Brookings: Experts - William T. Dickens

A New Approach to Estimating the Natural Rate of Unemployment

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

William Dickens discusses a new method for estimating the natural rate of unemployment by simultaneously estimating the Phillips and Beveridge curves.

Psychometrics Society Keynote on Modeling in Psychology

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

William Dickens gave the keynote lecture to the International Meetings of the Psychometrics Society. He spoke on what psychologists could learn about modeling psychological phenomena from the way economists use models and illustrated it with his own work on cognitive ability.

The Fiscal Effects of Investing in High-Quality Preschool Programs

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Children living in families with low incomes and those with poorly educated parents are much more likely than other children to grow up to be adults with less education, lower incomes, poorer health, and shorter lives, all of which severely impact federal, state and local budgets. William T. Dickens and Charles Baschnagel examine the effects of investment in selected prekindergarten education programs in a growth model of the U.S. economy to judge the impact they would have on these budgets.

What is g?

Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Paper by William T. Dickens (05/03/2007)

Cognitive Ability and IQ Gains

Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

In 2001 William Dickens and James Flynn proposed a model of cognitive ability that explains how large IQ gains, such as those observed in the United States and other countries over the 20th century, are possible despite the substantial roll played by genes in explaining differences among people within the same social group.

The Interaction of Labor Markets and Inflation

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Black Americans Reduce the Racial IQ Gap: Evidence from Standardization Samples

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Article by William T. Dickens and James R. Flynn, Psychological Science (October 2006)

The Effects of Investing in Early Education on Economic Growth

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Paper by William T. Dickens, Isabel V. Sawhill and Jeffrey Tebbs (April 2006)

The Effects of Investing in Early Education on Economic Growth

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Brookings Policy Brief #153 by William T. Dickens, Isabel V. Sawhill and Jeffrey Tebbs (April 2006)

Instinct and Choice: A Framework for Analysis

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Paper by William T. Dickens and Jessica L. Cohen

The IQ Paradox: Still Resolved

Tue, 05 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Paper by William T. Dickens and James R. Flynn (2/5/02)

A Foundation for Behavioral Economics

Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Paper by Jessica L. Cohen and William T. Dickens (12/01)

Have New Human Resource Management Practices Lowered the Sustainable Unemployment Rate?

Tue, 15 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Paper by Jessica Cohen, William T. Dickens, and Adam Posen (5/15/03)

Heritability Estimates Versus Large Environmental Effects: The IQ Paradox Resolved

Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Darwin's Origin of Species sparked the modern debate about genes versus environment in explaining differences between human individuals and groups. Ever since, the pendulum of scientific opinion has swung back and forth with consensus always out of reach. William Dickens proposes a model that could solve the paradox: people who have an advantage for a particular trait will become matched with superior environments for that trait; and that genes can derive a great advantage from this because genetic differences are persistent.

Options for Stabilization Policy: A New Analysis of Choices Confronting the Fed

Thu, 01 Feb 2001 00:00:00 GMT

In this policy brief, the authors propose an alternative to the conventional natural rate model. It is based on behavioral assumptions that we believe are more realistic than those underlying the natural rate model and that are backed by research on

Comments on Charles Wyplosz Paper: Do We Know How Low Should Inflation Be?

Thu, 02 Nov 2000 00:00:00 GMT

Commentary by William T. Dickens (11/02/00)

Near Rational Wage and Price Setting and the Long Run Phillips Curve

Fri, 02 Jun 2000 00:00:00 GMT

Brookings Economic Papers

Urban Problems and Community Development

Tue, 02 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT

This book surveys what we currently know and what we need to know about community development's past, current, and potential contributions. The book addresses the history of urban development startegies, the politics of resource allocation, business

Racial and Ethnic Preference

Fri, 01 Nov 1996 00:00:00 GMT

Policy Brief #9, by Thomas J. Kane and William T. Dickens (November 1996)

Economic Reality vs. Campaign Rhetoric

Tue, 01 Oct 1996 00:00:00 GMT

Policy Brief #6, by Charles L. Schultze, Gary Burtless, William T. Dickens, Robert D. Reischauer, and Barry P. Bosworth (October 1996)

A Bad Bill that Needs to Be Fixed

Fri, 02 Aug 1996 00:00:00 GMT

Opinion by William Dickens, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Labor and an Integrated Europe

Mon, 16 Aug 1993 00:00:00 GMT

In this book, leading labor economists and social scientists address an array of concerns about economic integration and the challenges of the Single Market Program, and offer insight into the labor community's likely response.