William Theodore Dickens(born December 31, 1953)[1]is an American economist. He is a University Distinguished Professor of Economics and Social Policy atNortheastern University.
William Theodore Dickens | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 31, 1953 |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Labor economics |
| Institution | Northeastern University |
| Alma mater | Bard College(B.A., 1976),Massachusetts Institute of Technology(Ph.D., 1981) |
Career
editDickens was on the faculty of theUniversity of California, Berkeleyfrom 1980 until 1995. While on leave he served as a senior economist with the President of the United States'Council of Economic Advisers,in 1993-94 where he worked forLaura Tyson.[2][3][4]He was a Faculty Research Fellow and then a Research Associate with theNational Bureau of Economic Researchfrom 1982 to 1998. He was a senior fellow in Economic Studies at theBrookings Institutionfrom 1995 to 2007, where he was a visiting fellow from 1994 to 1995 and a non resident senior fellow from 2007-2016.[2]In 2007, he became Thomas C. Schelling Visiting Professor at theUniversity of Maryland,a position he held until joining Northeastern in June 2008.[5]He subsequently served as aRussell Sage FoundationVisiting Scholar for one year.[2]He was chair of the Department of Economics at Northeastern from 2013-2018.
Research
editDickens' research interests includeunemployment,[6][7]race and intelligence,[8][9]and changes in IQ over time (theFlynn effect).[10]For example, he co-authored a 2006 study withJames Flynn[11]showing that the black-white IQ gap in the United States had decreased in size by at least 25% between 1972 and 2002.[8][12]He and Flynn had previously proposed a hypothesis for why IQ appears to be both highly heritable and significantly affected by the environment. Their hypothesis argued that individual's IQs are significantly affected by both genes and environment, but that people's environments change in response to their IQs.[13][14]
References
edit- ^"William T. Dickens".Name Authority File.Library of Congress.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^abc"William T. Dickens Curriculum Vitae"(PDF).Brookings Institution.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^Maclay, Kathleen (16 August 2000)."Economist to help Justice Department analyze mergers, competition".The Berkeleyan.University of California, Berkeley.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^Peterson, Jonathan (21 August 1994)."West Coast Economists Forge Axis With D.C."Los Angeles Times.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^"Renowned Economics Scholar William T. Dickens Appointed to Northeastern University Faculty".News@Northeastern.Northeastern University.7 July 2008.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^Foreman, Tom (2 August 2013)."7%-plus: The new abnormal".CNN.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^O'Brien, Matthew (12 December 2012)."I Can't Stop Looking at These Terrifying Long-Term Unemployment Charts".The Atlantic.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^abMorin, Richard (9 August 2006)."Analysis Shows 'IQ Gap' Closing".The Washington Post.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^Gellene, Denise (22 June 2007)."Firstborn children found to have higher intelligence".Los Angeles Times.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^Johnson, Steven (1 May 2005)."Dome Improvement".Wired.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^Dickens, William T.; Flynn, James R. (October 2006). "Black Americans Reduce the Racial IQ Gap".Psychological Science.17(10): 913–920.CiteSeerX10.1.1.186.2540.doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01802.x.PMID17100793.S2CID6593169.
- ^Viadero, Debra (21 June 2006)."Black-White Gap in IQ Scores Closing, Study Finds".Edweek.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^Begley, Sharon(22 April 2001)."Are We Getting Smarter?".Newsweek.137(17): 50–51.PMID11338628.Retrieved14 June2017.
- ^Dickens, William; Flynn, James (2001)."Heritability estimates vs. large environmental effects: the IQ paradox resolved".Psychological Review.Retrieved16 December2020.
External links
edit- Faculty pageat theWayback Machine(archived 2017-07-11)
- William Dickenspublications indexed byGoogle Scholar