Honors in Economics
2020 Economics Honors Recipients
Christopher L. Adamo, PBK – Highest Honors
Fake News and Behavioral Political Economy: A Study of the 2020 Presidential Primaries
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Owen C. Anderson – Highest Honors
The Price of Transition: An Analysis of Post-Communist Price Liberalization and "Deaths of Despair"
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Emily E. Barnard – High Honors
The impact of conditional cash transfers on homicide and domestic violence: An analysis on the PRAF-II conditional cash transfer program
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Robert Drew Bernhardt, PBK – Highest Honors
The CPS Citizenship Question and Survey Refusals: A Causal Link?
Thesis Advisor: Phanni Wunnava
Seth S. Boswell – High Honors
The Effect of Labor Cost Innovations on Consumer Welfare in an Endogenous Growth Model
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Alexandra Claire Cook – Highest Honors
Did Climate Change Facilitate the Collapse of the Roman Empire?
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Alfred H. Cramer – High Honors
Free market cattle: Understanding the effects of agricultural subsidies on land dedicated to animal husbandry in New Zealand
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Nathaniel Alexander Evans – High Honors
Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence of Intersectionality between Race and Gender with a Focus on Asian-Americans
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter
Brett Matthew Dineen – Honors
Prescription Opioids: Are They Facilitating the Current Opioid Crisis
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Hallie Rachel Feibel – Highest Honors
Gender Differences in the Wage Expectations of College Students
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter
Elizabeth V. Friesen – Honors
CCT impact on non-targeted children: An evaluation of education spillovers from a conditional cash transfer in Kenya
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Elisa Gan – Highest Honors
Gift of Boom or Doom? Assessing the Impact of Chinese Aid on Deforestation in Kenya
Thesis Advisor: Akhil Rao
Grayson T. Goolsby – Highest Honors
Do You Really Want to Buy That?: Revealed Preferences in Technology Firms’ Mergers and Acquisitions Strategy
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Chase McLaren Goree – Honors
The Digital Divide: Determinants of Mobile Phone Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Lin Han – Highest Honors
Are firms promoting the right people?
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Farhan Haque – High Honors
The Bangladeshi garment manufacturing industry: Effects on education
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Michael Crocker Hayes – Honors
Opportunity in Opportunity Zones: Does Incentivizing Private Investment Promote the EMH?
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Katherine C. Hertan, PBK – Highest Honors
The Effect of Language vs. Culture on Future-Orientation
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Nathan Jay Hill – High Honors
The Market Value of School Facilities: The Influence of Educational Capital Expenditures on Local Home Prices
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter
Sean P. Howard – Highest Honors
How Does Monetary Policy Impact Rents in Different US Cities?
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Olivia Songmee Jin – Highest Honors
Self-Perceived Economic Welfare and Life Satisfaction in Russia
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Philip K. Klinck – High Honors
Internet Access and Attitudes Towards Democracy in East Asia
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Evan P. Lavery – Highest Honors
Decreasing Energy Use with Ambient Feedback
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter
Jessica R. Lipton – Honors
Are College Closures Causing Nearby High Schoolers to Drop Out?
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Haley C. McCreary, PBK – Highest Honors
Race, gender, and health care utilization of accountable care organization Medicare beneficiaries
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Diana Jane McLeod – Highest Honors
Discrepancies between attitudes and behaviors when determining immigrant legal status in the US: evidence from GoFundMe campaigns
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter
Will James Meyer – Highest Honors
Does Consolidation Raise Industry Profits?
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Ryan Clark Moise – High Honors
Inequality of Opportunity and the Children Left Behind
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Connor H. Montgomery, PBK – Highest Honors
Can Healthy School Lunches Break the Health Poverty Trap?
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Asra Muhammadi – High Honors
Positive rainfall shocks, child anthropometric outcomes, and healthcare insurance in the context of Pakistan
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Olivia Paige Reed – Highest Honors
The Protestant Ethic: Fact or Fiction?
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Benjamin Drucker Rivitz – High Honors
Salary Distributions and Performance Statistics: How to Achieve Optimal Outcomes
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Fazl Ahmad Shaikh – Honors
How Online Crowdfunding is Contributing to a Shift in the Charitable Giving Landscape for Nonprofit Organizations
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Nicholas Walker Sharpe – High Honors
Measuring the Effect of Major League Baseball's Competitive Balance Tax
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter
Ronnie T. Shereni – High Honors
Food, HIV, and human capital development: Effects of a food assistance program on education, labor and health outcomes for children living with HIV positive adults
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
John William Stenovec – High Honors
Post-Crisis Determinants of Value in Domestic Equity Markets
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Daniel Patrick Tighe – High Honors
The Impact of Inequality and Information Asymmetry on Asset Market Bubbles and Trader Performance
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter
Gabriella C. Willingham – Highest Honors
The effectiveness of LARC initiatives on reducing unintended pregnancy
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Ivy Yang, PBK – Highest Honors
Share the Wealth: The Effect of Carnegie Libraries on Education
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Greyson Kelly Zatzick – Highest Honors
Improving the Quality of Job Match Using Labor Market Policy: A Case for the Basic Income
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter
Mingfang Zhang – High Honors
A Behaviorally Validated Warm Glow Questionnaire
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter
Anna E. Zumwinkle – Honors
Does the institution where you earned your Bachelor’s degree from influence your job satisfaction? An empirical analysis of the determinants of job satisfaction
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio