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Nonresident Senior Fellow

William T. Dickens

William T. Dickens

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

Bill Dickens researches the malleability of cognitive ability; fiscal effects of investment in early education; the relationship of inflation, wage and unemployment; and economic development. He is currently collaborating in using data on individual wage changes to measure the extent, nature, causes and consequences of wage rigidity.

 



Expertise

Affirmative action; effects of trade on employment and wages; inflation; IQ and achievement testing; labor markets; monetary policy; unemployment

Background

Past Positions
Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley;Senior Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers;Visiting Assistant Professor, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981;B.A., Bard College, 1976

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