Carl P. Schmertmann
Professor of Economics
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Ph.D., California-Berkeley
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| Dr. Schmertmann's current research includes developing new estimation methods for demographic rates in small areas with sparse data, applying epidemiological stastistics to demography, measuring the fertility of US immigrants, and investigating immigration's effects on national age structures. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Demographic Research, as an editorial board member of Demography, and as a member of the PAA Advisory Committee to the US Census Bureau. |
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Areas of Specialization
Research
Demographic methods
Economic demography
Migration
Econometrics
Brazil
Teaching
Econometrics
Demographic Methods
Economic Demography
Introductory Economics
Education and Professional Experience
Assistant to Full
Professor, Department of Economics, and Research Associate, Center for the Study
of Demography and Population Health, Florida State University. August 1990 -
present.
Visiting Research Fellow, Population Research Center, University of
Texas-Austin, August 1998-July 1999
Visiting Assistant Professor, Departments of Demography and Economics,
University of California, Berkeley. January-June 1993.
Visiting Professor of Economics, Center for Regional Development and Planning (CEDEPLAR),
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 1989-1990.
Assistant Analyst, Congressional Budget Office, Human Resources and Community
Development Division, Washington, DC. 1981-1983.
Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, December 1988.
B.S. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1981.
Research
Selected Papers and
Publications
CP Schmertmann, RM Assunção, and JE Potter "Knox meets Cox: Adapting
Epidemiological Space-Time Statistics to Demographic Studies". Demography, in press.
CP Schmertmann, JE Potter, and SM Cavenaghi, "Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Patterns
in Brazil’s Fertility Transition". Population Research and Policy Review
27(1):1-15. 2008.
RM Assunção, CP Schmertmann, JE Potter, and SM Cavenaghi "Empirical Bayes
Estimation of Demographic Schedules for Small Areas". Demography
42(3):537-558. 2005
CP Schmertmann, "A System of Model Fertility Schedules with Graphically
Intuitive Parameters". Demographic Research 9-5:82-110. 2003
JE Potter, CP Schmertmann, and SM Cavenaghi, "Fertility and Development:
Evidence from Brazil". Demography 39(4):739-761. 2002.
CP Schmertmann, "A Simple Method for Estimating Age-Specific Rates from
Sequential Cross-Sections", Demography 39(2):287-310. 2002.
CP Schmertmann, "Fertility Estimation from Open Birth Interval Data", Demography
36(4):505-519. 1999.
CP Schmertmann, "Estimating Multistate Transition Hazards from Last-Move
Data", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94
(445):53-63. 1999.
CP Schmertmann, AA Amankwaa, and RD Long, "Three Strikes and You're Out:
Demographic Analysis of Mandatory Prison Sentencing", Demography
35(4):445-463. 1998.
CP Schmertmann, "Selectivity Bias Correction Methods in Polychotomous
Sample Selection Models," Journal of Econometrics 60:101-132.
January-February 1994.
CP Schmertmann, "Immigrants' Ages and the Structure of Stationary
Populations with Below-Replacement Fertility", Demography
29(4):595-612. November 1992.
Grants & Contracts
Co-Principal Investigator
(with JE Potter, Univ. of Texas): "Fertility Transition in Brazil
1960-2000". NIH Grant R01 HD041528. 9 Jul 2002-8 Jul 2005. (Total direct
costs: $540,000).
Co-Principal Investigator (with CG Swicegood, Univ. of Illinois, and FD Bean,
Univ. of Calif.-Irvine): "Immigration and Changes in US Fertility".
NIH Grant R01 HD38791. 1 Jun 2001- 31 May 2004. (Total direct costs: $600,000).
Co-Principal Investigator (with Monica Boyd, FSU): "Post-Immigration Mobility of the Foreign-Born
Elderly". NIA Grant R03 AG14509. 30 Sep 1997- 31 Dec 1998. (Total direct
costs: $40,000).
US Census Bureau Contract: "Analysis of 1996 American Community Survey Test
Data for Brevard County, FL". 1999. ($10,000).