THE RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY OF BLACK ECONOMISTS: RANKING BY INDIVIDUALS AND DOCTORAL ALMA MATER.

While literature on the research productivity of economists in general is significant, very little is known about the research productivity of black economists. This paper examines the research productivity of black Ph.D. economists employed in academic institutions. Based upon bibliographic data reported in the Journal of Economic Literature's (JEL) EconLit Database, we provided rankings across four different measures of research productivity. We also provided a ranking of Ph.D.-granting institutions based on the number of black economists produced, and on the number of black economist alumni who are ranked as individual researchers. We find that William Darity Jr. is the highest ranked black economist, regardless of the measure of research productivity used. Darity's alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has produced the largest number of ranked black economists. Other institutions that have been quite successful in producing ranked black economists include Harvard, University of California-Berkeley, Stanford, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]