Center for Child & Family Policy | Duke University

William A. Darity

Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies and Economics; Director, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity; and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Child and Family Policy

William A. ("Sandy") Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies and Economics and director of the Duke Consortium on Social Equality.

Previously he served as director of the Institute of African American Research, director of the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, director of the Undergraduate Honors Program in economics, and director of graduate studies at the University of North Carolina.

Darity's research focuses on inequality by race, class and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, doctrinal history and the social psychological effects of unemployment exposure.

Darity was named the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award recipient for 2012 by the National Economic Association, the NEA's highest honor.

Research Interests:
Economics, Education

Education:

• Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 1978
• B.A. Brown University - 1974

Teaching Spring 2024:

• PUBPOL 435.01, GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH Synopsis
  East Duke 209, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM
• PUBPOL 645.01, GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH Synopsis
  East Duke 209, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM

• PUBPOL 304.02, ECON OF THE PUB SEC Synopsis
  Sanford 04, F 10:20 AM-11:10 AM; Sanford 04, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
• PUBPOL 435.01, GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH Synopsis
  Gray 228, Tu 10:20 AM-12:50 PM
• PUBPOL 645.01, GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH Synopsis
  Gray 228, Tu 10:20 AM-12:50 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Albright, TD; Darity, WA; Dunn, D; Ghani, R; Hayes-Greene, D; Hernández, TK; Heron, S (2024). Beyond Implicit Bias. Daedalus, 153(1), 276-283. [doi]


2. Darity, WA (2024). Reconsidering the economics of identity: Position, power, and property. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 46(1), 4-12. [doi]  [abs]


3. Lefebvre, S; Aja, A; López, N; Darity, W; Hamilton, D (2024). Toward a Latinx Stratification Economics. Review of Black Political Economy, 51(1), 44-78. [doi]  [abs]


4. Krzyzanowski, MC; Ives, CL; Jones, NL; Entwisle, B; Fernandez, A; Cullen, TA; Darity, WA; Fossett, M; Remington, PL; Taualii, M; Wilkins, CH; Pérez-Stable, EJ; Rajapakse, N; Breen, N; Zhang, X; Maiese, DR; Hendershot, TP; Mandal, M; Hwang, SY; Huggins, W; Gridley, L; Riley, A; Ramos, EM; Hamilton, CM (2023). The PhenX Toolkit: Measurement Protocols for Assessment of Social Determinants of Health.. American journal of preventive medicine, 65(3), 534-542. [doi]  [abs]


5. Darity, WA; Mullen, AK; Hubbard, L "Where Does Black Reparations in America Stand?." The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice. January, 2023: 11-21.

Curriculum Vitae