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William Evans

Evans, W. N. & Snyder, S. (Forthcoming), "The Impact of Income on Mortality: Evidence from the Social Security Notch", Review of Economics and Statistics, (NBER Working Paper #9197): [Link]

Viscusi, W.K. and Evans, W. (2006), "Behavioral Probabilities", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 32 (1): 5-15

Evans, W.N. and Kim, B. (2006), "Patient Outcomes When Hospitals Experience a Surge in Admissions", Journal of Health Economics, 25 (2): 365-388

Lien, D. S. & Evans, W. N. (2005), "Estimating the Impact of Large Cigarette Tax Hikes: The Case of Maternal Smoking and Infant Birth Weight", Journal of Human Resources, 40 (2): 373-392

Parente, S.T., Evans, W.N., Schoenman, J.A. and Finch, M.D. (2005), "Health Care Use and Expenditures of Medicare HMO Disenrollees", Health Care Financing Review, 26 (3): 31-43

Schoenman, J., Parente, S., Feldman, J., Shah, M., Evans, W.N., and Finch, M. (2005), "The Impact of HMO Withdrawals on Vulnerable Medicare Beneficiaries", Health Care Financing Review, 26 (3): 5-30

Evans, W. N. & Lien, D. S. (2005), "Does Prenatal Care Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from the PAT Bus Strike", Journal of Econometrics, 125 : 207-239 [Link]

Eibner, C. & Evans, W. N. (2005), "Relative Deprivation, Poor Health Habits and Mortality", Journal of Human Resources, 40 (3): 591-620 [Link]

Corcoran, S., Evans, W.N., and Schwab, R. (2004), "Changing Labor Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers, 1957-2000", American Economic Review, 94 (2): 23-235

Corcoran, S.P., Evans, W.N., Godwin, J., Murray, S.E., and Schwab, R. (2004), "The Changing Distribution of Education Finance: 1972-1997", in Social Inequality, Neckerman, K.M., 433-466

Eibner, C. and Evans, W. (2004), "The Income-Health Relationship and the Role of Relative Deprivation", in Social Inequality, Neckerman, K.M., 545-568

Evans, W.N., Hout, M., and Mayer, S. (2004), "Assessing the Effect of Economics Inequality", in Social Inequality, Neckerman, K.M., 933-968

Corcoran, S., Evans, W.N., and Schwab, R. (2004), "Women, the Labor Market, and the Declining Relative Quality of Teachers", Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23 (3): 449-470 [Link]

Dee, T. & Evans, W. N. (2003), "Teen Drinking and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Two-Sample Instrumental Variables (TSIV) Estimates", Journal of Labor Economics, 21 (1): 178-209 [Link]

Evans, W. N. & Zhang, P. (2002), "The Impact of Earmarked Lottery Profits on Education Spending", , : [Link]

Evans, W. N. & Topoleski, J. (2002), "The Social and Economic Impact of Native American Casinos", , (NBER Working Paper #9198): [Link]

Dee, T. & Evans, W. N. (2001), "Teens and Traffic Safety", in An Economic Analysis of Risky Behavior Among Youths, J. Gruber, 121-165

Evans, W. N. & Ringel, J. S. (2001), "Cigarette Taxes and Smoking During Pregnancy", American Journal of Public Health, 91 (11): 1851-1856 [Link]

Harris, A., Evans, W. N., & Schwab, R. M. (2001), "Education Spending in an Aging America", Journal of Public Economics, 81 : 449-472 [Link]

Dee, T. & Evans, W. N. (2001), "Behavioral Policies and Teen Traffic Safety", American Economic Review, 91 (2): 91-96 [Link]

Evans, W. N., Murray, S., & Schwab, R. (2001), "The Property Tax and Educational Finance: Uneasy Compromises", in Property Taxation and Local Government Finance: Essays in Honor of C. Lowell Harris, W. E. Oates, 209-235

Schwab, R., Evans, W., & Murray, S. (2001), "The Property Tax and Education Finance: Uneasy Compromises", in Taxing Simply Taxing Fairly, ,

