{"id":816,"date":"2024-10-10T17:06:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T17:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/?page_id=816"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:12:14","slug":"shanike-smart-assistant-professor-of-economics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/?page_id=816","title":{"rendered":"Shanike Smart, Assistant Professor of Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Educational Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D. in Economics, SUNY Binghamton<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.A. in Economics, SUNY Binghamton, 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.Sc. (Distinction) in Economics, University of the West Indies, 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.A. (Honors) in Economics and Production &amp; Operations Management, University of Technology, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> Education Economics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Health Economics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Labor Economics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Development Economics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>COVID-19 Vaccine and Risk-Taking, <strong><em>Journal of Risk and Uncertainty <\/em><\/strong>(2024),1-25, with Solomon Polachek.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-8afa6e2\" id=\"working-papers\" data-block-id=\"8afa6e2\"><style>.stk-8afa6e2 {margin-bottom:0px !important;}<\/style><h3 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\">Working Papers<\/h3><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cPhasing Out Shift Schools: More Instructional Hours Linked to Better High-Stakes Test Scores&#8221; (<em>Job Market Paper<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Does Extended School Day Lead to Better High School Placement?&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Have Compulsory Schooling Laws Increased Educational Attainment in the US?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Works-in-Progress<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Name Change Signals in a High-Stakes Public School Setting: The Impact of Stigma on Academic Ambition and Achievement&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe Impact of School Closure due to a Landfill Fire on Student Performance,\u201d with Marlon Tracey and Chanita Holmes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-52a1ff76-75a8-4a40-a0a0-df5330238364\" href=\"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/files\/2026\/01\/Shanike-Smart_CV.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shanike Smart_CV<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/files\/2026\/01\/Shanike-Smart_CV.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-52a1ff76-75a8-4a40-a0a0-df5330238364\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educational Background Research Interests Publications Working Papers Works-in-Progress Curriculum Vitae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5289,"featured_media":0,"parent":185,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-816","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/816\/revisions\/854"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/economicsdept.blogs.bucknell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}