Steven Myers

Title: Associate Professor
Department: Economics
Office: CAS 445
Phone: 330-972-7421
Fax: 330-972-5356
Email: myers@uakron.edu
Website: http://gozips.uakron.edu/~myers/online

Research Accomplishments

Fields: Econometrics, Labor Economics, Public Finance

Publications

• "Assessment of the Undergraduate Economics Major: A National Survey," (with Mike Nelson and Richard Stratton), forthcoming Journal of Economic Education.
• "E-Portfolios and Student Research in the Assessment of a Proficiency-based Major," (with Mike Nelson and Richard Stratton), Designing Effective Assessment: Principles and Profiles of Good Practice, Trudy Banta, Karen Black, and Elizabeth Jones (eds.),San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2009.
• "Assessing an Economics Program: Hansen Proficiencies, E-Portfolio and Undergraduate Research" (with Mike Nelson and Richard Stratton), International Review of Economics Education, Vol. 8, No. 1. June 2009.
• "Faculty Behavior, Grades, and Student Evaluations" (with Randall King and Richard Stratton). Journal of Economic Education 25 (Winter 1994): 5-15.
• "The Demand for Abortion by Unmarried Teenagers" (with Dennis Byrne and Randall King). American Journal of Economics and Sociology 51(April 1992): 223-35.
• "Short Term Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Pregnancy" (with Dennis Byrne and Randall King). Applied Economics 23 (December 1991): 1819-27.

Education

Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1980