Economics Senior Thesis
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2020 Senior Thesis Titles
Aidan Acosta [Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio]
Cap-and-Trade and environmental justice: A study of California's RECLAIM program
Christopher Adamo [Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott]
Fake News and Behavioral Political Economy: A Study of the 2020 Presidential Primaries
Owen Anderson [Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott]
The Price of Transition: An Analysis of Post-Communist Price Liberalization and "Deaths of Despair"
Emily Barnard [Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio]
The impact of conditional cash transfers on homicide and domestic violence: An analysis on the PRAF-II conditional cash transfer program
Robert Bernhardt [Thesis Advisor: Phanni Wunnava]
The CPS Citizenship Question and Survey Refusals: A Causal Link?
Seth Boswell [Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott]
The Effect of Labor Cost Innovations on Consumer Welfare in an Endogenous Growth Model
Alex Cook [Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong]
Did Climate Change Facilitate the Collapse of the Roman Empire?
Alfred Cramer [Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio]
Free market cattle: Understanding the effects of agricultural subsidies on land dedicated to animal husbandry in New Zealand
Nathaniel Evans [Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter]
Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence of Intersectionality between Race and Gender with a Focus on Asian-Americans
Brett Dineen [Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong]
Prescription Opioids: Are They Facilitating the Current Opioid Crisis
Hallie Feibel [Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter]
Gender Differences in the Wage Expectations of College Students
Elizabeth Friesen [Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio]
CCT impact on non-targeted children: An evaluation of education spillovers from a conditional cash transfer in Kenya
Elisa Gan [Thesis Advisor: Akhil Rao]
Gift of Boom or Doom? Assessing the Impact of Chinese Aid on Deforestation in Kenya
Grayson Goolsby [Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava]
Do You Really Want to Buy That?: Revealed Preferences in Technology Firms' Mergers and Acquisitions Strategy
Chase Goree [Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava]
The Digital Divide: Determinants of Mobile Phone Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lin Han [Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong]
Are firms promoting the right people?
Farhan Haque [Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio]
The Bangladeshi garment manufacturing industry: Effects on education
Mike Hayes [Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong]
Opportunity in Opportunity Zones: Does Incentivizing Private Investment Promote the EMH?
Katherine Hertan [Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott]
The Effect of Language vs. Culture on Future-Orientation
Nathan Hill [Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter]
The Market Value of School Facilities: The Influence of Educational Capital Expenditures on Local Home Prices
Sean Howard [Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott]
How Does Monetary Policy Impact Rents in Different US Cities?
Yihe Jiang [Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio]
The effect of in-utero Ramadan exposure on birth outcomes and maternal investments
Olivia Jin [Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava]
Self-Perceived Economic Welfare and Life Satisfaction in Russia
Philip Klinck [Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott]
Internet Access and Attitudes Towards Democracy in East Asia
Evan Lavery [Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter]
Decreasing Energy Use with Ambient Feedback
Jessica Lipton [Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott]
Are College Closures Causing Nearby High Schoolers to Drop Out?
Jack Litowitz [Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott]
Investing in Analysis: Evaluating the Financial Effects of Insider Trading on Mergers
Haley McCreary [Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio]
Race, gender, and health care utilization of accountable care organization Medicare beneficiaries
Diana McLeod [Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter]
Discrepancies between attitudes and behaviors when determining immigrant legal status in the US: evidence from GoFundMe campaigns
Will Meyer [Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong]
Does Consolidation Raise Industry Profits?
Ryan Moise [Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava]
Inequality of Opportunity and the Children Left Behind
Connor Montgomery [Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong]
Can Healthy School Lunches Break the Health Poverty Trap?
Chica Morrow [Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong]
Does participation in moai among the okinawan population affect social capital or mental health outcomes?
Asra Muhammadi [Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio]
Positive rainfall shocks, child anthropometric outcomes, and healthcare insurance in the context of Pakistan
Olivia Reed [Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong]
The Protestant Ethic: Fact or Fiction?
Benjamin Drucker Rivitz [Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava]
Salary Distributions and Performance Statistics: How to Achieve Optimal Outcomes
Arthur Ross [Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott]
Do Airports Cause Industry-Specific Spatial Spillovers? Evidence from Panel Data
Fazl Shaikh [Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava]
How Online Crowdfunding is Contributing to a Shift in the Charitable Giving Landscape for Nonprofit Organizations
Nicholas Sharpe [Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter]
Measuring the Effect of Major League Baseball's Competitive Balance Tax
Ronnie Shereni [Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio]
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
John William Stenovec [Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava]
Post-Crisis Determinants of Value in Domestic Equity Markets
Daniel Tighe [Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter]
The Impact of Inequality and Information Asymmetry on Asset Market Bubbles and Trader Performance
Gabriella Willingham [Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio]
The effectiveness of LARC initiatives on reducing unintended pregnancy
Ivy Yang [Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong]
Share the Wealth: The Effect of Carnegie Libraries on Education
Greyson Zatzick [Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter]
Improving the Quality of Job Match Using Labor Market Policy: A Case for the Basic Income
Melody Zhang [Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter]
A Behaviorally Validated Warm Glow Questionnaire
Anna Zumwinkle [Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio]
Does the institution where you earned your Bachelor's degree from influence your job satisfaction? An empirical analysis of the determinants of job satisfaction