Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Long, M.G., Gebhardt, K., & McKenna, K. “Success rate disparities between online and face-to-face economics courses: Understanding the impacts of student affiliation and course modality.” Online Learning (Forthcoming). 

McKenna, K., Altringer, L., Gebhardt, K., & Long, M. G. “Promoting Meaningful Interaction and Community Development Through Discussion Board Activities in the Online Economics Classroom.” Journal of Educators Online 19.1 (January 2022).

Bernasek, A. & Long, M.G. “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.

Long, M.G. “The relationship between debt aversion and college enrollment by gender, race, and ethnicity: A propensity scoring approach.” Studies in Higher Education. (August 2021).

Long, M.G. “The Relationship Between Informal Borrowing and Financial Exclusion: Locating the Invisible Unbanked at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class.” The Review of Black Political Economy 47.4 (December 2020): 363-403.

Long, M.G. “Pushed into the Red?: Female-Headed Households and the Pre-Crisis Credit Expansion,” Forum for Social Economics 47.2 (April 2018): 224-236.

Long, M.G. “Merchantry, Usury, Villainy: Capitalism’s Threat to Community and Spiritual Integrity in The Merchant of Venice,” Anthropoetics (Open Access) 17.2 (Spring 2012).


Other Academic and Media Contributions

“Introduction: Gender, Feminist Pedagogy, and Economics Education.” Review of Political Economy 35.3, Symposium: “Bringing a gendered lens to the economics curriculum” (June 2023): 587-592.

“Identity, Risk, and Financial Capitalism: A Post Keynesian Research Agenda on Racial and Gender Stratification in the U.S.” In Key Debates and Contemporary Perspectives in Post Keynesian Economics (eds. Therese Jefferson and John E. King). Edward Elgar. Revised and accepted.

“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.

"Who bears the costs of contractionary monetary policy?" Monetary Policy Institute Blog (August 17, 2022).

With Veronika Dolar and Marolon Williams. “Inflation, workforce participation and real wages: 3 key indicators for monitoring the economy in 2022.” The Conversation (January 3, 2022).

With Steven Pressman and Veronika Dolar. “What does the economy need now? 4 suggestions for Biden’s coronavirus relief bill.” The Conversation (January 22, 2021).

“COVID-19 exposes why the Postal Service needs to get back into the banking business.” The Conversation (July 8, 2020). Reproduced on FastCompany, Government Executive, and elsewhere.

Interviews for NPR’s Marketplace:

­­­­­­“When we look back, will this be a blur? Or a new beginning?” (May 6, 2020).

“Much of the economy has stopped. Rent and other payments haven’t.” (March 30, 2020).

­­­­­­   “What you should know about household debt” (Sept. 24, 2019).

“Democratic debate: Candidates discuss their plans to help families.” The Conversation (November 21, 2019).

“Feminism,” “Financial Risk,” and “Corporate Debt,” In Encyclopedia of Post-Keynesian Economics (Eds. Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi). Forthcoming.

Interview for Agencia EFE. “Diez años después de la crisis, finanzas de mujeres y minorías siguen mal” (May 16, 2018).

“2008 financial crisis still seems like only yesterday for single women,” The Conversation (April 19, 2018). Reproduced in Salon, Newsweek, The Denver Post, and elsewhere.

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 (Oct. 2017): 652-655.

Selected Presentations

2023: IARIW-Bank of Italy Conference on Central Banks, Financial Markets, and Inequality (Naples, March 2023, Accepted), Paper Presentation: “Monetary Policy’s Distributional Impacts” • 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” 

2022: 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 Paper Presentation: “Postal Banking” • International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics Annual Conference (Online, January 2022), Paper Presentation: “Postal Banking and US Cash Transfer Programs”

2021: The College of Wooster Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program Interdisciplinary Lecture, Invited Panel Participant: “COVID-19 Vaccines: Biology, Policy, and Ethics” • Western Economic Association International (Online, March 2021), Panel Presenter & Panel Chair.

2020: 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), “Central Banking, Monetary Policy, and Gender,” Discussant. • ASE Session at the ASSA Meetings (San Diego), Paper Presentation: “Investing in the Future?” • NAEE Session at the ASSA Meetings (San Diego), Paper Presentation in my Absence: “Promoting Meaningful Interaction… in the Online Economics Classroom.”

2019: URPE-IAFFE Sessions at the ASSA Meetings (Atlanta), Paper Presentation: “Graduating During the Great Recession.”

2018: URPE 50th Anniversary Conference (Amherst, MA), Paper Presentation: “The Role of Informal Borrowing in Financial Exclusion.” • IAFFE Annual Conference (New Paltz, NY), Paper Presentation: “Theorizing Women’s Position in U.S. Credit Markets.” • 16th World Congress for Social Economics (Fort Collins, CO), Paper Presentation “Gendered Patterns of Discouragement,” Discussant. • CSU Institute for Learning and Teaching Summer Conference (Fort Collins, CO), Paper Presentation, “Closing Achievement Gaps between Online and On-Campus Economics Courses.” • Learning Analytics and Knowledge 2018 Conference (Sydney), Poster Presentation in my Absence: “Identifying Trends in Student Success.” • Eastern Economic Association Conference (Boston), Paper Presentation: “Debt Aversion among U.S. High School Students,” Discussant. • ASE Session at the ASSA Meetings (Philadelphia), Paper Presentation: “Female-Headed Households and the Pre-crisis Credit Expansion.”