Mark C. Long
Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2002
Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209E
marklong@u.washington.edu
206.543.3787
Areas of Specialization:
Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Public Policy, Economics of Race and Inequality, Benefit-Cost Analysis, and Applied Econometrics.
Mark C. Long joined the Evans School faculty in 2004. His education-related research focuses on: (1) gender disparities in educational attainment; (2) the effects of high school course-taking and school and college quality on test scores, educational attainment, labor market outcomes, family formation, and other behaviors; (3) the effects of affirmative action and alternative college admissions policies on college entry; and (4) the effects of college financial aid on household savings. His other research focuses on: (1) the savings and labor supply responses to complex policy incentives; (2) the effects of altruism on the value of life for use in benefit-cost analysis; and (3) heterogeneity in citizen's preferred social discount rates for use in benefit-cost analysis. He has previously worked on the economics of nursing labor markets and manufacturing firms’ wage and productivity dynamics.
Long previously served on the faculty of George Washington University as an assistant professor of economics and public policy and administration from 2002-04.
He has publications in numerous journals including The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Public Administration Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Economics of Education Review. He was the winner of The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management's 2002 Ph.D. Dissertation Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Public Policy and Management, and is the Managing Editor and Co-Editor of Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Long holds a Ph.D. and MA in economics from the University of Michigan. He also holds an MPP from the University of Michigan, and a BA from DePauw University.
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