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Melanie Long

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Melanie Long

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Associate Professor of Economics & Business Economics; Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies

mlong@wooster.edu

Phone: 330-263-2387

Office: Morgan 213

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Degrees

  • B.A., Westminster College (Salt Lake City, Utah) – Economics; Minors in Applied Mathematics and French
  • M.S., Colorado State University (Fort Collins, Colorado) – Economics
  • Ph.D., Colorado State University (Fort Collins, Colorado) – Economics; Fields in Political Economy and Development Economics
Areas of Interest

Professor Long is originally from Idaho and received her bachelor’s degree in economics from Westminster College, a liberal arts college in Salt Lake City, Utah. She completed her PhD in Economics at Colorado State University in Spring 2019. Her research is in the areas of household finance and gender and feminist economics. She explores the evidence for and causes of systematic inequality in household debt and in access to low-cost consumer credit by race, ethnicity, and gender. Her research also explores the implications of such inequality on households’ financial security, educational outcomes, and labor market choices. Professor Long has taught courses including the Economics of Gender, Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Economics, Applied Regression, and the History of Economic Thought.

Courses Taught
  • ECON 10100: Principles of Economics
  • ECON 11000: Quantitative Methods
  • ECON 20500: History and Philosophy of Economic Thought
  •  ECON 21000: Econometrics
  • ECON 24500: Economics of Gender
  • ECON 31500: Public Finance
  • ECON 39902: Economics of Inequality
  • FYSM 10100: Why do we Care (about Care)? (First–Year Seminar)
  • IDPT 19919: From Birth to Death (co–instructor)
  • IDPT 40507: Local Social Entrepreneurship Seminar (co–instructor)
Independent Study Advising
  • Sam Adjei–Sah’24, “Earnings in Another’s Land: An Exploration of the 2016 OPT Extension on
    Earning Outcomes for International Students in the United States”
  • Jaylin Hudson’24, “Unlocking the Potential of Entrepreneurship: The Impacts of Minority Depository Institutions on Disparities in Entrepreneurship Rates Between Black and White Entrepreneurs,”
  • Mitch Shelman’24, “Unraveling the Effects: Examining the Dodd–Frank Act’s Influence on the Quality of Mortgage Lending and Market Dynamics”
  • Rosa Spurgeon’24, “Perceptions in Advertising: An Examination of Body Diversity, Consumer Responses, and Preferences”
  • Vonne Slayden’24, “Bills, Bias, and Labor Market Outcomes: Examining U.S. Transgender Workers’ Economic Experiences During the 2020s Rise of Anti–Transgender Legislation”
  • Endrias Tesfaye’24, “Do Instances of Fan Racism in Games Impact the Representation and Earnings of Black Players Compared to Statistically Similar White Players in the Top European Soccer Leagues?”
  • Michelle Bryant’22, “Labor Market Discrimination, Expected Returns & Enrollment in Higher
    Education for African American Scholars: Evidence from the High School Longitudinal
    Study”
  • Madi Buckley’22, “Barriers to Entry: Do Students’ Perceptions of Economics Contribute to the Underrepresentation of Women and Gender Minorities in the Field?”
  • Shawn Ngwena’22, “An Analysis of the Effects of the Rapidly Growing Technology Industry on Income Inequality in the United States”
  • Eraj Sikandar’22, “The Effects of Diversity and
    Inclusion Policies on Business Performance”
Publications
  • Melanie G. Long. “Introduction: Gender, Feminist Pedagogy, and Economics Education.” Review of Political Economy (Symposium: “Bringing a gendered lens to the economics curriculum”). Forthcoming.
  • Melanie G. Long. “Feminist Economics,” “Financial Risk,” and “Corporate Debt,” In Encyclopedia of Post-Keynesian Economics, eds. Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar,
    January 2023.
  • McKenna, Kelly, Levi Altringer, Karen Gebhardt, and Melanie G. Long. “Promoting Meaningful Interaction and Community Development Through Discussion Board Activities in the Online Economics Classroom.” Journal of Educators Online 19.1 (January 2022).
  • Melanie G. Long. “The Relationship Between Debt Aversion and College Enrollment by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity: A Propensity Scoring Approach.” Studies in Higher Education 47.9 (2022): 1808-1826. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2021.1968367
  • Alexandra Bernasek and Melanie G. Long. “Graduating During the Great Recession: The Effects of Student Loan Debt on Early-Career Labor Market Outcomes and Graduate or Professional School Enrollment.” Journal of Economic Issues 55.4 (December 2021): 891-913. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2021.1982337
  • Melanie G. Long. “Informal Borrowers and Financial Exclusion: The Invisible Unbanked at the Intersections of Race and Gender.” The Review of Black Political Economy 47.4 (December 2020): 363-403. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0034644620938620
  • Melanie G. Long. “Pushed into the Red?: Female-Headed Households and the Pre-Crisis Credit Expansion,” Forum for Social Economics 47.2 (April 2018): 224-236.
  • Melanie G. Long. “Book Review,” Review of Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth, edited by Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato, Review of Keynesian Economics 5.4 (October 2017): 652-655.
  • Melanie G. Long. “Merchantry, Usury, Villainy: Capitalism’s Threat to Community and Spiritual Integrity in The Merchant of Venice,” Anthropoetics (Open Access) 17.2 (Spring 2012).
Presentations
Colorado State University (Fort Collins, October 2024), Invited Paper Presentation: “ThemEffects of U.S. Monetary Policy on Household Wealth”

