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Darrick Hamilton is an American academic and administrator who is currently the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and a University Professor at
The New School for Social Research The New School for Social Research (NSSR), previously known as The University in Exile and The New School University, is a graduate-level educational division of The New School in New York City, United States. NSSR enrolls more than 1,000 stud ...
. He is also the director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School. Prior to assuming these roles in January 2021, Hamilton was executive director of th
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
at
Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...
. He is also the associate director of the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE, funded by the National Science Foundation and housed at the Samuel Dubois Cook Center for Social Equity) at
Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...
; Senior Research Associate the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity; a past President of the
National Economic Association The National Economic Association (NEA) is a learned society established in 1969, focused on initiatives in the field of economics. The purposes of the Association are "to promote the professional lives of minorities within the profession. In a ...
; and former Co-Associate Director of the
American Economic Association The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics, with approximately 23,000 members. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Review, an ...
Summer Training and Minority Fellowship Program. In December 2024, Professor Hamilton became the chief economist of the
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Research

As an applied
microeconomist Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms. Microeconomics focuses on the ...
, Hamilton's research focuses on the area of stratification economics. His work involves understanding and examining the causes and consequences of racial and ethnic disparities, and the associated remedies to address these inequalities. Some of his more prominent work has been on
baby bonds Baby bonds are a government policy in which every child receives at birth a publicly funded trust account, potentially with more generous funding for lower-income families. Economists William Darity and Darrick Hamilton proposed the policy in 2 ...
with economist
William A. Darity Jr. William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. (born April 19, 1953) is an American economist and social scientist at Duke University. Darity's research spans economic history, development economics, economic psychology, and the history of economic thought, but ...
This proposed federal wealth redistribution program calls for the issuance of government-backed bonds for children born into poverty to be redeemed when they reach 18 years of age. Hamilton's op-ed pieces have recently appeared in such media outlets as ''
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'', ''
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'', among others.


Education

Hamilton earned his Ph.D. in economics from
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...
in 1999, and his bachelor's degree (also in Economics) from
Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...
.


Selected works

* * * Hamilton, Darrick, William Darity Jr, Anne E. Price, Vishnu Sridharan, and Rebecca Tippett. "Umbrellas don’t make it rain: Why studying and working hard isn’t enough for Black Americans." New York: The New School 779 (2015): 780–781. * * Hamilton, Darrick, Arthur H. Goldsmith, and William Darity Jr. "Shedding “light” on marriage: The influence of skin shade on marriage for black females." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 72, no. 1 (2009): 30-50. * Goldsmith, Arthur H., Stanley Sedo, William Darity Jr, and Darrick Hamilton. "The labor supply consequences of perceptions of employer discrimination during search and on-the-job: Integrating neoclassical theory and cognitive dissonance." Journal of Economic Psychology 25, no. 1 (2004): 15–39.


Honors and awards

Throughout his career, Hamilton has received a variety of honors and awards, including the ''Inspiring Leaders in STEM Award'' (''INSIGHT into Diversity'' magazine, 2017); the ''Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poverty, the Underclass and Public Policy''; and the ''Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research''.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Darrick Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Oberlin College alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni 21st-century American economists African-American economists Microeconomists Presidents of the National Economic Association 21st-century African-American people