Media Appearances and Citations
This page contains a list of Richard Evans' media appearances, quotes, and citations.
2022
KSL News Radio, "How will forgiving student loan debt impact the economy?" by Aimee Cobabe (Aug. 25, 2022).
Bloomberg, "U.S. Oil Boom Towns Risk Ghost Town Future," by David Wethe and Catarina Saraiva (Mar. 26, 2022). Cites analysis by Barro, Diamond, and Evans (2021).
2021
Phys.org, "Renewable energy transition requires forward-looking fiscal policies to maintain education funding" (Nov. 10, 2021). Cites analysis by Barro, Diamond, and Evans (2021).
Rice News, "Manageable K-12 education funding shortfalls should not be an impediment to energy transition", by Jeff Falk (Nov. 8, 2021). Cites analysis by Barro, Diamond, and Evans (2021).
TaxVox, Tax Policy Center Blog, Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms, "TPC Experiments with Another Model to Estimate the Economic Effects of Tax Law Changes", by Benjamin R. Page (July 21, 2021). Cites Page, et al (2021) and DeBacker, Evans, and Page (2021a and 2021b).
2020
Wall Street Journal, The Editorial Board, Opinion, "Read Joe Biden's Lips: New Taxes," cites analysis by Pomerleau, DeBacker, and Evans (July 31, 2020).
USA TODAY, "Will coronavirus cause a baby boom, or is that just a myth? Prepare for jokes, if not babies!" by Maria Puente, (April 10, 2020).
New York Times, "Don't Expect a Quarantine Baby Boom", by Alan Yuhas (April 8, 2020). [also carried by Chicago Tribune on April 9, 2020]
Top of Mind with Julie Rose, BYU Radio, "Rick Evans on the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the CARES Act stimulus package," with Julie Rose, 0:31 to 17:39 (March 31, 2020).
2018
Forbes, "Can the U.S. Afford a Massive Wage Subsidy? A Macroeconomic Simulation" by Gregory Ferenstein (September 30, 2018).
2016
Becker Friedman Institute, Economics Amplified podcast, "Rick Evans on How Computer Science is Transforming Economics,'' with Mark Riechers (October 14, 2016).
Becker Friedman Institute, News, "Computation and the Classroom," Mark Riechers (October 12, 2016).
Becker Friedman Institute, News, "Bringing Computation into the Economist's Toolkit," Mark Riechers (August 11, 2016).
The Matt Townsend Show, BYU Radio, "Are Payday Loans Predatory?, minutes 15:56 to 41:03 (April 26, 2016).
NPR All Things Considered, "Sex and the Snowed-In Cities: Why this Blizzard Could Cause a Baby Bump," 3:43 minutes (January 23, 2016).
2015
NJ.com, "Baby boom 9 months after a snow storm: Fact or fiction?" (January 23, 2016).
BYU Radio, "Obama's Middle Class Economics and Economic Inequality," minute 7:11 to 26:08 (February 9, 2015).
2014
BYU Radio, "Turning Off the Money Spigot to the U.S. Economy,'' minute 37:39 to 52:07 (November 5, 2014).
State Tax Notes, "Economists Use Big Data Analytical Methods to Model Sales Tax Optimization," (June 16, 2014).
2013
HuffPost Live, "The Hurricane Sandy Baby Boom,'' (October 29, 2013).
Salt Lake Tribune, "Debt ceiling: What is it and why it's important to Utah investors" (October 10, 2013).
CNN.com, "Is the post-Sandy baby boom real?" (July 24, 2013).
ABC News Radio, "Hurricane Sandy Baby Boom Hits Jersey Shore Hospitals'' (July 23,2013).
CBSnews.com, "Sandy babies? 9 months after superstorm, some hospitals see spike in births" (July 23, 2013).
USA TODAY, "Sandy baby boom due at Jersey Shore" (July 22, 2013).
2012
Salt Lake Tribune, "Increasing numbers of U.S. banks move from free to fee" (November 10, 2012).
Slate.com, "Will Sandy bring a baby boom or baby bust? How disasters change marriage, divorce, and birth rates" (November 5, 2012).
RealClearMarkets.com, "Pension woe mounts as states forsake reform" (September 12, 2012).
CapitalResearch.org, "Best practices for reforming state employee pensions" (August 31, 2012).
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), "Debt trap: breaking free from the cycle of payday loans" (June 18, 2012).
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), "Dangerous debt: consumer advocate groups are urging regulators to stop payday lending by banks" (May 21, 2012).
MarginalRevolution.com, "Social Security, Savings and Stagnation" (May 4, 2012).
Salt Lake Tribune, "Despite strengths, challenges lie ahead for Utah economy" (January 12, 2012).
Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Blog, "Utah's economy is growing, education key to long-term prosperity'' (January 12, 2012).
2011
Chicago Tribune, "Oh, baby, what happened to the blizzard boom?" (November 4, 2011).
Life'sLittleMysteries.com, "Baby booms & busts to follow hurricane Irene" (September 2, 2011).
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), "Hurricane Irene may fuel baby boom" (August 30, 2011).
History.com, "Will hurricane Irene spawn a baby boom?" (August 29, 2011).
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), "Electronic currencies trying to be the online vehicle for cash" (July 24, 2011).
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), "Economists discuss jobs outlook" (April 29, 2011).
Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Blog, "Utah Economic Council discusses warning signs, positives for economy'' (April 28, 2011).
2010
KSL News Television (Salt Lake City, Utah), "Taxes going up for local businesses" (December 6, 2010).
KSL News Radio (Salt Lake City, Utah), "The Utah and national unemployment outlook" (December 3, 2010).
Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Blog, "Utah Economic Council lauds Utah export performance'' (September 27, 2010).
Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Blog, "Utah Economic Council lays out next steps'' (September 23, 2010).
Medill Reports (Chicago, Illinois), "Reform of college football's Bowl Championship Series stymied by financial interests" (March 10, 2010).
2009
Yahoo! Sports Blog, "BCS economics in 60 seconds or less" (July 15, 2009).
ESPN.com National Football Nation Blog, "An economic look at BCS bowls" (July 14, 2009).
BYU Magazine, "How It All Came Crashing Down" (Winter 2009).
2008
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), "Stay in school during financial `mess,' college students told," (October 17, 2008).
Daily Herald (Provo, Utah), "BYU professors discuss economy" (October 16, 2008).