William A Darity Jr
  • William A Darity Jr

  • Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy and African & African American Studies and Professor of Economics
  • African & African American Studies
  • 202A Sanford Institute Bldg.
  • Campus Box 90245
  • Phone: 613 7336
  • Fax: 681 8288
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Specialties

    • Development Economics
    • African and African-American Studies
    • History of Economic Thought
    • Economics
    • Economics of Education
    • Education
    • Economic History
    • Public Policy
    • Sociology
  • Research Summary

    stratification economics, inequality, race and identity, social psychological effects of unemployment, slavery and industrialization, colorism, Keynes' economics
  • Education

      • PhD,
      • MIT,
      • 1978
  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Samuel Z. Westerfield Award,
      • National Economic Association,
      • January, 2012
      • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford,
      • July, 2011- June, 2012
  • Recent Publications

      • William Darity Jr.
      • (forthcoming).
      • Confronting Those Affirmative Action Grumbles.
      • In Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Robert Pollin (Eds.),
      • Capitalism on Trial: Explorations in the Tradition of Thomas E. Weisskopf
      • .
      • Edward Elgar.
      • William Darity Jr..
      • (November, 2012).
      • From Here to Full Employment.
      • Review of Black Political Economy
      • .
      Publication Description

      Samuel Z. Westerfield award address

      • William Darity Jr. and Darrick Hamilton.
      • (March, 2012).
      • Bold Policies for Economic Justice.
      • Review of Black Political Economy
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      • 79-85.
      • William Darity Jr., Mary Lopez, Olugbena Ajilore, and Leslie Wallace.
      • (2012).
      • Antipoverty Policy: The Role of Individualist and Structural Perspectives.
      • In Philip Jefferson (Eds.),
      • The Oxford Handbook of The Economics of Poverty
      • .
      • New York:
      • Oxford University Press.
      • Timothy A. Diette, Arthur H. Goldsmith, Darrick Hamilton, and William Darity Jr..
      • (2012).
      • Causality in the Relationship Between Mental Health and Unemployment.
      • In Lauren D. Appelbaum (Eds.),
      • Reconnecting to Work: Policies to Mitigate Long-Term Unemployment and Its Consequences
      • .
      • Kalamazoo:
      • W.E. Upjohn for Employment Research.
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  • Postdoctoral Students

    • Daniella A. Cook
      • 20082010
    • Nicole Lewis
      • 20072008
    • Monika Gosin
      • 20082010
    • Nina Smith
      • 20122013
  • PhD Students

    • Divya Guru Rajan
    • Dania Frank
      • 2009 - present
    • Ashley Brown
      • 2008 - present