Lucie Schmidt is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College. She is an empirical microeconomist working in the fields of labor and health economics and the economics of the family. She has written extensively on social safety net programs in the United States, and her work has been published in the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Health Economics, among others.
Schmidt is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Editor of the Review of the Economics of the Household, and a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. She co-founded and co-organizes the Virtual Economics of Poverty and Policy Seminar (VEPPS) and the Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor Economics Workshop (LAC-PaL). She also maintains a Twitter list of first generation college economists.
Before coming to Smith College, Schmidt spent 20 years in the Economics Department at Williams College, where she most recently served as the John J. Gibson Professor of Economics, and where she directed the Williams-Exeter Programme at the University of Oxford. She received her AB in Government from Smith College, and her MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan.
Email: lschmidt@smith.edu
Twitter: @LucieGSchmidt