community Associations on Local Municipalities.'
M.A. in Economics, Washington University in St. Louis (2000).
B.S. (Cum Laude) with Honors in Economics, Ball State University (1998), with minors in Mathematics and Urban Planning and Development.
Effective College Instruction certification, ACUE (2023), and ACUE Distinguished Teaching Scholar (2022 – 2023).
Expertise
- Public Finance
- Urban & Regional Economics
- Housing Markets
- Spatial Econometrics & GIS
- Applied Microeconomics
- Political Economy
Courses Taught
- Principles of Microeconomics (large lecture, 200+ students, and online)
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Public Finance (graduate and undergraduate)
- Taxation (Ph.D. field course)
- Public Finance Graduate Seminar
- PSPA 611: Public Revenue Analysis and Financial Management
- Business Statistics
Publications
- Housing Market Transformations in O'ahu: Insights from a Multi-Year Analysis (with P. Yu). (2026). Review of Integrative Business and Economics Research, 15(2), 18-32.
- The Impact of Overweight and Obesity on Unemployment Duration among Young American Workers (with V. Wilcox). (2023). Economics and Human Biology, 51: 101280.
- Superfund Cleanup Time and Community Characteristics: A Survival Analysis (with A. Klis and L. Solatyavari). (2022). Journal of Environmental Management, 320: 115705.
- Impact of Controlled Choice Assignment on Home Values (with T. Batson). (2018). Land Economics, 95(1), 35-53.
- Effectiveness of RCA Institutions to Limit Local Externalities: Using Foreclosure Data to Test Covenant Effectiveness (with W. H. Rogers). (2011). Land Economics, 87(4), 559-581.
- Impact of Positive Property Tax Differentials on the Timing of Development. (2010). Regional Science and Urban Economics, 39(6), 739-748.
- Finding the Missing Premium: An Explanation of Home Values within Residential Community Associations. (2008). Land Economics, 84(2), 188-208.
- All Together Now? An Empirical Study of Voting Behaviors of Homeowner Associations Members in St. Louis County. (2006). Review of Policy Research, 23(6), 1199-1218.
- Zoning and the Distribution of Locational Rents: An Empirical Analysis of Harris County, Texas (with E. Helland). (2002). Land Economics, 78(1), 28-44.
