Spencer Banzhaf

Bio

Spencer Banzhaf is a Professor in the Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University, the director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy, and the editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. He specializes in estimating household’s values for non-market goods such as environmental quality. In related work, he has suggested ways to measure and construct indexes of ecosystem services. Two themes in Banzhaf’s work are the distributional effects of environmental policies on diverse populations and the interactions among local environmental amenities, local real estate markets, and the demographic composition and structure of neighborhoods. Recently, he authored the book “Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics.”

Dr. Banzhaf received his PhD in economics from Duke University, in 2001. In addition to his role at NCSU, he is a fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and chairs the economic advisory board of the Environmental Defense Fund.