 IARIW–Bank of Italy Conference on Central Banks, Financial Markets, and Inequality
(Naples, March 2023, Accepted), Paper Presentation: “Monetary Policy’s DistributionalImpacts”
ASE Sessions at the Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting (New York
City, February 2023), Paper Presentation: “Monetary Policy’s Distributional Impacts”
IAFFE Sessions at the ASSA Meetings (New Orleans, January 2023), Paper Presentation with
Madison Buckley and Zareen Thomas: “Barriers to Entry”
ASE Sessions at the ASSA Meetings (New Orleans, January 2023), Paper Presentation: “Monetary Policy’s Distributional
Impacts”
Northeast Ohio Economics Workshop (Cleveland, November 2022), Paper Presentation:
“Monetary Policy’s Distributional Impacts”
 Young Scholars Initiative Pre–Workshop Event,
“Monetary Policy and Wealth and Income Inequality” (Toronto, September 2022), Invited Presentation: “Is Monetary Policy Race– and Gender–Neutral?“
Review of Social Economy Workshop, “Financialization and the Social Economy” (Boston, April 2022), Invited PaperPresentation: “Postal Banking and US Cash Transfer Programs”
International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics Annual Conference (Online,
January 2022), Paper Presentation: “Postal Banking and US Cash Transfer Programs”
 The College of Wooster Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program Interdisciplinary Lecture (December 2021), Invited Panel Participant: “COVID–19 Vaccines: Biology, Policy, and Ethics”
Western Economic Association International (Online, March 2021), Panel Presenter & Chair.
Poznań Conference on Kalecki and Kaleckian Economics in the 21st Century (Online, September 2020), Session Chair.
Elgar Webinar Series on Central Banking and Monetary
Policy (Online, May 2020), “Central Banking, Monetary Policy, and Gender,” Discussant.

ASE Session at the ASSA Meetings (San Diego, January 2020), Paper Presentation: “Investing in the Future?”
NAEE Session at the ASSA Meetings (San Diego, January 2020), Paper Presentation in my Absence: “Promoting Meaningful Interaction… in the Online Economics Classroom.”
 
Awards
  • Five Colleges of Ohio Collaborative Grant, “Supporting DEI Projects in Economics,” with Brooke Krause and Zarrina Juraqulova, 2021 ($5,000)
  • College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award, Graduate Teaching Category (2019)
  • Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award, CSU Department of Economics, 2018
  • Ingrid H. Rima Scholarship, Association for Social Economics, 2018
  • Graduate Student Council Travel Award, Colorado State University, Summer 2018.
  • Graduate Research Assistantship Award, “Graduating During the Great Recession,” CSU
    Department of Economics, 2017.
  • Omicron Delta Epsilon Best Graduate Paper Award,