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Richard Evans is Senior Economist at the Abundance Institute. I also hold appointments as Director of the Open Source Economics Laboratory, and President of Open Research Group, Inc. I specialize in macroeconomics, public economics, and computational economics. I am a core maintainer of the OG-Core open source large scale macroeconomic model of demographics and fiscal policy and its country calibrations in the US, UK, South Africa, Indonesia, Philippines, India, and Malaysia. I am also a core maintainer of the FiscalSim-US open source microsimulation model of federal and state individual income tax and benefit policy.I have held previous positions at the University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute, Tax Policy Center, Rice University, and Brigham Young University, and Utah State University. I have founded, funded, and directed two major open-source and open-access student mentoring computational economics research and training programs—Open Source Economics Laboratory, University of Chicago 2017-2020 and BYU Macroeconomics and Computational Laboratory, Brigham Young University 2012-2016. I have also spent time as a researcher at the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Utah Economic Council, and as an economic consultant. I have provided macroeconomic modeling consulting services to the United Nations, European Commission, World Bank, and Indian Ministry of Finance.I hold a Ph.D. and M.S. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin (2008, 2005), an M.A. in public policy from Brigham Young University (2003), and a B.A. in economics from Brigham Young University (1998).

Listed skills include Research, Stata, Statistics, Data Analysis, and 18 others.