Brooks Depro is a senior economist at RTI International. He has over 15 years’ experience in managing and conducting cost-benefit analyses for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  His recent research examines racial and income differences of pollution exposure resulting from residential moves. His work in this area has been published in Land Economics, the edited volume of The Political Economy of Environmental Justice, and the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER) Working Paper Series. 

PhD, Economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2009.

ME, Economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2003.

BA, Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1997.

2012 to present: Senior Manager and Senior Economist, RTI International

2006 to present: Senior Economist, RTI International

1989 to 1993:  United States Marine Corps

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Depro, B. M., Timmins, C., & O’Neil, M. M. (2012). Meeting urban housing needs: Do people really come to the nuisance. Cambridge, MA: The National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER). Retrieved from http://www.nber.org/papers/w18109

Depro, B., & Timmins, C. (2012). Residential mobility and ozone exposure: Challenges for environmental justice policy. In H. Spencer Banzhaf (Ed.), The Political economy of environmental justice (pp. 145–188). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Depro, B. M., & Palmquist, R. B. (2012). How do ozone levels influence the timing of residential moves? Land Economics, 88(1), 43–57.

Van Houtven, G. L., Pattanayak, S. K., & Depro, B. M. (2011). Benefits transfer of a third kind: An examination of structural benefits transfer. In J. Whitehead, J.C. Huang, & T. Habb (Eds.), Preference data for environmental valuation (Explorations in Environmental Economics Series) London: Routledge.

Pattanayak, S. K., Ross, M. T., Depro, B. M., Bauch, S., Timmins, C., Wendland, K. J., & Alger, K. (2009). Climate change and conservation in Brazil: CGE Evaluation of health and wealth impacts. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 9(2). http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol9/iss2/art6

Depro, B. M., Murray, B., Alig, R. J., & Shanks, A. (2008). Public land, timber harvests, and climate mitigation: Quantifying carbon sequestration potential on U.S. public timberlands. Forest Ecology and Management, 255(3–4), 1122–1134.

Hartman, D., & Depro, B. M. (2006). Re-thinking sports-based community crime prevention. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 30(2), 180–196.

Pattanayak, S. K., & Depro, B. M. (2004). Valuing environmental services from agroforestry: Economics of soil and forest conservation in Manggarai, Indonesia. In J. Alavalapati and E. Mercer (eds.), Valuing agroforestry systems: Methods and applications. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.