William A. Darity, Jr.

William Darity Jr. is the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Professor of Public Policy Studies, African and African-American Studies, and Economics at Duke University. His research includes cross-national investigations of racial and ethnic economic inequality, North-South models of trade and growth, the impact of financial crises on developing countries, interpreting Keynes' economics, the economics of the Atlantic slave trade, and the social-psychological effects of exposure to unemployment. He has published more than 120 articles in professional journals and written or edited several books, the most recent of which is Persistent Disparity (1998), coauthored with Samuel Myers Jr., which explores the racial gap in economic outcomes in the USA since 1945.
Recent Research
The Functionality of Market-Based Discrimination (forthcoming, Int. Journal of Social Econ.)
Motivation and Labor Market Outcomes (with A. Goldsmith and J. Veum) (forthcoming, Research in Labor Economics
Persistent Advantage or Disadvantage? Decomposing the Effects of the Past on Present Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the USA (with J. Dietrich and D. Guilkey), (forthcoming, Am. J. of Economics and Sociology)
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Selected Publications
"Secular Changes in the Gender Composition of Employment and Growth Dynamics in the North and the South" (with K. Erturk), World Development, 2000.
"Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: The International Record" (with J.G. Nembhard), AER, 2000
"Tracing the Divide: Intergroup Disparity Across Countries" (with A. Deshpande), Eastern Economic Journal, 2000
Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States Since 1945, Edward Elgar, 1998
[More] 		Course Descriptions
Racial and Economic Inequality (Econ 195.11)
Finance in Developing Countries (Econ 295.11)




Links
Prof. Darity's Vita
Sanford Institute of Public Policy

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