William A Darity, Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Economics and Professor of Economics

Contact Info:

On leave, 2011-2012

Office Location:	202A Sanford Institute
Office Phone:	(919) 613-7336
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• PUBPOL 529S.01, RACE AND ETHNICITY Synopsis

  Sanford 102, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 551S.01)

• PUBPOL 850.01, SOCIAL POLICY Synopsis

  Sanford 05, M 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Education:

PhD

MIT

1978

Specialties:

Development Economics
History of Economic Thought
Economics of Education
Economic History

Research Interests: Stratification Economics

Current projects: skin shade, labor market and marriage market outcomes, , caste and race, , job tenure versus work experience, , disconnected youth, , ethnic diversity, ethnic conflict, and economic development

Areas of Interest:

Stratification Economics, Inequality

Keywords:

stratification economics • North-South disparities • racial inequality • social psychological effects of unemployment • race, ethnicity and schooling • legacy effects

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Divya Guru Rajan  
• Dania Frank  
• Ashley Brown  

Postdocs Mentored

• Daniella A. Cook (20082010)  
• Nicole Lewis (20072008)  
• Monika Gosin (20082010)  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. William Darity Jr., "A New (Incorrect) Harvard/Washington Consensus: Review of William Julius' Wilson's More Than Just Race", Du Bois Review, vol. 8 no. 2 (Fall, 2011), pp. 467-476  [author's comments]
2. William Darity Jr., Ashwini Deshphade, and Thomas Weisskopf, "Who Is Eligible? Should Affirmative Action Be Group- or Class-Based?", American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 70 no. 1 (January, 2011), pp. 238-268
3. Darrick Hamilton and William Darity Jr., "Crowded Out? The Racial Composition of American Occupations", in Social Science Research in Black Populations, edited by James S. Jackson, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, and Sherrill L. Sellers (2011)
4. Gregory Price and William Darity Jr., "Economics of Race and Eugenic Sterilization in North Carolina: 1958-1968", Economics and Human Biology, vol. 8 no. 2 (July, 2010)
5. William Darity Jr., "Obama and the Problem of Racial Inequality in Post-Racial America", Convergence Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 1 no. 1 (Summer, 2010), pp. 102-107