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.