2001 Election of Officers - Nominees
President-Elect
Board
Samuel Myers, Jr. (Chair, University of Minnesota)
Charles Betsey (Howard University)
Gregory Price (National Science Foundation)
Rucker Johnson (University of Michigan).
William Rodgers is the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary and a member of the Wilkins Forum at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute. His research focuses on general issues in labor economics and the economics of social problems. His work examines a variety of topics including the relationship between racial earnings gaps and market-wide earnings inequality; gender inequality; the economics of education; affirmative action; and the evaluation of the impact of labor market policies.
Rodgers' recent research explores the impact that the 1990's economic expansion has had on the earnings and employment of Americans. Currently, he is examining the impact that increases in the federal minimum wage have on the food security of American families.
Professor Rodgers has been an Associate Editor for the Southern Economic Journal for two years and co-edited the book Prosperity for All: The Economic Boom and African Americans (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000). He served as the Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from January 2000 to January 2001. He is the director of the newly created Center for the Study of Equality at the College of William and Mary.
Professor Rodgers graduated from Dartmouth College and earned M.A.'s from the University of California at Santa Barbara and Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He is a past member of both the Williamsburg-James City County School Board and a Trustee for the New Horizons Regional Vocational Education Center. Currently, Professor Rodgers serves on the boards of the National Economic Association, the United Way of Greater Williamsburg and the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Minorities in the Economics Profession.
Djeto Assané is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was educated at the Université d'Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (BA,) and the University of Colorado, Boulder (MA, PhD). His teaching areas are Statistics, Econometrics, Mathematical Economics and Microeconomics. He was a guess lecturer at the Minority Scholarship Program held this past summer at the University of Colorado at Denver. His current research interests are Institutions and Economic Growth and Currency Unions in Francophone Sub-Sahara African Countries. His recent publications have appeared American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Development Studies, African Development Review, and World Development.
Dr. Andrew Felton Brimmer is President of Brimmer & Company, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based economic and financial consulting firm, and he serves simultaneously as Wilmer D. Barrent Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is a former Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He is also former Chairman of the Presidentially-appointed Financial Control Board, which overseas the fiscal affairs of the District of Columbia.
Dr. Brimmer has published extensively. He has authored several books and many articles in economic and financial journals. He has concentrated mainly on banking and monetary policy, international finance, and the economic status of black Americans. Brimmer has received a number of honorary degrees -- including Honorary Doctor of Laws awarded to him by Harvard University in June 1999. He has also been honored several times by the economics profession. He was the Richard T. Ely Lecturer of the American Economics Association (AEA) in 1981, and he was Distinguished Lecturer on Economics in Government of the AEA (joint with the Society of Government Economists) in 1988. He was Vice President of the AEA in 1989. He served as Westerfield Lecturer of the National Economic Association in 1990. He was President of the Eastern Economics Association in 1991-92, and he was elected a Fellow in 1993. He as President (1997) of the North American Economics and Finance Association.
Dr. Brimmer earned a B.A. and M.A. in economics at the University of Washington. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
William Darity, Jr., is the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include racial and ethnic economic inequality, North-South models of trade and growth, interpreting Mr. Keynes, the economics of the Atlantic slave trade, and the social psychological effects of exposure to unemployment. He has published over 100 articles in professional journals and authored or edited 7 books. His most recent publication, coauthored with Samuel Myers, Jr., is "Persistent Disparity: Racial Economic Inequality in the United States Since 1945" (1998). His avocations include playing blues harmonica, reading science fiction, and coaching youth sports in Durham, N.C.
Debby A. Lindsey, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at Howard University. Her research efforts have focused on consumer credit, racial discrimination in mortgage lending, fair lending, and black consumer demand analysis for luxury automobiles. Dr. Lindsey has published in the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Research on Minority Affairs, Mortgage Banking Magazine, CRA Bulletin and numerous conference proceedings. She currently serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Research on Minority Affairs, the Advisory Council for the American Society for Competitiveness and has served on the executive board for the National Economic Association.
