William Johnson

Georgia S Bankard Professor

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-3251
Personal Website

Address:
PO Box 400182
Department of Economics
Monroe Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182

Research Interests

labor economics; public economics; economics of information

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Wesleyan University
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Current Downloadable Papers

"Evaluating a Simple Model for Estimating Black-White Gaps in Median Wages (.pdf)," with D. Neal and Y. Kitamura

"Basic Skills and the Black White Earnings Gap," (.pdf)with Derek Neal

"Are Public Subsidies to Higher Education Regressive?" (.pdf)

Research Papers

"A Theory of Job Shopping", Quarterly Journal of Economics, May, 1978.;

"The Trade-off between Equality and Efficiency," (with Edgar Browning), Journal of Political Economy, April, 1984;

"The Economics of Copying," Journal of Political Economy, February, 1985;

"Labor Supply and Marital Separation," (with Jon Skinner), American Economic Review, June, 1986;

"Income Redistribution in a Federal System," American Economic Review, June, 1988;

"The Role of Pre-Market Factors in the Black-White Wage Gap," (with Derek Neal), Journal of Political Economy, October, 1996.