Cooke, M. & Evans, W. N. (2000), "Families or Schools? Explaining the Convergence in White and Black Academic Performance", Journal of Labor Economics, 18 (4): 729-754 [Link (via JStor)]

Farrelly, M., Evans, W. N., & Sfekas, A. E. S. (1999), "The Impact of Workplace Smoking Bans: Results from a National Survey", Tobacco Control, : 272-277

Dee, T., Evans, W. N., & Murray, S. E. (1999), "Data Watch: Research Data in the Economics of Education", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 13 (3): 205-216 [Link (via JStor)]

Angrist, J. & Evans, W. N. (1999), "Schooling and Labor-Market Consequences of the 1970 State Abortion Reforms", in Research in Labor Economics, S. Polachek & J. Robst, 75-114

Schwab, R., Murray, S. E., & Evans, W. N. (1999), "The Impact of Court-Mandated School Finance Reform", in Equity and Adequacy Issues in Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives, H. F. Ladd, R. Chalk, & J. S. Hansen,

Evans, W. N., Farrelly, M., & Montgomery, E. (1999), "Do Workplace Smoking Bans Reduce Smoking?", American Economic Review, 89 (4): 728-747 [Link (via JStor)]

Evans, W. N., Ringel, J., & Stech, D. (1999), "Tobacco Taxes and Public Policy to Discourage Smoking", in Tax Policy and the Economy, J. Poterba, [Link]

Evans, W. N. & Ringel, J. (1999), "Can Higher Cigarette Taxes Improve Birth Outcomes?", Journal of Public Economics , 72 : 135-154 [Link]

Mohr, P. E., Franco, S. J., Blanchfield, B. B., Cheng, C. M., & Evans, W. N. (1999), "Vulnerability of Rural Hospitals to Medicare Outpatient Payment Reform", Health Care Financing Review, 21 (1): 1-18 [Link]

Murray, S. E., Evans, W. N., & Schwab, R. M. (1998), "Education-Finance Reform and the Distribution of Education Resources", American Economic Review, 88 (4): 789-812 [Link (via JStor)]

Angrist, J. & Evans, W. N. (1998), "Children and Their Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size", American Economic Review, 88 (3): 450-477 [Link (via JStor)]

Evans, W. N. & Farrelly, M. (1998), "The Compensating Behavior of Smokers: Taxes, Tar and Nicotine", RAND Journal of Economics, 29 (3): 578-595 [Link (via JStor)]

Parente, S. & Evans, W. N. (1998), "Effect of Low-Income Elderly Insurance Copayment Subsidies", Health Care Financing Review, 20 (2): 19-37 [Link]

Viscusi, W. K. & Evans, W. N. (1998), "Estimation of Revealed Probabilities and Utility Functions for Product Safety Decisions", Review of Economics and Statistics, 80 (1): 28-33 [Link (via JStor)]

Evans, W. N., Murray, S. E., & Schwab, R. (1997), "State Education Finance Policy after Court Mandated Reform: The Legacy of Serrano", Proceedings of the 89th Annual Conference on Taxation, : 366-371

Evans, W. N., Murray, S., & Schwab, R. (1997), "Toward Increased Centralization in Public School Finance", in Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations, R. Fisher, 139-172

Schoeneman, J., Evans, W. N., & Schur, C. (1997), "Primary Care Case Management for Medicaid Recipients: Evaluation of the Maryland Access to Care Program", Inquiry, 34 (2): 155-170

Evans, W. N., Murray, S., & Schwab, R. (1997), "Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses after Serrano", Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 16 (1): 10-31

Neuman, P., Bernardin, M., Evans, W. N., & Bayer, E. (1995), "Identifying Barriers to Access in the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program", HCFA Review, 17 (2): 169

Evans, W. N. & Schwab, R. (1995), "Finishing High School and Starting College: Do Catholic Schools Make a Difference?", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110 (4): 941-974 [Link (via JStor)]

