Smith, Robert Stewart

Associate Dean for Academic Af

research

research and scholarship focus

  • analyses of various labor market policies, especially those in the safety and health area
  • labor economics
  • occupational safety and health
  • workers' compensation

 

primary investigator of

domestic geographic focus

affiliations

faculty appointment in

administrative appointment

member of graduate field

service

current professional activities

  • Task group on Occupational Factors in Lung Diseases, National Heart and Lung Institute Task Force on Prevention, Control and Education in Respiratory Diseases, 1976.
  • Panel on Occupational Safety and Health Statistics, National Research Council (National Academy of Sciences), 1985-87.
  • Editorial Board, American Economic Review, 1988-1991
  • Associate Editor, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1988
  • Editorial Board, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1981-1993
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1987- present
  • Editorial Board, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 1987-1990
  • Assistant Editor, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1991-1993
  • Consultant, ?Work in the 21st Century? project, Rand and U.S. Department of Labor

background

educational background

  • Ph.D., Stanford University, 1971
  • M.A., Harvard University, 1966
  • B.A., Claremont McKenna College (Phi Beta Kappa), 1962

professional background

  • Auditor, Ernst & Ernst, 1962-63
  • Accounting Instructor, U.S. Army, 1963-65
  • High School Teacher, 1966-67
  • Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, 1971-72
  • Office of Evaluation, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation, and Research, U.S. Department of Labor (on leave from University of Connecticut), 1973-74
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Labor Economics, School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Cornell University, 1974-76
  • Associate Professor, Department of Labor Economics, ILR, Cornell University, 1976-82
  • Professor, Department of Labor Economics, ILR, Cornell University, 1982- present
  • Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, ILR, Cornell University, 1988- present
  • Acting Dean (August-October), ILR, Cornell University, 1993
  • Acting Dean (January-May), ILR, Cornell University, 1997
  • Acting Dean (January-June), ILR, Cornell University, 2002
  • Acting Dean (July), ILR, Cornell University, 2005
  • Co-principal Investigator, New York's Workers' Compensation program

awards and distinctions

General Mills Foundation Award for Innovation in Instruction, 1999

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

Books

  • The Occupational Safety and Health Act: Its Goals and Its Achievements ; American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Evaluative Study Series ; 1976
  • Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy; 9th edition (with Ronald Ehrenberg) ; Addison Wesley Longman ; 2006

Articles or Chapters

  • Pension Funding in the Public Sector (with Olivia Mitchell) ; Review of Economics and Statistics ; 1992
  • The Development of the Neoclassical Tradition in Labor Economics (with George Boyer) ; Industrial and Labor Relations Review ; 2001
  • The Predicted Impact of the Black Lung Benefits Program on the Coal Industry (with Morris Goldstein) ; Evaluating the Labor-market Effects of Social Programs, Ashenfelter and Blum (Eds.) ; Industrial Relations Sections/Princeton University ; 1977
  • Have OSHA and Workers' Compensation Made the Workplace Safer? ; Research Frontiers in Industrial Relations and Human Resources ; Industrial Relations Research Association ; 1992
  • Comparable Worth: Limited Coverage and the Exacerbation of Inequality ; Industrial and Labor Relations Review 41, 2 ; 1988
  • The Effect of OSHA Records Check Inspections on Reported Occupational Injuries in Manufacturing Establishments (with John Ruser) ; Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1, 4 ; 1988
  • Profit Sharing and Employment Stability (with James Chelius) ; Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 43 ; 1990
  • Mostly on Monday: Is Workers' Compensation Covering Off-the-Job Injuries? ; Borga and Appel (Eds.), Benefits, Costs, and Cycles in Workers' Compensation ; Kluwer Academic Publishers ; 1990
  • Reestimating OSHA's Effects: Have the Data Changed? (with John Ruser) ; Journal of Human Resources, 24,2 ; Spring 1991