Mark C Long
Biographic Data
| ID | 256560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark C Long |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark C |
| FAMILY NAME | Long |
| SIGNATURE | LONG M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5500-9967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Constructing monthly residential locations of adults using merged state administrative data
In any month, administrative data collected by government agencies contain a fraction of the polity's adults, namely those who have interacted with government agencies in that month. For researchers and policymakers who want to evaluate questions that require a spatial location of the whole population of adults at a given time (e.g. job-residence spatial mismatch, impacts of local policies), these fragmentary records are insufficient. Combining a…
Altruism and the Statistical Value of Human Life for Policy and Regulation
The Impact of a City-Level Minimum Wage Policy on Supermarket Food Prices by Food Quality Metrics
Objective : To examine the effects of increasing minimum wage on supermarket food prices in Seattle over 2 years of policy implementation, overall and differentially across food quality metrics. Methods: Prices for the UW Center for Public Health Nutrition (CPHN) market basket of 106 foods were obtained for 6 large supermarket chain stores in Seattle ("intervention") and for the same chain stores in King County ("control") at four time points: 1-…
Life on the Frontier of AP Expansion
The Advanced Placement (AP) program has undergone two major reforms in recent decades: the first aimed at increasing access and the second at increasing relevance. Both initiatives are partially designed to increase the number of high school students from low-income backgrounds who have access to college-level coursework. Yet critics argue that schools in less-resourced communities are unable to implement AP at the level expected by its founders.…
Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance did not affect supermarket food prices by food processing category
Objective To examine the impacts of Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance on food prices by food processing category. Design Supermarket food prices were collected for 106 items using a University of Washington Center for Public Health Nutrition market basket at affected and unaffected supermarket chain stores at three times: March 2015 (1-month pre-policy enactment), May 2015 (1-month post-policy enactment) and May 2016 (1-year post-policy enactment)…
The Impact of a City-Level Minimum-Wage Policy on Supermarket Food Prices in Seattle-King County
Background : Many states and localities throughout the U.S. have adopted higher minimum wages. Higher labor costs among low-wage food system workers could result in higher food prices. Methods : Using a market basket of 106 foods, food prices were collected at affected chain supermarket stores in Seattle and same-chain unaffected stores in King County (n = 12 total, six per location). Prices were collected at 1 month pre- (March 2015) and 1-month…
Is There a “Workable” Race-Neutral Alternative to Affirmative Action in College Admissions
The 2013 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin case clarified when and how it is legally permissible for universities to use an applicant's race or ethnicity in its admissions decisions. The court concluded that such use is permissible when "no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity." This paper shows that replacing traditional affirmative action with a sy…
Gender Sorting across K–12 Schools in the United States
This article documents evidence of nonrandom gender sorting across K–12 schools in the United States. The sorting exists among coed schools and at all grade levels, and it is highest in the secondary school grades. We observe some gender sorting across school sectors and types: for instance, males are slightly underrepresented in private schools and charter schools and are substantially overrepresented in irregular public schools, a large share o…
Gender Gaps in College Enrollment
This article uses Florida administrative data to evaluate the role that public high schools play in the growing female advantage in college enrollment. We first show evidence of gender sorting across public high schools that is beyond what one would observe if students were randomly assigned to their schools. Using regression and decomposition techniques, we then find that across-school gender sorting explains 12% and 16% of females’ higher rates…
A Thousand Mornings
Mary Oliver’s most recent book of poems traces rainbows in waterfalls, the ebb and flow of tides, stump rot, and black snakes; “the disasters, the unbelievable / yet approved decisions” in the daily news; and the presence of God, everywhere (63). The thirty-six poems include a seven-part sequence, as well as an adaptation of the well-known section of Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno entitled “For I Will Consider My Dog Percy.” Early in A Thousan…
Effects of High School Course-Taking on Secondary and Postsecondary Success
Using panel data from a census of public school students in the state of Florida, the authors examine the associations between students’ high school course-taking in various subjects and their 10th-grade test scores, high school graduation, entry into postsecondary institutions, and postsecondary performance. The authors use propensity score matching (based on 8th-grade test scores, other student characteristics, and school effects) within groups…
Beyond Admissions
Policy Transparency and College Enrollment
By guaranteeing college admission to all students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class, Texas H.B. 588 replaced an opaque de facto practice of admitting nearly all top 10 percent graduates with a transparent de jure policy that required public institutions to admit all applicants eligible for the guarantee. The new admission regime sent a clear message to students attending high schools that previously sent few students t…
Why Are Men Falling Behind? Gender Gaps in College Performance and Persistence
This article examines the male disadvantage in grade point average, credits earned, and persistence in college. Using data on enrollees in Florida and Texas four-year colleges to decompose gender differentials in the first semester, changes in the differentials between semesters, and persistence through college, we find that males earn lower GPAs and credits in their first semester of college largely because they arrive with lower high school gra…
Changes in Texas universities' applicant pools after the Hopwood decision
Explaining race, poverty, and gender disparities in advanced course‐taking
