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50
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1377
National Ranking
835

Overview

William Darity is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has contributed extensively to social sciences research. Their work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, general health professions, economics and econometrics, health, and education. Darity's research primarily addresses topics in urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies; intergenerational and educational inequality studies; race, history, and American society; employment and welfare studies; labor market dynamics and wage inequality; culture, economy, and development studies; and religion, spirituality, and psychology.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality, 2022, Journal of Economic Literature
  • Wealth Implications of Slavery and Racial Discrimination for African American Descendants of the Enslaved, 2020, The Review of Black Political Economy
  • Disparate Recoveries: Wealth, Race, and the Working Class after the Great Recession, 2021, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission, 2021, Social Science & Medicine
  • Separate and Unequal Under One Roof: How the Legacy of Racialized Tracking Perpetuates Within-School Segregation, 2021, RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Frequent coauthors working with Darity include Fenaba R. Addo, Paul A. Robbins, Eugenia Conde, Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, and Darrick Hamilton.

The scientist has published multiple works in notable venues such as AEA Papers and Proceedings, UNC Libraries, SSRN Electronic Journal, RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and The Review of Black Political Economy.

In the domain of book publications, Darity has contributed to works published by the University of North Carolina Press, including the book titled From Here to Equality, published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender

    William A. Darity;Patrick L. Mason

  • THE IMPACT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND HUMAN CAPITAL ON WAGES

    Arthur H. Goldsmith;Jonathan R. Veum;William Darity

  • Social Psychology, Unemployment and Macroeconomics

    William A. Darity;Arthur H. Goldsmith

  • The economics of identity: The origin and persistence of racial identity norms

    William A. Darity;William A. Darity;Patrick L. Mason;James B. Stewart

  • From Dark to Light: Skin Color and Wages Among African-Americans

    Arthur H. Goldsmith;Darrick Hamilton;William Darity

  • Stratification Economics: The Role of Intergroup Inequality

    William Darity;William Darity

  • Unemployment, joblessness, psychological well-being and self-esteem: Theory and evidence

    Arthur H. Goldsmith;Jonathan R. Veum;William Darity

  • Shades of discrimination: Skin tone and wages

    Arthur H. Goldsmith;Darrick Hamilton;William Darity Jr;William Darity Jr

  • The psychological impact of unemployment and joblessness.

    Arthur H. Goldsmith;Jonathan R. Veum;William Darity

  • Can ‘Baby Bonds’ Eliminate the Racial Wealth Gap in Putative Post-Racial America?:

    Darrick Hamilton;William Darity

  • Culture and entrepreneurship? African American and immigrant self-employment in the United States

    Vicki Bogan;William Darity

  • Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States Since 1945

    James K. Galbraith;William A. Darity;Samuel L. Myers

  • The Political Economy of Education, Financial Literacy, and the Racial Wealth Gap

    Darrick Hamilton;William A. Darity;William A. Darity

  • The Emerging Black Middle Class: Single and Living Alone

    Kris Marsh;William A. Darity;Philip N. Cohen;Lynne M. Casper

  • A Tour de Force in Understanding Intergroup Inequality: An Introduction to Stratification Economics

    William A. Darity;Darrick Hamilton;James B. Stewart

  • Employment Discrimination, Segregation, and Health

    William A. Darity

  • Does Welfare Dependency Cause Female Headship? The Case of the Black Family.

    William A. Darity;Samuel L. Myers

  • Shedding ‘light’ on marriage: the influence of skin shade on marriage for black females

    Darrick Hamilton;Arthur H. Goldsmith;William Darity

  • The Human Capital Approach to Black-White Earnings Inequality: Some Unsettled Questions

    William A. Darity

  • Race, Cognitive Skills, Psychological Capital and Wages*

    Arthur H. Goldsmith;William Darity;Jonathan R. Veum

  • Working hard for the money? Efficiency wages and worker effort.

    Arthur H Goldsmith;Jonathan R Veum;William Darity

Frequent Co-Authors

David K. Guilkey
David K. Guilkey University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mary T. Bassett
Mary T. Bassett Harvard University
Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer Harvard University
Paul Taubman
Paul Taubman University of Pennsylvania
Lance Taylor
Lance Taylor New School

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