Lucie Schmidt

Assistant Professor of Economics

Office: Seeley 9
Webpage: http://lanfiles.williams.edu/~lschmidt/
E-mail: lschmidt@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-3143
Fax: (413) 597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
Fernald House
Williamstown, MA 01267

Education

University of Michigan, Ph.D., Economics, 2003
University of Michigan, M.A., Economics, 1997
Smith College, A.B., Government, 1992
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Fields of Specialization

Economics of the family
public finance and labor economics
government transfer programs and the well-being of low-income families
economics of gender

Research

Publications

"Gender, Marriage, and Asset Accumulation in the United States" (with Purvi Sevak), forthcoming, Feminist Economics Special Issue on Women and Wealth.

"Infertility Insurance Mandates and Fertility," forthcoming, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.

"The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity," 2004 (with John Bound, Julie Berry Cullen, and Austin Nichols), Journal of Public Economics 88(2): 2487-2514.

"AFDC, SSI, and Welfare Reform Aggressiveness: Caseload Reductions vs. Caseload Shifting," 2004 (with Purvi Sevak), Journal of Human Resources 39(3): 792-812.

"Work, Wages, and Welfare", 2001 (with Rebecca M. Blank). In The New World of Welfare, Rebecca M. Blank and Ron Haskins, eds. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.

Work Under Review

"Effects of Infertility Insurance Mandates on Fertility" August 2005.
"Health Disparities and Infertility: Impacts of State-Level Insurance Mandates", May 2005 (with Marianne Bitler).

"Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Children's Academic Achievement?" May 2004 (with Quinn Moore).

"Sometimes Close is Good Enough: The Value of Nearby Environmental Amenities," September 2003 (with Paul Courant), revise and resubmit at Journal of Regional Science.

Working Papers and Work in Progress

"Murphy Brown Revisited: Human Capital, Search, and Nonmarital Childbearing among Educated Women," June 2003.

"Planning for Parenthood: Effects of Imperfect Fertility Control and Risk Aversion on Women's Choices," June 2003.

"Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labor Supply for Older Workers" (with Purvi Sevak), April 2005.

"Great Expectations: How Probability Beliefs of Teenagers Affect Life-Altering Decisions" (with Robert J. Willis) April 2005.

"The Tax Reform Act of 1986, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Marital Decisions," 1999.

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