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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


Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioYes, We Can Reduce the Unemployment RateJune 29, 2011Northeastern University and the Brookings Institution
Save to My PortfolioHas the Recession Increased the NAIRU?June 29, 2011Northeastern University and the Brookings Institution
Save to My PortfolioThe Interaction of Labor Markets and InflationFebruary 2007The Brookings Institution
Save to My PortfolioThe IQ Paradox: Still ResolvedFebruary 05, 2002The Brookings Institution
Save to My PortfolioComments on Charles Wyplosz Paper: Do We Know How Low Should Inflation Be?November 02, 2000The First European Central Banking Conference
Save to My PortfolioRacial and Ethnic PreferenceNovember 1996Brookings Policy Brief # 9
Save to My PortfolioEconomic Reality vs. Campaign RhetoricOctober 1996Brookings Policy Brief #6
Save to My PortfolioA Bad Bill that Needs to Be FixedAugust 02, 1996CNN/TIME AllPolitics

Contact Information

wtdickens@gmail.com

202.797.6105
Brookings Office of Communications

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