Jiameng Zheng

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center.

My re­search lies at the in­ter­sec­tion of en­vi­ron­men­tal eco­nom­ics, health eco­nom­ics, and pub­lic eco­nom­ics, with a par­tic­u­lar fo­cus on wa­ter qual­ity and en­vi­ron­men­tal pol­icy. Using large ad­min­is­tra­tive datasets and causal in­fer­ence meth­ods, I study the eco­nomic and health con­se­quences of en­vi­ron­men­tal pol­lu­tion, the ben­e­fits of en­vi­ron­men­tal qual­ity, and the ef­fec­tive­ness and dis­tri­b­u­tional im­pacts of en­vi­ron­men­tal poli­cies. My re­search also ex­am­ines in­dus­trial chem­i­cal ac­ci­dents, nat­ural dis­as­ters, and broader ques­tions in en­vi­ron­men­tal and nat­ural re­source eco­nom­ics.

Before join­ing LSU in 2024, I was a post­doc­toral re­search as­so­ci­ate at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I earned my Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021, an M.P.S. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.S. in Economics from Wuhan University.

Selected re­search #

• Quantifying Recreational Benefits from Fish Consumption Advisories: Insights from Cell Phone Mobility Data — Land Economics (2026).
• Bringing Hydrologic Realism to Water Markets — Revise and re­sub­mit, Water Resources Research.

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