Office: RSB 223
Phone: (804) 289-8569
Fax: (804) 289-8878
Email: rschmidt@richmond.edu
Website: http://www.richmond.edu/~schmidt/

Teaching:
Statistics
Econometrics

Research:
Demography and Economic Growth
Disability Economics
Economics of Education

Education:
BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA, PhD, Duke University

Selected Publications:
A Century of Demographic Change and Economic Growth: The Asian Experience in Regional and Temporal Perspective, Population Change, Labor Markets and Sustainable Growth (2007); An Analysis of the Effects of Vehicle Property Taxes on Vehicle Demand, National Tax Journal (2005); Evolution of Recent Economic-Demographic Modeling: A Synthesis, Journal of Population Economics (2005); Injecting Competition into Public-Sector Return-to-Work: Prospects for the ‘Ticket-to-Work’ Initiative, Contemporary Economic Policy (2003); Evaluating the Vocational Rehabilitation Program Using Longitudinal Data: Evidence for a Quasi-experimental Research Design, Evaluation Review (1999); Public Hospital Resource Allocation in El Salvador: Accounting for the Case Mix of Patients, Health Policy and Planning (1998); Saving, Dependency and Development, Journal of Population Economics (1996); Aggregate Population and Economic Growth Correlations: The Role of the Components of Demographic Change, Demography (1995); Evaluating Educational Inputs in Undergraduate Education, The Review of Economics and Statistics (1985); Who Maximizes What? A Study in Student Time Allocation, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (1983)

Academic and Professional Activities:
American Economics Association; Population Association of America; Western Economics Association

Awards:
The CSX Chair in Management and Accounting (1997-2003); Fellowship, Center for Demographic Studies, Duke University (1972-1977)