|
title
|
Visiting Associate Professor
|
|
department
|
City & Regional Planning
|
|
address
|
212 W. Sibley
|
|
phone
|
(607) 255-2186
|
|
email
|
nb275@cornell.edu
|
Professor Brooks's research centers on policy-oriented theoretical and empirical microeconomics with a focus on environmental and urban/regional economics. Her research has a multi-disciplinary 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. An externality occurs whenever any of the costs or benefits of an economic transaction accrue to a party that is not a part of the transaction.
education
- B.A. in economics from College of William and Mary
- Ph.D. in economics from University of Pennsylvania
work
Professor Brooks provides instruction in both the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. In the last academic year, she taught four courses: two were primarily for CRP, and two primarily for CIPA.
Community Service
- Member of the City of Ithaca's Commons Advisory Board
- Coordinated research partnership with Burlington's Community Development Office (CEDO) to produce Jobs & People 4, a summary and analysis of key demographic and economic data for the region.
publications
- N. Brooks, K. Donaghy & G. Knaap (eds.) (forthcoming), Handbook of Urban Economics & Planning, Oxford University Press.
- "Integrating Economic Research, Education and Service," with Richard Schramm, Journal of Economic Education. 38(2007):36-43.
- "The Effects of Community Characteristics on Community Social Behavior," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 44(2001):249-267.
- "The Distribution of Pollution: Community Characteristics and Exposure to Air Toxics," with Rajiv Sethi, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 32 (1997):233-250. Reprinted in the Internation Library of Environment Economics and Policy: Distributional Effects of Environmental and Energy Policy edited by Don Fullerton, Ashgate Publishing, (forthcoming).
courses
- Public and Spatial Economics for Planners
- Inferential Statistics for Planning and Public Policy
- Microeconomics for Public Policy and Administration
research
- Urban economics
- Environmental economics
