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		Richard W. Evans Assistant Professor Brigham Young University Department of Economics office:  167 FOB phone: (801) 422-8303 e-mail: revans@byu.edu

Research
Publications: "The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births," (forthcoming) joint with Yingyao Hu and Zhong Zhao, Journal of Population Economics. "Three Essays on Openness, International Pricing and Optimal Monetary Policy" (May 2008) University of Texas at Austin, Dissertation.
Working Papers: "Is Openness Inflationary? Imperfect Competition and Monetary Market Power," (October 2007) GMPI Working Paper #1, Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. "The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births," (August 2007) joint with Yingyao Hu and Zhong Zhao, IZA: The Institute for the Study of Labor, IZA Discussion Paper #2975. "Integration of the Surgeon's Certificates with the Pension Application Groupings in the Union Army Dataset," (August 2003) Center for Population Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, CPE Working Paper Series.
Works in Progress: "State-dependent Optimal Monetary Policy," (June 2009) joint with Ian Fillmore and Jeffrey Humpherys. "OLG Life Cycle Models: New Solution Methods and Applications," (May 2009) joint with Kerk L. Phillips. "Is Openness Inflationary? Imperfect Competition and Monetary Market Power," (February 2009) submitted. [Technical Appendix] "Expectations, Open Economies, and Time-consistent Monetary Policy," (April 2008). "Openness, Inflation, and Imperfect Competition: Theory and Evidence," (February 2008).
Unpublished Papers: "Human Capital, Unemployment Duration, and Individual Heterogeneity," (January 2007) joint with Thomas Koch. "Biases in the Disability Insurance Application Process: A Mechanism Design Approach," (January 2007). "Mind the Gap or Focus on Inflation: The Case for Both in Optimal Monetary Policy," (June 2005).
Papers Worked on As Research Assistant: "Time Zones as Cues for Coordination: Lattitude, Longitude, and Letterman," (April 2008) Daniel S. Hamermesh, Caitlin Knowles Myers, and Mark Pocock, Journal of Labor Economics, 26:2, pp. 223-246. "Direct Estimates of Household Production," (January 2008) Daniel S. Hamermesh, Economics Letters, 98:1, pp. 31-34. "The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and USA," (2008) Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Phillippe Weil, in Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA: Are Europeans Lazy? Or Americans Crazy? eds. Tito Boeri, Michael C. Burda, and Francis Kramarz. Oxford University Press, pp. 12-91. "Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality," (November 2007) Daniel S. Hamermesh, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89:4, pp. 852-863. "The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work," (May 2007) Daniels S. Hamermesh and Stephen Donald, National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #13127. "Total Work, Gender and Social Norms," (March 2007) Michael Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and Phillippe Weil, National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper #13000. "Output Gap Uncertainty and Monetary Policy in the 1970s," (February 2004) David E. Spencer, Topics in Macroeconomics, vol. 4, no. 1, article 2. "Understanding the Stock Option Debate," (July 9, 2002) Donald B. Marron, Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, Economic Policy Research, report 107-04.