Carl P. Schmertmann

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, December 1988.

B.S. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1981.

Courses Taught

Econometrics
Demographic Methods
Economic Demography
Introductory Economics

Awards & Honors

External Grants

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).

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.

Selected Publications

CP Schmertmann and ME Hauer, “Bayesian Estimation of Total Fertility from a Population’s Age-Sex Structure”. Statistical Modelling 19(3):223-247. 2019.

CP Schmertmann and MR Gonzaga, “Bayesian Estimation of Age-Specific Mortality and Life Expectancy for Small Areas with Defective Vital Records”, Demography 55(3):1363-1388. 2018

CP Schmertmann, “Adjusting for Population Shifts and Covariates in Space-Time Interaction Tests”. Biometrics 71(3):714-720. 2015.

CP Schmertmann, E Zagheni, J Goldstein and M Myrskylä. “Bayesian Forecasting of Cohort Fertility”. Journal of the American Statistical Association 109(506):500-513. 2014.

CP Schmertmann, SM Cavenaghi, RM Assunção and JE Potter. “Bayes plus Brass: Estimating Total Fertility for Many Small Areas from Sparse Census Data”. Population Studies 67(3):255-273. 2013

CP Schmertmann. “Stationary Populations with Below-Replacement Fertility”. Demographic Research Vol 26-14. 2012.

CP Schmertmann, RM Assunção, and JE Potter “Knox meets Cox: Adapting Epidemiological Space-Time Statistics to Demographic Studies”. Demography 47(3):629-650. 2010.

JE Potter, CP Schmertmann, RM Assunção & SM Cavenaghi, “Mapping the Timing, Pace, and Scale of the Fertility Transition in Brazil”. Population and Development Review 36(2):283-307. 2010.

CP Schmertmann, JE Potter, and SM Cavenaghi, “Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Patterns in Brazil’s Fertility Transition”. Population Research and Policy Review27(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.