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Mary F. Evans is a professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Department of Economics (by courtesy) at The University of Texas at Austin. 

Prior to joining UT in 2021, she was the Jerrine and Thomas Mitchell ‘66 Professor of Environmental Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow in the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna College. She also previously served on the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Tennessee.

Professor Evans has primary research and teaching interests in the field of environmental economics and policy.  Her research also explores applied questions in health policy and child and family policy. Her research has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Science, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, among other journals. She received the 2016 Ralph C. d'Arge and Allen V. Kneese Award for Outstanding Publication in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists for her paper "The Clean Air Act Watch List: An Enforcement and Compliance Natural Experiment." She has received funding from the EPA, the Sloan Foundation, and the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation.

Professor Evans is an editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM).