Jeanna Kenney

I am an applied microeconomist with particular interests in real estate, urban economics, and labor economics. In Fall 2025 I will join the Economics Department in the Villanova School of Business at Villanova University as an Assistant Professor of Economics. I was previously an Assistant Professor of Economics and Real Estate in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies in the Culverhouse College of Business at the University of Alabama, and I received my PhD in Applied Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in May 2024. 

My research uses empirical and experimental techniques to study real estate markets, labor markets, and the provision of public goods. I am particularly interested in the ways in which real estate agents and intermediaries more broadly affect individual decision-making. You can find information on my various research projects here. 

Prior to graduate school, I worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia with the Regional/Microeconomics team in the Research Department. I received my B.A. in Economics with a concentration in mathematical economics from Haverford College in 2012.