Zachary Brown
Associate Professor
Executive Committee, Genetic Engineering & Society Center
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Environmental and Resource Policy
Faculty Affiliate, Global One Health Academy
Nelson Hall 4310
zsbrown2@ncsu.edu WebsiteBio
Zack Brown is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and also part of the NCSU faculty cluster in the Genetic Engineering & Society Center. He earned his PhD from Duke University and his BA from Lawrence University. His research and teaching broadly revolve around the field of bioeconomics, analyzing the dynamic interactions between human behavior and complex environmental and ecological systems, using experimental methods, observational data, mathematical models and theory. His current and previous pursuits include researching the effects of alternative economic incentives and policies for managing pesticide resistance in agricultural systems, public perceptions and consumers’ willingness to pay for food products using new genetic engineering technologies, the economics of controlling vector-borne diseases such as malaria, as well as economic evaluations of more efficient household cookstoves for reducing air pollution and deforestation.
Education
Ph.D. Environmental and Resource Economics Duke University 2011
B.A. Mathematics-Economics Lawrence University 2005
Publications
- Assessing market failures driving pesticide resistance , SCIENCE (2025)
- Dynamically optimal cover crop adoption , EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS (2025)
- Applications, Benefits, and Challenges of Genome Edited Crops , (2024)
- Developing practical measures of the price of pesticide resistance: A flexible computational framework with global sensitivity analysis , Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2024)
- Economic optimization of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti release to prevent dengue , PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (2024)
- Enhancing non-Bt corn refuge based on corn grower and seed dealer surveys , JOURNAL OF INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT (2024)
- Food for thought: Assessing the consumer welfare impacts of deploying irreversible, landscape-scale biotechnologies , FOOD POLICY (2023)
- Biofuels policy and innovation impacts: Evidence from biofuels and agricultural patent indicators , ENERGY POLICY (2022)
- Distributional policy impacts, WTP-WTA disparities, and the Kaldor-Hicks tests in benefit-cost analysis , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (2022)
- Gene Drives in Agriculture: Risk Assessment and Research Prioritization , (2022)