Darrick Hamilton -

BABY TRUST THEORIST

Darrick Hamilton is the director of the doctoral program in public and urban policy, jointly appointed as a professor of economic and urban policy, at the Milano School and the Department of Economics of the New School in New York. His specialty is stratification economics, fusing social science methods to examine the causes, consequences and remedies of racial and ethnic inequality in education, health and economic outcomes. This includes examinations of the intersections of identity, racism, colorism and socioeconomic outcomes. He, along with William Darity Jr. at Duke University, recently proposed
the idea of a “baby trust fund” — endowing every citizen with a trust fund at birth (he articulated, as a thought exercise, the sum of up to $50,000 USD for the poorest children) — as a possible response to economic inequality.

Darrick Hamilton -

BABY TRUST THEORIST

Darrick Hamilton is the director of the doctoral program in public and urban policy, jointly appointed as a professor of economic and urban policy, at the Milano School and the Department of Economics of the New School in New York. His specialty is stratification economics, fusing social science methods to examine the causes, consequences and remedies of racial and ethnic inequality in education, health and economic outcomes. This includes examinations of the intersections of identity, racism, colorism and socioeconomic outcomes. He, along with William Darity Jr. at Duke University, recently proposed
the idea of a “baby trust fund” — endowing every citizen with a trust fund at birth (he articulated, as a thought exercise, the sum of up to $50,000 USD for the poorest children) — as a possible response to economic inequality.

Darrick Hamilton

Darrick Hamilton
Darrick Hamilton is the director of the doctoral program in public and urban policy, jointly appointed as a professor of economic and urban policy, at the Milano School and the Department of Economics of the New School in New York. His specialty is stratification economics, fusing social science methods to examine the causes, consequences and remedies of racial and ethnic inequality in education, health and economic outcomes. This includes examinations of the intersections of identity, racism, colorism and socioeconomic outcomes. He, along with William Darity Jr. at Duke University, recently proposed
the idea of a “baby trust fund” — endowing every citizen with a trust fund at birth (he articulated, as a thought exercise, the sum of up to $50,000 USD for the poorest children) — as a possible response to economic inequality.