Articles in Refereed Journals
“Teaching econometrics with data on coworker salaries and job satisfaction,” International Review of Economics Education 34 (2020).
“Student preconceptions and reality: A survey exercise to teach wealth inequality,” with William Barnes and Ross Leupp Hanig. International Review of Economics Education, (2018).
“Testing Estimates of Housing Cost Differences among US Metropolitan Areas,” Urban Studies Research, Vol 2015 (2015), pp. 1-13
“Optimal Housing Cost Estimates for 177 U.S. Metropolitan Areas,” Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 52.3 (2012), pp. 469-485.
“Metropolitan Wage Levels of Less-Educated Workers: 1986 to 1999,” Industrial Relations, Vol. 45.2 (2006), pp. 119-146.
“Immigration and Native’s Wages: Understanding Their Correlation in the 1980’s,” The Review of Regional Studies, Vol. 31.3 (2001), pp. 219-235.
“Should Black Women and Men Live in the Same Place? An Intermetropolitan Assessment of Relative Labor Market Success,” with Mary C. King, The Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 27.3 (2000), pp. 9-34.
“Differences in Wage Levels Among Metropolitan Areas: Less-educated Workers in the United States,” with Mary C. King, Regional Studies, Vol. 34.1 (2000), pp. 21-27.
“Government Borrowing, Interest Rates, and the Crowding Out Effect in an Open Economy,” with Bahram Adrangi, Studies in Economic Analysis, Vol. 15.1 (1993), pp. 3-28.
“Enrollment Changes and School Finance,” Journal of Education Finance, Vol. 19.1 (1993), pp. 69-75.
“Government Borrowing, Interest Rates, and Crowding Out in an Open Economy,” with Bahram Adrangi, Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 20.1 (1992), p. 105.
“Bargaining and the Determinants of Teacher Salaries,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 41, No. 2 (1988), pp. 263‑278.
Book Reviews
The New Rural Poverty, by Philip Martin, Michael Fix, and J. Edward Taylor, in the Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 47:2 (2007)
Rising Wage Inequality: the 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets, Thomas Hyclak, in Education Economics, Vol. 11:3 (2003)
Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality, Dale Ballou and Michael Podgursky, in Education Economics, Vol. 7:1 (1999)
Who Pays for Student Diversity: Population Changes and Educational Policy, J.A. Ward and P. Anthony (editors), in Education Economics, Vol. 2:2 (1994)
Books
Mark Maier with Todd Easton, The Data Game, 3rd edition (1999) Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
Other Publications
“Expectations for Student Writing,” the writing handbook for the Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. School of Business Administration, August 2012
“Online Excel Tutorials for BUS 500,” with Khiem Nguyen and Brett Helbling, September 2011. (A website containing 14 flash animations illustrating how to use Excel to analyze data.)
“Monetary Policy, Interest Rates, and Aggregate Expenditure,” 2011
“No Option for the Poor: Notes on a Mature Economy,” Portland (the University of Portland magazine), Vol. 21.2 (2002), p. 37
“Effective In-Class Review of Exams,” Writing U.P. (newsletter of the Integrated Writing Program, University of Portland), Spring 1994.