We use panel data on Florida high school students to examine race, poverty, and gender disparities in advanced course‐taking. While white students are more likely to take advanced courses than black and Hispanic students, these disparities are eliminated when we condition on observable pre–high school characteristics. In fact, black and Hispanic students are more likely than observably similar white students to take advanced courses. Controlling …
College quality and early adult outcomes
Affirmative Action and Its Alternatives in Public Universities
University administrators have made difficult choices in response to the changing policy context for the use of affirmative action in admissions. This paper synthesizes the empirical literature on affirmative action and evaluates the efficacy of alternative strategies, including top‐percent programs, class‐based affirmative action, and targeted recruiting. The analyses offer several findings of interest to officials who direct such programs: (1) …
Race and College Admissions
During the late 1990s, several states eliminated affirmative action admissions policies at their public colleges. Some of these states substituted a program that grants admission to the top x% of each high school's graduating class. These new programs were instituted in efforts to restore minority college enrollments to their prior levels. This paper finds that the preferences given to minority applicants under affirmative action are large and th…
Effects of High School Course-Taking on Secondary and Postsecondary Success
Using panel data from a census of public school students in the state of Florida, the authors examine the associations between students’ high school course-taking in various subjects and their 10th-grade test scores, high school graduation, entry into postsecondary institutions, and postsecondary performance. The authors use propensity score matching (based on 8th-grade test scores, other student characteristics, and school effects) within groups…
Explaining race, poverty, and gender disparities in advanced course‐taking
We use panel data on Florida high school students to examine race, poverty, and gender disparities in advanced course‐taking. While white students are more likely to take advanced courses than black and Hispanic students, these disparities are eliminated when we condition on observable pre–high school characteristics. In fact, black and Hispanic students are more likely than observably similar white students to take advanced courses. Controlling …
Policy Transparency and College Enrollment
By guaranteeing college admission to all students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class, Texas H.B. 588 replaced an opaque de facto practice of admitting nearly all top 10 percent graduates with a transparent de jure policy that required public institutions to admit all applicants eligible for the guarantee. The new admission regime sent a clear message to students attending high schools that previously sent few students t…
Why Are Men Falling Behind? Gender Gaps in College Performance and Persistence
This article examines the male disadvantage in grade point average, credits earned, and persistence in college. Using data on enrollees in Florida and Texas four-year colleges to decompose gender differentials in the first semester, changes in the differentials between semesters, and persistence through college, we find that males earn lower GPAs and credits in their first semester of college largely because they arrive with lower high school gra…
Gender Gaps in College Enrollment
This article uses Florida administrative data to evaluate the role that public high schools play in the growing female advantage in college enrollment. We first show evidence of gender sorting across public high schools that is beyond what one would observe if students were randomly assigned to their schools. Using regression and decomposition techniques, we then find that across-school gender sorting explains 12% and 16% of females’ higher rates…
Changes in Texas universities' applicant pools after the Hopwood decision
Gender Sorting across K–12 Schools in the United States
This article documents evidence of nonrandom gender sorting across K–12 schools in the United States. The sorting exists among coed schools and at all grade levels, and it is highest in the secondary school grades. We observe some gender sorting across school sectors and types: for instance, males are slightly underrepresented in private schools and charter schools and are substantially overrepresented in irregular public schools, a large share o…
Is There a “Workable” Race-Neutral Alternative to Affirmative Action in College Admissions
The 2013 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin case clarified when and how it is legally permissible for universities to use an applicant's race or ethnicity in its admissions decisions. The court concluded that such use is permissible when "no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity." This paper shows that replacing traditional affirmative action with a sy…
Altruism and the Statistical Value of Human Life for Policy and Regulation
A Thousand Mornings
Mary Oliver’s most recent book of poems traces rainbows in waterfalls, the ebb and flow of tides, stump rot, and black snakes; “the disasters, the unbelievable / yet approved decisions” in the daily news; and the presence of God, everywhere (63). The thirty-six poems include a seven-part sequence, as well as an adaptation of the well-known section of Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno entitled “For I Will Consider My Dog Percy.” Early in A Thousan…
Race and College Admissions
During the late 1990s, several states eliminated affirmative action admissions policies at their public colleges. Some of these states substituted a program that grants admission to the top x% of each high school's graduating class. These new programs were instituted in efforts to restore minority college enrollments to their prior levels. This paper finds that the preferences given to minority applicants under affirmative action are large and th…
Affirmative Action and Its Alternatives in Public Universities
University administrators have made difficult choices in response to the changing policy context for the use of affirmative action in admissions. This paper synthesizes the empirical literature on affirmative action and evaluates the efficacy of alternative strategies, including top‐percent programs, class‐based affirmative action, and targeted recruiting. The analyses offer several findings of interest to officials who direct such programs: (1) …
College quality and early adult outcomes
Explaining race, poverty, and gender disparities in advanced course‐taking