Evans, W. N. & Kessides, I. (1995), "Living by the "Golden Rule": Multi-Market Conduct in the U.S. Airline Industry", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 109 (2): 341-366 [Link (via JStor)]

Neumann, P. J., Bernardin, M. D., & Evans, W. N. (1995), "Participation in the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program", Health Care Financing Review, 17 : 169-178

Evans, W. N., Froeb, L. M., & Werden, G. J. (1993), "Endogeneity in the Concentration-Price Relationship: Causes, Consequences, and Cures", Journal of Industrial Economics, 41 (4): 431-437 [Link (via JStor)]

Evans, W. N. & Viscusi, W. K. (1993), "Income Effects and the Value of Health", Journal of Human Resources, 28 (3): 497-518 [Link (via JStor)]

Evans, W. N. & Kessides, I. (1993), "Localized Market Power in the U.S. Airline Industry", Review of Economics and Statistics, 75 (1): 66-75 [Link (via JStor)]

Evans, W. N., Graham, J. D., & Neville, D. (1993), "Toward Humility in Statistical Interpretation: Response to Zador and Lund", Risk Analysis, 13 (1): 21-22

Evans, W. N. & Kessides, I. (1993), "Structure, Conduct and Performance in the Deregulated Airline Industry", Southern Economic Journal, 59 (3): 450-467 [Link]

Cropper, M., Evans, W. N., Berardi, S., & Soares, M. (1992), "Pesticide Regulation and the Rule-Making Process", Northeast Journal of Agriculture and Resource Economics, : 77-82

Evans, W. N., Oates, W., & Schwab, R. (1992), "Measuring Peer Group Effects: A Study of Teenage Behavior", Journal of Political Economy, 100 (5): 966-991 [Link (via JStor)]

Cropper, M. L., W. N. Evans, S. J. Berardi, M. M. Ducla-Soares, and P. R. Portney (1992), "The Determinants of Pesticide Regulation: A Statistical Analysis of EPA Decision Making", Journal of Political Economy, 100 (1): 175-197 [Link (via JStor)]

Cropper, M., Evans, W. N., Berardi, S., Soares, M., & Portney, P. (1992), "An Analysis of EPA Regulation of Food-Use Pesticides", in The Political Economy of Environmental Protection, R. D. Congleton, 123-144

Evans, W. N. & Viscusi, W. K. (1991), "Estimation of State-Dependent Utility Functions with Survey Data", Review of Economics and Statistics, 73 (1): 94-104 [Link (via JStor)]

Evans, W. N. and J. D. Graham (1991), "Risk Reduction or Risk Compensation? The Case of Mandatory Safety Belt Use Laws", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 4 (1): 61-73

Evans, W. N. & Viscusi, W. K. (1991), "Utility-Based Measures of Health", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73 (5): 1422-1427 [Link]

Evans, W. N., Neville, D., & Graham, J. D. (1991), "General Deterrence of Drunk Driving: Evaluation of Recent American Policies", Risk Analysis, 11 (2): 279-289 [Link]

Evans, W. N. & Graham, J. D. (1990), "An Estimate of the Lifesaving Benefit of Child Restraint Use Legislation", Journal of Health Economics, 9 (2): 121-142

Viscusi, W. K. & Evans, W. N. (1990), "Utility Functions that Depend on Health Status: Estimates and Economic Implications", American Economic Review, 80 (3): 353-374 [Link (via JStor)]

Grabowski, H., Viscusi, W. K., & Evans, W. N. (1989), "Price and Availability Tradeoffs of Automobile Insurance Regulation", The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 61 (2): 275-299 [Link (via JStor)]

Mark, T., Evans, W. N., Schur, C., & Guterman, S. (1988), "Hospital-Physician Arrangements and Hospital Financial Performance", Medical Care, 36 (1): 67-78

Luger, M. I. & Evans, W. N. (1988), "Regional Differences in Production Technologies", Regional Science and Urban Economics, 18 (3): 399-424

Evans, W. N. & Graham, J. D. (1988), "Traffic Safety and the Business Cycle", Alcohol, Drugs, and Driving, 4 (1): 31-38

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