Ethan Schmick
Biographic Data
| ID | 2930845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ethan Schmick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ethan |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmick |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMICK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington and Jefferson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2925-8446 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Early Life Shocks, Market Adjustments, and Black-White Inequality
This paper investigates the long run impacts of an early life agricultural shock on Black and White sons in the U.S. South. The boll weevil, one of the most destructive agricultural pests in American history, decreased cotton production and resulted in substantial changes to the Southern economy. The impact of this shock on children who were born before and after its arrival is not a priori obvious; it could be positive or negative depending on w…
Vocational Rehabilitation and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from World War I Veterans
This article uses a linked sample of World War I Army veterans from the state of Missouri to study the impact of vocational rehabilitation on labor market outcomes for men wounded and disabled during the war. Veterans’ military service abstracts are linked to the 1940 US Census and a subset are linked to rehabilitation records. This creates a new dataset that contains information on military service, rehabilitation, and labor market outcomes. I f…
The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South
Focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, we explore the rise and fall of pellagra (a disease caused by inadequate niacin consumption) in the American South. We first consider the hypothesis that the South's monoculture in cotton undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference in differences estimation shows that after the arrival of the boll weevil, food production in affected co…
Collective Action and the Origins of the American Labor Movement
This article examines the relationship between collective action and the size of worker and employer groups in the United States. It proposes and tests a theory of union formation and strikes. Using a new county-by-industry level dataset containing the location of unions, the location of strikes, average establishment size, and the number of establishments around the turn of the twentieth century, I find that unions were more likely to form and s…
The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South
Focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, we explore the rise and fall of pellagra (a disease caused by inadequate niacin consumption) in the American South. We first consider the hypothesis that the South's monoculture in cotton undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference in differences estimation shows that after the arrival of the boll weevil, food production in affected co…
Collective Action and the Origins of the American Labor Movement
This article examines the relationship between collective action and the size of worker and employer groups in the United States. It proposes and tests a theory of union formation and strikes. Using a new county-by-industry level dataset containing the location of unions, the location of strikes, average establishment size, and the number of establishments around the turn of the twentieth century, I find that unions were more likely to form and s…
Collective Action and the Origins of the American Labor Movement
This article examines the relationship between collective action and the size of worker and employer groups in the United States. It proposes and tests a theory of union formation and strikes. Using a new county-by-industry level dataset containing the location of unions, the location of strikes, average establishment size, and the number of establishments around the turn of the twentieth century, I find that unions were more likely to form and s…
The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South
Focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, we explore the rise and fall of pellagra (a disease caused by inadequate niacin consumption) in the American South. We first consider the hypothesis that the South's monoculture in cotton undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference in differences estimation shows that after the arrival of the boll weevil, food production in affected co…
Vocational Rehabilitation and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from World War I Veterans
This article uses a linked sample of World War I Army veterans from the state of Missouri to study the impact of vocational rehabilitation on labor market outcomes for men wounded and disabled during the war. Veterans’ military service abstracts are linked to the 1940 US Census and a subset are linked to rehabilitation records. This creates a new dataset that contains information on military service, rehabilitation, and labor market outcomes. I f…
Early Life Shocks, Market Adjustments, and Black-White Inequality
This paper investigates the long run impacts of an early life agricultural shock on Black and White sons in the U.S. South. The boll weevil, one of the most destructive agricultural pests in American history, decreased cotton production and resulted in substantial changes to the Southern economy. The impact of this shock on children who were born before and after its arrival is not a priori obvious; it could be positive or negative depending on w…
Economics (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Global Health Care Issues (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Action (physics (1 works) · Action (physics) (1 works)