Mark Long
Professor, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance
University of Washington
Tel: 206-543-3787 Box: 353055
website
CSDE Research Areas:
- Demographic Measurements and Methods
- Health of People and Populations
- Migration and Settlement
In the News:
- Author Meets Critic: Charles Hirschman and Mark Long (1/4/2017)
- CSDE at PAA 2017 (4/18/2017)
- Jacob Vigdor and Mark Long Evaluate Whether Seattle’s Minimum Wage Works (7/13/2017)
- Mark Long and Robert Plotnick Reflect on the Latest Minimum-Wage Study (7/5/2017)
- Mark Long Talks Minimum Wage with Yakima Herald (10/31/2016)
- West Coast Poverty Center Seminar: Immediate Impacts of the City of Seattle Minimum Wage Ordinance (10/31/2016)
- Jennifer Otten, Jake Vigdor, and Mark Long Analyze Effects of Minimum Wage on Seattle Food Prices (9/26/2017)
- Mark Long Answers KUOW’s Question: “How much of ‘the 1 percent’ lives in Seattle?” (7/21/2018)
Mark Long’s research over the past decade has mostly been devoted to understanding the process by which student’s transition between high school and college, how public policies affect educational attainment, and the effects of education on adult outcomes. In the last decade he has published on these topics in the following journals: Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Econometrics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Public Administration Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Social Science Research, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. Recently, with funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Long has been working with colleagues Dylan Conger (George Washington University) and Patrice Iatarola to explain what motivates high schools to offer rigorous courses, what explains racial, poverty, and gender gaps in coursetaking, and what gaps in coursetaking mean for future educational attainment. Additionally, with funding from the Smith Richardson foundation, Long has been working on understanding why boys are less likely to attend college and less likely to graduate if they do attend.