William T. Dickens

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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.

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Expertise

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

Experience

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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