Samuel L. Myers Jr. (born 9 March 1949) is an American economist and Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice in the

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at the

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. He has been awarded the Samuel Z. Westerfield Jr., Award by the National Economic Association and the Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) and

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. In 2007, Myers was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Early life and education

Myers was raised near the campus of Morgan State University, where his father,

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was an economics professor. He was born deaf, as was his mother and his maternal grandfather. Through his father, Myers Jr. is of Jamaican descent. He graduated from Morgan State and then did his doctoral work at the

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Career

Myers has taught at the University of Texas, Austin,

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and the

, and has been an economist with the

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. He has served as president of both the National Economic Association and the Association of Public Policy and Management. He has authored or edited several books and dozens of papers using applied econometric techniques to study racial inequality in law enforcement, procurement and contracting, housing, faculty employment, food availability, family structure, and government aid.

Selected works

* C Chung, SL Myers Jr. "Do the poor pay more for food? An analysis of grocery store availability and food price disparities" Journal of consumer affairs 33 (2), 276-296 * SL Myers Jr. "Estimating the economic model of crime: Employment versus punishment effects" The Quarterly Journal of Economics 98 (1), 157-166 * Darity Jr, William A., and Samuel L. Myers Jr. "persistent disparity." Books (1998). * W Darity, SL Myers Jr "Changes in black family structure: Implications for welfare dependency" The American Economic Review 73 (2), 59-64 * SL Myers Jr, T Chan "Who benefits from minority business set‐asides? The case of New Jersey" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 15 (2), 202-226

References

African-American economists Living people 1949 births Morgan State University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni American deaf people 21st-century American economists Economists from Maryland American people of Jamaican descent 21st-century African-American people Presidents of the National Economic Association 20th-century African-American people {{US-economist-stub