Evan Kresch

Associate Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented his paper “Greener on the Other Side: Inequity and Tax Compliance” in the Economics department seminar at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago.

Evan Kresch presented his paper "What We Do in the Shadows: How Urban Density Facilitates Information Diffusion" in the NOVAFRICA seminar series at the Nova SBE in Lisbon, Portugal.

Associate Professor of Economics Evan Kresch publishes an article for VoxDev titled "Targeting relief aid after natural disasters: Should donors work through governments or NGOs?".

Assistant Professor Evan Kresch presented (virtually) in the Egg-timer Session at the 6th Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries on December 14, 2021.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented "Do Bigger Legislatures Lead to Bigger Government? Evidence from a Brazilian Municipal Council Reform" on November 19, 2021 at the 114th Annual Conference on Taxation, "Improving the U.S. Safety Net," sponsored by the National Tax Association (NTA). The paper was co-authored by Rodrigo Schneider (Skidmore College); Henrique Veras (Centre College); and Mark M. Walker '22 (Oberlin College).

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented, “Sanitation and Property Tax Compliance: Analyzing the Social Contract in Brazil,” at the ABDI-IFS Conference on October 28, 2021.

"Story of the Hurricane: Government, NGOs, and the Differences in Post-Disaster Relief," was presented virtually by Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch at Skidmore College in New York on April 22, 2021.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch's work was recently highlighted in an interview by the American Economic Association. 

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch's paper "The Buck Stops Where? Federalism, Uncertainty, and Investment in the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector" was published recently in the American Economic Journal.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented a paper, "Another Seat at the Table: Municipal Council Size and Local Taxes in Brazil," on July 23 at the Virtual LAC Development Seminar .

Professor Kresch also presented "The Story of a Hurricane: Local Government, NGOs, and Post-Disaster Assistance" on July 28 at the 2020 Bolivian Conference on Development Economics.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch published "Political Determinates of Investment in Water and Sanitation: Evidence from Brazilian Elections" in the Journal of Economics Letters. 

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented, "Political Determinants of Public Service Investments: Evidence from Brazilian Elections" at the Sustainability & Development Conference, Oct. 11, 2019, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
 

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch's paper, "The Buck Stops Where? Federalism, Uncertainty, and Investment in the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector" has been accepted for publication in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented, "Greener on the Other Side? Spatial Discontinuities in Property Tax Rates and Their Effects on Tax Morale" October 3, 2019 at the Macalester College Economics Department Research Seminar Series.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch was invited to present, "Greener on the Other Side? Property Tax Collection and Horizontal Inequality" at the Spring 2019 Economic Development Seminar at Michigan State University, April 24, 2019.
 

Economics faculty participated in the 15th International Conference of the WEAI at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, March 21-24, 2019. Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca and Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch chaired, presented, and discussed papers.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented his paper at the ninth annual Bolivian Conference on Development Economics November 29 through 30, 2018.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented a paper "Greener on the Other Side? Spatial Discontinuities in Property Tax Rates and their Effects on Tax Morale" at the University of Pittsburgh.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented a paper on November 3, 2018, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. 

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented a paper at the annual Liberal Arts Colleges Development Economics conference.

Evan Kresch, assistant professor of economics, presented on development economics at the June 2018 World Bank's Annual Bank Conference.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented research and served as a discussant on December 18-19, 2017, at the Second Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries at the University of Zurich’s Center for Economic Development. View the full conference program.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch presented the paper, “Greener on the Other Side? Spatial Discontinuities in Property Tax Rates and Their Effects on Tax Morale” on November 8-10, 2017 at the National Tax Conference. Kresch also served as a discussant at the conference.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch was a discussant at the Liberal Arts Colleges Development Economics Conference that took place September 8-9, 2017. 

Assistant Professor Evan Kresch both presented a paper "(Not So) Gently Down The Stream: River Pollution and Health in Indonesia" and was a discussant at the Midwest International Economic Development Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.