Darrick Hamilton is an Assistant Professor at Milano – The New School for Management and Urban Policy, an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Economics at The New School for Social Research, an affiliate scholar at the Center for American Progress, and a co-Associate Director of the American Economic Association Summer Research and Minority Scholarship Program. He earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1999. While in graduate school he received the department’s Most Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, a Social Science Research Council’s International Predissertation Fellowship, and upon graduation received the National Economic Association's 2001 Rhonda M. Williams Dissertation Award. Professor Hamilton was a Ford Foundation Fellow on Poverty, the Underclass and Public Policy at the Poverty Research and Training Center, and the Program for Research on Black Americans both at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 1999-2001, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the Institution for Policy Studies, Yale University from 2001-2003. His work focuses on the causes and consequences of racial and ethnic inequality in economic and health outcomes. He has published articles on disparities in: wealth, homeownership, and labor market outcomes. His articles can be found in the following publications: African American Research Perspectives, American Economics Review, Applied Economics Letters, Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Housing Studies, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Human Resources, Review of Black Political Economy, Social Science Quarterly, Southern Economics Journal, and Transforming Anthropology. In addition, his research appears in edited volumes published by The University of Michigan Press, National Urban League, and Oxford University Press. His research agenda has been supported by grants from the Ford Foundation, National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Goldsmith, Arthur, Darrick Hamilton, and William Darity, Jr. 2007. “From Dark to Light: Skin Color and Wages Among African Americans” Journal of Human Resources, 42(4):701-738
Hamilton, Darrick, Dennis Derryck, and Sabine Salandy. 2007. “The State of Black Employment in New York City: An Analysis of the Construction Industry” in edited volume: The State of Black New York 2007. The New York Urban League
Gershburg, Alec and Darrick Hamilton. February 5th, 2007. “Bush’s Double Standard on Race in Schools” Christian Science Monitor, Opinion-Editorial
Chietji, Ngina, and Darrick Hamilton. 2006. “Estimating the Effect of Race and Ethnicity on Wealth Accumulation and Asset-Ownership Patterns” in Jessica Gordon Nembhard and Ngina Chiteji’s edited volume: Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States. University of Michigan Press
Goldsmith, Arthur, Darrick Hamilton, and William Darity, Jr. 2006. “Does a Foot-in-the-Door Matter?: White-Nonwhite Differences in the Wage Return to Tenure and Prior Workplace Experience” Southern Economic Journal, 73(2):267-306.
Goldsmith, Arthur, Darrick Hamilton, and William Darity, Jr. 2006. “Shades of Discrimination: Skin Tone and Wages” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 96(2):242-245
Hamilton, Darrick. 2006. “The Racial Composition of American Jobs” edited by George Curry: The 2006 State of Black America. The National Urban League
Chiteji, Ngina, and Darrick Hamilton. 2005. “Kin Networks and Asset Accumulation” in Michael Sherraden’s edited volume: Inclusion in the American Dream: Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy. Oxford University Press
Darity, Jr., William, Jason Dietrich and Darrick Hamilton. 2005. “Bleach in the Rainbow: Latin Ethnicity and Preference for Whiteness” Transforming Anthropology, 13(2):103-10
Shaikh, Anwar, Darrick Hamilton, and Jeff Madrick. 2005. “The Economic Consequences of George Bush: The Debt, the Dollar, and Social Security: A Panel Discussion” Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, 45(1):52-75
Freeman, Lance, and Darrick Hamilton. 2004. “The Changing Determinants of Inter-Racial Homeownership Disparities: New York City in the 1990's.” Housing Studies, 19(3):301-23.
Agesa, Jacqueline, and Darrick Hamilton. 2004. “Competition and Discrimination: The Effects of Inter-Industry Concentration and Import Penetration” Social Science Quarterly, 85(1):121-35.
Goldsmith, Arthur, Stanley Sedo, William Darity, Jr., and Darrick Hamilton. 2004. “The Labor Supply Consequences of Perceptions of Employer Discrimination During Search and on-the-Job: Integrating Neoclassical Theory and Cognitive Dissonance” Journal of Economic Psychology, 25(1):15-39.
Freeman, Lance, and Darrick Hamilton. 2002. “A Dream Deferred Or Realized: Trends in Minority Homeownership in New York” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 92(2):320-24.
Also Published in Milano Review, 4. 2004
Chiteji, Ngina, and Darrick Hamilton. 2002. “Family Connections and the Black-White Wealth Gap Among the Middle Class” Review of Black Political Economy, 30(1):9-27.
Darity, Jr., William, Darrick Hamilton, and Jason Dietrich. 2002. “Passing on Blackness: Latinos, Race, and Earnings in the USA” Applied Economics Letters. 9(13):847-53.