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2012 Senior Thesis Titles

Predicting Popular Music: How Pleasure Center Activations and Music Theory Explain Differentials in Artist and Song Popularity - Anne Bogert

The Effects of College Characteristics on Returns to Education - Kathryn Bostwick

The Effect of Food Aid on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ugandan HIV Positive Individuals and their Households - Martin Breu

Explaining Black Unemployment in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: A Case of Spatial Mismatch or Educational Inequality? - Alyson Downing

The Effect of One-Child Policy’s Allowance of An Additional Child on Children’s Height-for-Age Z Score - Yang Hu

Comparing Objective and Subjective Measurements of Poverty in Rural Guatemala - Safa Mohsin Khan

The Role of Education in the Migrant Experience: Analyzing Economic Returns to Education for Rural-Urban Migrants in China - Jesse Lazarus

The Relative Economic Value of Private Equity Compared to Venture Capital on the Portfolio Companies - Peter Le

Infrastructure and Regional Disparity in China from 1985 to 2008 - Lei Lei

Risk Neutrality in a Prospect Theory Framework* - Jason Mooty

Determinants of Interregional Migration in Post-Soviet Russia: Federal District Flows over the First Two Decades of Transition - Alex Myerson

The Impact of Business Association Membership on Chinese Firms’  Choices of Dispute Settlement Mechanisms - Amanda Ng

The Long-term Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions on Earnings of Doctorate Recipients - Ying Daisy Zhuo