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M.D.R. Evans is Senior Research Fellow in the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. She is a graduate of Reed College (BA) and the University of Chicago (PhD) and has been a visiting scholar at Brown University, Stanford University, and the University of Michigan. She is currently studying the causes, consequences, and policy implications of entrepreneurship; migration; labour market preferences, values and participation; and is undertaking major programs of research on the ideology of income inequality and on bio-ethics (both with Jonathan Kelley), based on their Australian and international surveys.

She has published one book this year and another two years ago, both with Jonathan Kelley and published by Federation Press: Australian Economy and Society 2002: Religion, Morality, and Public Policy in International Perspective, 1984-2002 and Australian Economy and Society 2001: Education, Work and Welfare. The third book in the ongoing series, Marriage and the Family, is scheduled for next year.

She has also published widely in academic journals in Australia (Australian Economic Review; Australian Social Monitor; Journal of Sociology; Journal of the Australian Population Association; People and Place); Britain (Sociology; British Journal of Sociology); Europe (European Sociological Review; Social Indicators Research; International Journal of Public Opinion Research); and the USA (American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological Review; Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy; Gender Issues; International Migration Review; Journal of Stem Cell Research and Development; Population and Development Review; Research in Social Stratification and Mobility).

In 2003 she and Kelley won the World Association for Public Opinion Research’s Worcester Prize for the research presented in Chapter 19 of this year's book. (Selected papers and full CV )

Jonathan Kelley is Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, the University of Melbourne. He was previously Senior Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies, the Australian National University and has been visiting Professor at Brown University and at Stanford University. He is a graduate of Cambridge University (BA) and the University of California (PhD). He is currently studying inequality, social mobility, religion and bio-ethics, together with a participant observation study of twins (with Evans).

He has written three books. Two are with Evans, one published by Federation Press this year: Australian Economy and Society 2002: Religion, Morality, and Public Policy in International Perspective, 1984-2002 and another two years ago: Australian Economy and Society 2001: Education, Work and Welfare, with yet another in the series, Marriage and the Family, scheduled for next year. His other book (with Herbert S. Klein) is Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: A Theory Applied to the National Revolution in Bolivia, University of California Press.

He has published widely in academic journals in Australia (Australian Economic Review; Journal of Sociology); Britain (Sociology; British Journal of Sociology); Europe (International Social Science Journal; International Journal of Public Opinion Research; Social Indicators Research; Quality and Quantity); and USA (American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological Review; American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy; Journal of Stem Cell Research and Development; Comparative Politics; Public Opinion Quarterly; Sociological Methods and Research; Research in Social Stratification and Mobility).

He has won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Prize for Behavioral Science Research (with Herbert S. Klein) and the World Association for Public Opinion Research’s Worcester Prize (with Evans). (Selected papers and full CV)

Joanna Sikora is Lecturer in sociology at the Australian National University, adjunct fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, and has also taught at New Mexico State University. She was educated at Wroclaw (Mgr), the National University of Ireland, and the Australian National University (PhD). Her research interests focus on comparisons of economic attitudes, labour market changes in industrialised countries, and ethics.

She has published book chapters and articles in several academic journals (Australian Social Monitor; Research in Social Stratification and Mobility; The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review). (Homepage)

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