William R. Johnson

Georgia S. Bankard Professor and Chair of the Department of  Economics,

University of Virginia

email: wjohnson at virginia dot edu

phone:  (434) 924-3251
fax:       (434) 982-2904
U.S. mail and UVA messenger mail address: 

 P.O. Box 400182,  Charlottesville, VA  22904-4182
Fedex and private delivery: 

Department of Economics, Room 312, 2015 Ivy Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903

Office:  Room 326A, 2015 Ivy Rd  
 

Editor:  Journal of Labor Economics

 

Editor: Papers and Proceedings of the American Economic Association

Associate Editor:  Southern Economic Journal

 

Past-President:  Southern Economic Association


 

Course Materials

 

 

 

 

 

My Vita


 

Recent Research Papers (downloadable as PDF files)

 

Black –White Differences 

·         Evaluating a Simple Model for Estimating Black-White Gaps in Median Wages (with D. Neal and Y. Kitamura), AER, May 2000

·         Basic Skills and the Black-White Earnings Gap (with Derek Neal)  In C. Jencks and M. Phillips, The Black-White Test Score Gap

Higher Education

·         Are Public Subsidies to Higher Education Regressive ? (Education Finance and Policy, Summer 2006)

·         When is the Efficient Subsidy to Higher Education the Equitable Subsidy ?

·         Faculty without Students:  Resource Allocation in Higher Education (with Sarah Turner)

Other Labor Topics

·         Hours Constraints are Partly Illusory

Intellectual Property

·         Creative Pricing in Markets for Intellectual Property (Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, vol 2(1), 2005)

·         The Economics of Ideas and the Ideas of Economists (presidential address to the Southern Economic Association), published in the Southern Economic Journal, July 2006)
 

Op Ed Pieces:

·         "A Steadier State for Hiring in Colleges" (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 6, 2003)

·         "Lawn of Averages" (Washington Post, March 9, 2003)


 
 

To the Economics Department Home Page
 
 
 

Last Updated on Oct 27, 2008  by William R. Johnson