William Johnson

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

Equity vs. Effciency in Subsidies to Higher Education (.pdf)

Fixed Costs and Hours Constraints (.pdf)

House Prices and Female Labor Force Participation (.pdf)

Research Papers

"Are Public Subsidies to Higher Education Regressive ?", Education Finance and Policy, Summer 2006

"The Economics of Ideas and the Ideas of Economists", Southern Economic Journal, July 2006

"Faculty without Students: Resource Allocation in Higher Education", (with Sarah Turner) Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2009