Dr. Lindsey has served as Project Manager and Chief Economist for the Freddie Mac Consumer Credit Education Initiative (CCEI) contract for Howard University. She is the lead person on the Howard research team and has played a pivotal role in helping Freddie Mac and other HBCUs to develop research questions that shed light on African- American issues. The contract produced credit behavior focus group reports, a national survey analyzing African American and other minorities credit behavior and a consumer credit education curriculum. Her work on this contract combined with her other credit research is bringing national recognition to Howard University as the leading authority on credit and lending as it relates to race. This national acclaim is reflected in the fact that Howard hosted the first Freddie Mac sponsored National Credit Symposium. Dr. Lindsey played two roles in Credit Symposium --lead coordinator at HU and presented her research findings on the "Impact of Hispanic Culture on Credit Behavior". Dr. Lindsey is currently serving as an expert witness in a federal lawsuit in Tennessee on behalf of African-American plaintiffs allegedly discriminated against in automobile financing (12/98-present). Two major reports were produced by Dr. Lindsey, which has lead to class action lawsuits against Nissan Motors Acceptance Corporation (11-9-99) and General Motors Acceptance Corporation 19/99). She also trains mortgage lenders from all over the country in the use of statistics for fair lending (July 1999).
In addition to being Project Manager on the Freddie Mac contract, she has also conducted a high level and quality of research, grants and presentations for the academic year 1999-2000. Her research on credit and lending is summarized as follows: Research monographs: Debby A. Lindsey, Thinking Like A Lender, Freddie Mac, 5/3/00; Debby A. Lindsey, Credit Management, Freddie Mac, 2/28/00; Debby A. Lindsey, Amedetsion, Kidane, Charles Betsy and Serge Madhere, The Impact of Hispanic Culture on Credit Behavior, Freddie Mac 12/7/99; Debby Lindsey, Racial Impact of NMAC's Finance Charge Markup Policy, Law Offices Clint Watkins, Brentwood, TN 11/9/99 and Debby Lindsey, Racial Impact of GMAC's Finance Charge Markup Policy, Law Offices Clint Watkins, Brentwood, TN 11/19/99. Funded Research: "Consumer Credit Education Initiative", Freddie Mac, 12/99 and "Hispanic Cultural Attributes Influence Credit Behavior?", School of Business, HU, 5/00.
Michael A. Stoll is an Assistant Professor of Policy Studies in the School of Public Policy and Social Research and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in Urban Planning in 1995 and a BS in Political Economy from UC Berkeley. He served as a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City in 1999-2000. His main research interests include the study of urban poverty and inequality, specifically the interplay of labor markets, race/ethnicity, geography and workforce development.
Dr. Stoll's published work has included an examination of the labor market difficulties of African Americans, in particular the role that racial residential segregation, job location patterns, employer discrimination, transportation and job information play in limiting employment opportunities. He has also written extensively on the labor demand for welfare recipients and the barriers to work they face in low-skill labor markets in response to questions about their employability under federal welfare reform legislation.
Currently, Dr. Stoll has begun a major research project to examine the labor market consequences of mass incarceration in the United States. This research program will include a detailed examination of employers' willingness to hire ex-offenders and whether employers statistically discriminate in hiring against groups with high incarceration rates, such as African Americans.
Dr. Romie Tribble, Jr. is Professor of Economics and the Associate Provost for the Liberal Arts and Education. Dr. Tribble has held the latter administrative position at Spelman College since 1998 while serving as a faculty member at the college since 1984.
Professor Tribble's areas of teaching interest are economic development, international economics, political economy and the welfare economic implications of antitrust and industrial organization. As an instructor of economics, Dr. Tribble has directed the department's senior thesis course since 1993 and cites over 250 theses of publication quality which he has directed.
Among recent scholarly publication are those related to the S-curve Hypothesis e.g. "A Restatement of the S-curve Hypothesis" published in the Review of Development Economics (June '99). His recent presentations on the S-curve include "Does the S-curve Differ Across Race and Ethnicity" at the July 2000 annual meeting of the Western Economic Association and "A Cross-Sectional and Time Series Synthesis of the S-curve Hypothesis" to be presented at October 2001 annual meeting of the Atlantic Economic Society. A forthcoming publication in the Proceedings of 2000 World Congress on Human Coexistence and Sustainable Development held in Montreal is entitled "Free Versus Fair Trade".
His college service includes Associate Coordinator of the 25th annual meeting of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature held on the Spelman College campus from May 1-5, 2001.
Professor Tribble holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Colorado State University, a Masters of Arts in Economics from the University of Denver and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.