Research

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Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

Sanitation and property tax compliance: Analyzing the social contract in Brazil, with Mark Walker, Michael Carlos Best, François Gerard & Joana Naritomi, Journal of Development Economics, Vol 160, 2023

Featured as a research highlight in Nature Water volume 1, page 19 (2023)Additional coverage at VoxDev

Story of the hurricane: Government, NGOs, and the difference in disaster relief targeting, with Ben Fitch-Fleischmann, Journal of Development Economics, Vol 152, 2021

Additional coverage at VoxDev

Externalities and Spillovers from Sanitation and Waste Management in Urban and Rural Neighborhoods, with Molly Lipscomb & Laura Schechter, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Vol 42(3), 2020


The Buck Stops Where? Federalism, Uncertainty, and Investment in the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol 12(3), 2020

Featured as a research highlight at the American Economic Association

Political determinants of investment in water and sanitation: Evidence from Brazilian elections, with Rodrigo Schneider, Economics Letters, Vol 189, 2020


(Not so) gently down the stream: River pollution and health in Indonesia, with Teevrat Garg, Stuart Hamilton, Jacob Hochard & John Talbot, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol 92, 2018


Remote-Sensing Supports Economic Inference in Developing Countries, with Jacob Hochard,  GEOValue: The Socioeconomic Value of Geospatial Information, Ch 13,  2017


The effects of home-based HIV counseling and testing on HIV/AIDS stigma among individuals and community leaders in Western Kenya: Evidence from a cluster-randomized trial, with Corinne Low, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Winnie Rono, Angeli Kirk, Samson Ndege, Markus Goldstein & Harsha Thirumurthy, AIDS Care, Vol 25, 2013

Published under name "Evan Plous"

Production and use of biodegradable materials for incorporation in a non-toxic, eco-friendly battery, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, Vol 110, 2007

Published under name "Evan Plous"

Selected Working Papers & Works in Progress

Greener on the other side: Inequity and tax compliance, with Michael Carlos Best, Luigi Caloi, François Gerard, Joana Naritomi & Laura Zoratto


What we do in the shadows: How urban density facilitates information diffusion, with Qing Zhang & Clare Stevens


The devil's in the details: Discretion and overspecification in public procurement, with Hannah Kris


Polls and taxes: The political costs of tax increases, with Carlota Lorán Lopéz


Robbing Peter in spite of Paul? Compliance decisions across property and income taxes in Pakistan, with Sarmad Sadiq