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Nancy Brooks

  • Visiting Associate Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies in City and Regional Planning

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Academic Research Areas

  • Economic development
  • Regional science
  • Environmental policy and planning
  • Location theory
  • Spatial analytics
  • Urban economics

Nancy Brooks’s research centers on policy-oriented theoretical and empirical microeconomics with a focus on environmental and urban/regional economics. Her research has a multidisciplinary focus that overlaps with geography, regional science, and sociology. A common thread that weaves through her work is the investigation of the implications for both equity and efficiency of the market failure typically known as an externality.

Brooks received a B.A. in economics from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Academic Research Areas

  • Economic development
  • Regional science
  • Environmental policy and planning
  • Location theory
  • Spatial analytics
  • Urban economics

My main commitment as a scholar has been primarily about studying inequities that arise from market externalities. While my training is in economics, my research interests have always related to issues of importance to cities and planners.

Books

  • Book cover of an interstate road winding into a city scape with an overcast sky.

    The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning

    Brooks, Nancy, Kieran Donaghy, and Gerrit-Jan Knaap. 2012. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Publications

  • Driving While Black and Brown in Vermont: Can Race Data Analysis Contribute to Reform?

    Brooks, Nancy, and Stephanie Seguino. 2020. Review of Black Political Economy.

  • Integrating Economics Research, Education, and Service

    Brooks, Nancy, and Richard Schramm. 2007. The Journal of Economic Education 38 (1): 36–43.

  • The Effects of Community Characteristics on Community Social Behavior

    Brooks, Nancy. 2001. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 44 (3): 249–67.

  • The Distribution of Pollution: Community Characteristics and Exposure to Air Toxics

    Brooks, Nancy, and Rajiv Sethi. 1997. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 32 (2): 233–50.

Classes

  • Public and Spatial Economics for Planners

    CRP 5120

  • Inferential Statistic for Planning and Public Policy

    CRP 5450

  • Urban Economics

    CRP 5040/4040

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