Rate My Professor Edward Schumacher

Edward J. Schumacher, Ph.D., serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Care Administration at Trinity University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Florida State University, as well as an M.A. and B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. With thirty years of experience in academia, Professor Schumacher teaches courses in health care economics, operations management, data analysis, qualitative methods and information management, and economic aspects of health care administration. For the past eleven years, he has directed Trinity University’s residential and executive Master’s programs in health care administration. In collaboration with colleague Patrick Shay, he has integrated innovation into the curriculum, including the development of the internal Tiger Tank innovation curriculum and Trinity’s national Healthcare PRISm Pitch Competition. These efforts contributed to the program receiving the 2022 CAHME/George and Regi Herzlinger Innovation Education Award. Earlier in his career, he was awarded the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors Distinguished Award for Teaching. Professor Schumacher is a member of Academy Health, the International Health Economics Association, and the Society of Labor Economists.

Professor Schumacher’s research focuses on health care labor markets, health economics, labor economics, and quantitative methods, with specific interests in empirical analysis of unions, the labor market for workers with disabilities, and hospital competition and technology investment. He has authored numerous publications in leading journals, including The Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Labor Economics, and Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Key works include "Match Bias in Wage Gap Estimates Due to Earnings Imputation" (2004), "Monopsony Power and Relative Wages in the Labor Market for Nurses" (1995), "Unions, Wages, and Skills" (1998), "Foreign-Born Nurses in the US Labor Market" (2011), and "Private Sector Union Density and the Wage Premium: Past, Present, and Future" (2016). His scholarship examines wage determination, union effects, monopsony power, skill differentials, and labor market dynamics among nurses and healthcare workers.