William M. Rodgers, III is an American economist who is a professor of

Public Policy Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs. Public p ...

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

and the former Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Labor in 2000–2001.

Education and early life

Rodgers graduated from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

and earned a PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

Career

Rodgers joined the faculty of the

College of William and Mary The College of William & Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, abbreviated as William & Mary, W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William III a ...

in 1993. He was Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from 2000 to 2001, and joined the faculty of Rutgers University's School of Management and Labor Relations in 2006. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and has been president of the National Economic Association.

Selected publications

* Rodgers, William M. Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009. * Valerie, Wilson, and William M. Rogers III. "Black-white wage gaps expand with rising wage inequality." Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. (2016). * Badgett, MV Lee, W. M. Rogers, Darrell L. Williams, Tom Larson, Ward Thomas, Mark Garrett, and Paula Sirola. "The impact of affirmative action on public sector employment and contracting in California." University of California Office of the President, Oakland (1997). * Rabby, Faisal, and William M. Rodgers III. "The Impact of 9/11 and the London Bombings on the Employment and Earnings of UK Muslims." (2010).

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American economists Dartmouth College alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni African-American economists United States Department of Labor officials American labor economists Rutgers University faculty Presidents of the National Economic Association 21st-century African-American academics 21st-century American academics {{US-economist-stub