M.D.R. Evans

M.D.R. Evans is Senior Research Fellow in the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. She is a graduate of Reed College (BA) and the University of Chicago (PhD) and has been a visiting scholar at Brown University, Stanford University, and the University of Michigan. She is currently studying the causes, consequences, and policy implications of entrepreneurship; migration; and labour market preferences, values, and participation. She is also undertaking major research programs on the ideology of income inequality and on bio-ethics (both with Jonathan Kelley), based on their Australian and international surveys.

She has also published widely in academic journals in Australia, Britain, Europe, and the USA. In 2003, she and Kelley won the World Association for Public Opinion Research’s Worcester Prize.