NBER profile: William J. Collins.

William J. Collins is a Research Associate in the NBER's Development of the American Economy Program and an Associate Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University. Both his A.B. (1993) and his Ph.D. (1998) degrees in economics are from Harvard University.

Collins joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1998. In the same year, he received the Economic History Association's Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation on a North American topic.

During the 2001-2 academic year, Collins was a National Fellow at the NBER; in the 2003-4 academic year, he was the Model-Okun Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Collins serves on the editorial boards of...