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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; labour market preferences, values and participation; and is undertaking major programs of research on the ideology of income inequality and on bio-ethics (both with Jonathan Kelley), based on their Australian and international surveys.
She has published widely in academic journals in Australia (Australian Economic Review; Australian Social Monitor; Journal of Sociology; Journal of the Australian Population Association; People and Place); Britain (Sociology; British Journal of Sociology); Europe (European Sociological Review; Social Indicators Research; International Journal of Public Opinion Research); and the USA (American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological Review; Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy; Gender Issues; International Migration Review; Stem Cell Research and Development; Population and Development Review; Research in Social Stratification and Mobility).
In 2003 Evans and Jonathan Kelley won the World Association for Public Opinion Research’s Worcester Prize for the research presented in Chapter 19 of their new book, Australian Economy and Society 2002.
Australian Economy and Society 2002: Religion, Morality, and Public Policy in International Perspective, 1984-2002 MDR Evans and Jonathan Kelley. Sydney: Federation Press, 2004. Pps xii + 375. (Hardback/ ISBN 1862874514). Table of contents. Introduction (160k PDF)
Australian
Economy and Society 2001: Education, Work and Welfare. MDR Evans and
Jonathan Kelley
Sydney:
Federation Press, 2002. Pps vi + 330. (Hardback/ ISBN 1862873887).
Table of contents.
“National Pride: Survey Data from the USA and 23 Other Nations” M.D.R. Evans and Jonathan Kelley. 2002. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 14(3): 303-338. Abstract This paper won The World Association for Public Opinion Research's Worcester Prize for 2003.
"Class and Class Conflict in Six Western Nations". Jonathan Kelley and M.D.R. Evans. 1995. American Sociological Review, 60 (April): 157-178.
"The Legitimation of Inequality: Norms on Occupational Earnings in Nine Nations". Jonathan Kelley and M.D.R. Evans. 1993. American Journal of Sociology, 99: 75-125.
"Images of Class: A Comparative Analysis of Public Perceptions in Hungary and Australia". M.D.R. Evans,, Jonathan Kelley and Tamas Kolosi. 1992. American Sociological Review, 57 (1992): 461-482.
"Prejudice, Discrimination and the Labor Market: Attainments of Immigrants in Australia". M.D.R. Evans and Jonathan Kelley. 1991. American Journal of Sociology, 97: 721-759.
"Immigrant entrepreneurship: Effects of Ethnic Market Size and Linguistically Isolated Labor Pools". M.D.R. Evans. 1989 American Sociological Review 54: 950-962.