ETHAN SCHMICK
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Published and accepted


Early Life Shocks, Market Adjustments, and Black-White Inequality (with Karen Clay)
Conditionally accepted at ​The Economic Journal


Reconstruction-Era Education and Long-Run Black-White Inequality (with Daniel Jones)
Accepted at ​American Economic Journal: Economic Policy


The Determinants of Early Investments in Urban School Systems in the United States
​Education Finance and Policy, 2024, 19(3): 409-436.

Vocational Rehabilitation and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from World War I Veterans
Social Science History​, 2022. 46(1): 119-142.

The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South (with Karen Clay and Werner Troesken)
The Journal of Economic History, 2019. 79(1): 32-62.

Collective Action and the Origins of the American Labor Movement
The Journal of Economic History, 2018. 78(3): 744-784.

Does the Direct-response Method Induce Guilt Aversion in a Trust Game? (with David Amdur)
Economics Bulletin, 2013. 33(1): 687-693.

Working papers


The Long-Run Impacts of Early Investments in Urban School Systems in the United States (with Allison Shertzer)
Revise and resubmit at ​The Journal of Economic History

Works in progress


The Flexner Report, Physician Markets, and Mortality (with Karen Clay, Grant Miller, and Rita Portnykh) 

The Short and Long Run Effects of Black Strikebreakers on Racial Inequality (with Jessica LaVoice)


Collective Action and American Agricultural Development

Milk Stations, Infant Health, and Economic Productivity (with Brian Beach)

​Religion, Slavery and Abolition

Other writing


Book Review: ​How Growth Really Happens: The Making of Economic Miracles through Production, Governance, and Skills. By Michael Best.
The Review of Regional Studies, 2020. 50(1): 147-149.
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