E. Douglass Williams Department Chair Associate Professor of Economics Office: Walsh-Ellet 211 Phone: (931) 598-1805 E-Mail: dwilliam@sewanee.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Northwestern University
• A.B. summa cum laude, University of the South

Teaching Interests

• Labor Economics
• Law and Economics
• Economics of Poverty
• Industrial Organization
• Econometrics
• Economics of Financial Markets

Research Interests

• Market for Lawyers
• Tournaments
• Living Wage Legislation

Professional Involvement

• American Economic Association

Publications and Presentations

• “Santa Monica’s Minimum Wage: Assessing the Living Wage Movement’s New Frontier” (with R. Sander), Economic Development Quarterly (forthcoming 2004).
• “The Effectiveness of Tennessee's Forest Greenbelt Program in Protecting Forest Cover”, Landscape and Urban Planning (with R. Gottfried et al), August 2004.
• Western Economic Association International Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, “Hedonic Land Prices in a Dynamic Rural Landscape”, (conference paper co-authored with Robin Gottfried), July 2, 2004.
• The 9th International Symposium for Society and Resource Management, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, “The Effectiveness of Tennessee's Forest Greenbelt Program”, (conference paper co-authored with Robin Gottfried), June 2-5, 2003.
• Conference on Living Wage Research, University of California, Riverside, "The Los Angeles Living Wage: Who Bears the Cost?", April 2003.
• Southern Economic Association, Tampa, Florida, “An Integrated Analysis of the Effectiveness of Tennessee’s Forest Greenbelt Program,” (presented jointly with Robin Gottfried), Nov. 16-18, 2001.
• U.S Society for Ecological Economics, Duluth, Minnesota, “How Effective is Tennessee’s Forest Greenbelt Program in Protecting Forest Cover and Ecological Values?” (presented jointly with Robin Gottfried), July 11-13, 2001.
• Living Wage Policy and the Entry Level Workforce, a symposium sponsored by the Employment Policies Institute, Washington, D.C., “The Proposed Santa Monica Living Wage Ordinance”, June 13, 2001.
• “Living Wages and the Problem of Inequality in California”, in California Policy Options 2001 (with R. Sander and W. Blakeley), edited by Dan Mitchell and Patricia Nomura (Dec. 2000), pp. 62-83.
• An Empirical Analysis of the Proposed Santa Monica Living Wage prepared for the Empirical Research Group, UCLA, September 7, 2000.
• “A Little Theorizing about Big Law Firms”, (with R. Sander) in Lawyers: A Critical Reader , edited by Richard L. Abel, New York: New Press (1997), pp.64-70.
• An Empirical Analysis of the Proposed Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance prepared for the City of Los Angeles, January 17, 1997.
• “The Prospects for "Putting America to Work“ in the Inner City (with R. Sander), The Georgetown Law Journal, June 1993.
• “A Little Theorizing about Big Law Firms” (with R. Sander), Law and Social Inquiry, Summer 1992.
• “Why Are There So Many Lawyers?: Perspectives on a Turbulent Market”, (with R. Sander) Law and Social Inquiry, Summer 1989.