We use panel data on Florida high school students to examine race, poverty, and gender disparities in advanced course‐taking. While white students are more likely to take advanced courses than black and Hispanic students, these disparities are eliminated when we condition on observable pre–high school characteristics. In fact, black and Hispanic students are more likely than observably similar white students to take advanced courses. Controlling …
Beyond Admissions
Policy Transparency and College Enrollment
By guaranteeing college admission to all students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class, Texas H.B. 588 replaced an opaque de facto practice of admitting nearly all top 10 percent graduates with a transparent de jure policy that required public institutions to admit all applicants eligible for the guarantee. The new admission regime sent a clear message to students attending high schools that previously sent few students t…
Why Are Men Falling Behind? Gender Gaps in College Performance and Persistence
This article examines the male disadvantage in grade point average, credits earned, and persistence in college. Using data on enrollees in Florida and Texas four-year colleges to decompose gender differentials in the first semester, changes in the differentials between semesters, and persistence through college, we find that males earn lower GPAs and credits in their first semester of college largely because they arrive with lower high school gra…
Changes in Texas universities' applicant pools after the Hopwood decision
Effects of High School Course-Taking on Secondary and Postsecondary Success
Using panel data from a census of public school students in the state of Florida, the authors examine the associations between students’ high school course-taking in various subjects and their 10th-grade test scores, high school graduation, entry into postsecondary institutions, and postsecondary performance. The authors use propensity score matching (based on 8th-grade test scores, other student characteristics, and school effects) within groups…
Gender Sorting across K–12 Schools in the United States
This article documents evidence of nonrandom gender sorting across K–12 schools in the United States. The sorting exists among coed schools and at all grade levels, and it is highest in the secondary school grades. We observe some gender sorting across school sectors and types: for instance, males are slightly underrepresented in private schools and charter schools and are substantially overrepresented in irregular public schools, a large share o…
Gender Gaps in College Enrollment
This article uses Florida administrative data to evaluate the role that public high schools play in the growing female advantage in college enrollment. We first show evidence of gender sorting across public high schools that is beyond what one would observe if students were randomly assigned to their schools. Using regression and decomposition techniques, we then find that across-school gender sorting explains 12% and 16% of females’ higher rates…
A Thousand Mornings
Mary Oliver’s most recent book of poems traces rainbows in waterfalls, the ebb and flow of tides, stump rot, and black snakes; “the disasters, the unbelievable / yet approved decisions” in the daily news; and the presence of God, everywhere (63). The thirty-six poems include a seven-part sequence, as well as an adaptation of the well-known section of Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno entitled “For I Will Consider My Dog Percy.” Early in A Thousan…
Is There a “Workable” Race-Neutral Alternative to Affirmative Action in College Admissions
The 2013 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin case clarified when and how it is legally permissible for universities to use an applicant's race or ethnicity in its admissions decisions. The court concluded that such use is permissible when "no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity." This paper shows that replacing traditional affirmative action with a sy…
The Impact of a City-Level Minimum-Wage Policy on Supermarket Food Prices in Seattle-King County
Background : Many states and localities throughout the U.S. have adopted higher minimum wages. Higher labor costs among low-wage food system workers could result in higher food prices. Methods : Using a market basket of 106 foods, food prices were collected at affected chain supermarket stores in Seattle and same-chain unaffected stores in King County (n = 12 total, six per location). Prices were collected at 1 month pre- (March 2015) and 1-month…
Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance did not affect supermarket food prices by food processing category
Objective To examine the impacts of Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance on food prices by food processing category. Design Supermarket food prices were collected for 106 items using a University of Washington Center for Public Health Nutrition market basket at affected and unaffected supermarket chain stores at three times: March 2015 (1-month pre-policy enactment), May 2015 (1-month post-policy enactment) and May 2016 (1-year post-policy enactment)…
The Impact of a City-Level Minimum Wage Policy on Supermarket Food Prices by Food Quality Metrics
Objective : To examine the effects of increasing minimum wage on supermarket food prices in Seattle over 2 years of policy implementation, overall and differentially across food quality metrics. Methods: Prices for the UW Center for Public Health Nutrition (CPHN) market basket of 106 foods were obtained for 6 large supermarket chain stores in Seattle ("intervention") and for the same chain stores in King County ("control") at four time points: 1-…
Life on the Frontier of AP Expansion
The Advanced Placement (AP) program has undergone two major reforms in recent decades: the first aimed at increasing access and the second at increasing relevance. Both initiatives are partially designed to increase the number of high school students from low-income backgrounds who have access to college-level coursework. Yet critics argue that schools in less-resourced communities are unable to implement AP at the level expected by its founders.…
Altruism and the Statistical Value of Human Life for Policy and Regulation
Constructing monthly residential locations of adults using merged state administrative data
In any month, administrative data collected by government agencies contain a fraction of the polity's adults, namely those who have interacted with government agencies in that month. For researchers and policymakers who want to evaluate questions that require a spatial location of the whole population of adults at a given time (e.g. job-residence spatial mismatch, impacts of local policies), these fragmentary records are insufficient. Combining a…
Political science (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (11 works) · School Choice and Performance (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)