Brooks Depro

Associate Professor of Economics

Department: Economics

Koury Business Center, Office 122 2075 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244

Email: bdepro@elon.edu

Phone number: (336) 278-6883

Professional Expertise

Teaching Economics, Economic Consulting, Environmental Economics

Brief Biography

Brooks Depro currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Economics at Elon University. Before joining Elon, he spent 20 years working with RTI International, a non-profit research institute in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Brooks is also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

Dr. Depro serves as a faculty advisor for the B.S.B.A. program in Economic Consulting and works as a faculty advocate for the Center for Organizational Analytics. Dr. Depro is also a member of the advisory board for the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) minor.

His research focuses on teaching economics, markets, and the environment. His recent teaching contributions in environmental economics and economic consulting appear in the International Review of Economics Education. The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business has recognized him with the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award recognizes a faculty member who exemplifies the Elon University teacher-scholar model.

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Education

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.

Employment History

2024 to present: Associate Professor of Economics, Martha and Spencer Love School of Business

2017 to 2024: Assistant Professor of Economics, Martha and Spencer Love School of Business

2017 to present: Principal and Founder of Peakway Economics LLC

1997 to 2017: RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC

1989 to 1993: United States Marine Corps

Courses Taught

2025-2026

COR 1100 The Global Experience (Fall 2025)

ECO 1000 Principles of Economics (Fall 2025, Spring 2026)

ECO 2300 Statistics for Deci (Spring 2026)

ECO 4400 Economic Consulting (Fall 2025)

Current Projects

York, A. & Depro B. (2024, August). Developing Data Literacy Skills through Data Storytelling Projects.

Member (2023 to Present): The Economic Education Network for Experiments (EENE). Participating in Academic Mindset Study.

Depro, B. (2026). White flight. In D. E. Taylor (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of environmental justice. SAGE Publications

Publications

Depro, B. (2024). Achieving the American Dream, Homeownership Wealth, and Voluntary Military Service: A Snapshot of Homeowners Who Transitioned to Adulthood During the First Gulf War. Journal of Veterans Studies, 10(1), pp. 214–221. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v10i1.544

Depro, B.. and Rouse, K. (2022). Adapting the Case Method in an Economics Capstone Research Course. International Review of Economics Education. 41, November 2022, 100249.

Depro, B. (2022).Making Introductory Economics More Relevant: Using Personalized Connections to Introduce Environmental Economics. International Review of Economics Education. 39, March 2022, 100230.

Depro, B. (2021). Did Smog Rules Influence Who Loses? Manufacturing Job Losses and the Great Recession. Land Economics, 97(2), 475-490.

Wraight, S., Hofmann, J., Allpress, J., & Depro, B. (2018). Environmental justice concerns and the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline route in North Carolina. (RTI Press Publication No. MR-0037-1803). Research Triangle Park, NC: RTI Press. DOI: 10.3768/rtipress.2018.mr.0037.1803

Woollacott, J., & Depro, B. (2016). Construction and application of the MEEDE dataset. (RTI Press Publication; No. MR-0035-1608). Research Triangle Park, NC: RTI Press. DOI: 10.3768/rtipress.2016.mr.0035.1608

Bray, J., Depro, B., McMahon, D., Siegle, M., & Mobley, L. (2016). Disconnected geography: A spatial analysis of disconnected youth in the United States. Journal of Labor Research, Advance Online Publication. DOI: 10.1007/s12122-016-9228-1

Depro, B., Timmins, C., & O'Neil, M. (2015). White flight and coming to the nuisance: Can residential mobility explain environmental injustice? Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2(3), 439-468. DOI: 10.1086/682716

Depro, B., & Rouse, K. (2015). The effect of multi-track year-round academic calendars on property values: Evidence from district imposed school calendar conversions. Economics of Education Review, 49, 157-171. DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2015.09.006

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.

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

Service Activities

Alamance Chamber Economic Development Committee (2023 to present)

Elon University Environmental Advisory Council (2021 to 2024)

Academic Standing Committee (2019-2020)

Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) Minor Advisory Board (2018 to present)

Faculty Advisor, BSBA Economic Consulting Advisory Board (2017 to present)

LSB Core Course Coordinator (Principle of Economics), (2018 to Present)

Principles of Economics Department Advisory Committee Chair (2018 to present)

Faculty Advocate, Center for Organizational Analytics (2018 to present)

Ad Hoc Committee on Computer Operating Systems within the LSB (2020)

First-Year Course Request Working Group (Academic Advising, LSB representative)(2020 to present)

Life@Elon Invited Speaker (Spring 2019; Fall 2019)

Awards

2022 Martha and Spencer Love School of Business Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching