Research Interests
- Natural resource and environmental economics including land use, public land management, hedonic analysis, and economic education and team-based learning
Research Publications
- M. Espey (2022), “Variation in Individual Engagement in Team-Based Learning and Final Exam Scores," under review at the International Review of Economics Education
- M. Espey and E. Espey (2022). "Federal Land Acquisitions Under the Land and Water Conservation Fund," under review at the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research
- M. Espey and E. Espey (2022). "Wind Energy and Eagle Take Permits"
- M. Espey (2021), “Gender and Peer Evaluations”, Journal of Economic Education, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220485.2021.2004277.
- M. Espey (2018). "Diversity, Effort, and Cooperation in Team Based Learning" Journal of Economic Education, 49(1): 8-21.
- M. Espey (2018). "Enhancing Critical Thinking in Economics Using Team-Based Learning," Higher Education Research and Development, 37(1): 15-29.
- M. Espey and K. Boys (2015). "Alignment of Effort: Recruitment into Agricultural and Applied Economics", Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 47(3): 382-410.
- M. Espey (2011). "Team-Based Learning in Economics: A Pareto Improvement" in Team-Based Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities, edited by Michael Sweet and Larry K. Michaelsen, Stylus Publishing, Sterling, VA.
- M. Espey (2010), "Valuing Teams: What Influences Student Attitudes?" NACTA Journal, 54(1):31-40.
- M. Espey (2008), "Does Space Matter? Classroom Design and Team-Based Learning", Review of Agricultural Economics, 30(4):764-775.
