Thesis Honors
Below are the 2024 Economics Honors Recipients.
Honors High Honors* Highest Honors**
Derek Ban**
Picking a Partner: The Effect of Removing Laws That Ban Interracial Marriage on the Marriage Rate
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Alexandra Cossette
International Spillover of U.S. Monetary Policy: The Exchange Rate Channel
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Mariia Dzholos**
Unlocking Prosperity: Do Free Trade Agreements Increase Social Welfare? A Case Study of The Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) between Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, and the European Union
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Natalie Eddy**
Climate Anxieties and Family Size Expectations
Thesis Advisor: Andrea Robbett
Dilay Erdem**
Analyzing the Impact of Immigration on the Rise of Far-Right Parties: An Analysis of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Party in Germany
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Marco Fengler (‘23.5)**
Education in the Cage: The Impact of Soccer Cages on the Educational Attainment of Foreign Children in Vienna, Austria
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Kelly Ferrero (‘23.5)
The Impact of Economic Development on the Efficiency of Environmentally Significant Agricultural Inputs
Thesis Advisor: Raphaelle Gauvin-Coulombe
Ella Gagnon (‘23.5)
Work From Home: Work From Hell or Leveling the Playing Field? An Examination of the Gender Gap in Hours Worked.
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Xiuyuan Ge ’24 [SHOW-yuan / Guh]| Highest Honors for thesis titled:
Macroeconomic Impacts of UK Government Spending Shocks: A Comparison Between Two Common Identification Methods
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Matthew Goodman (‘23.5)*
Crypto Volatility: The Impact of Central Bank Speeches
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Alexa Lane ‘23.5 | Highest Honors for thesis titled:
Injecting Evidence: An Evaluation of Syringe Exchange Programs’ Impact on Overdose Deaths
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Jaeden Lee*
Economic Sanctions and their Effect on North Korean Regional Inequality
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Xiaohe Li**
The Effect of Employee Stock Ownership Plans on Employment and Income during COIVD-19.
Thesis Advisor: Erin Wolcott
Michelle Ma
Understanding Drip Pricing: Influences of Fee Disclosure on Online Consumer Behavior
Thesis Advisor: Andrea Robbett
Zach Milton**
Political Beliefs and Social Norms
Thesis Advisor: Andrea Robbett
William Procter**
Flying Empty: The Essential Air Service Program and Its Economic Impact on Rural America
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Zhizhong Pu (‘23.5)**
Human Capital Response to Import Competition
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Carpenter
Akari Tsurumaki ‘23.5 **
Work Less Because You Care, or Care Less Because You Work? Causal Effects of Elderly Care on Labor Market Outcomes for Caregivers-Japanese Case.
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Krithika Vasireddy**
Carbon Emission Cap and Trade: Effects on Corporate Profits
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Jack Waitz**
Urban Afforestation and Infant Mortality Outcomes: Evidence from a Million Trees in New York City.
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Yinuo (Jean) Wan**
Funding Futures: The Impact of State Higher Education Funding on Teen Births
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
2022 Economics Honors Recipients
Honors High Honors* Highest Honors**
Maxwell James Auborn*
Artificial Intelligence and its Effect of College Major Decisions
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Ellen Ann Barney
Income and local context in recent U.S. presidential elections
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Ethan Maximilian Berner**
Estimating the Effect of Nuisance Property Ordinances on Eviction and Homelessness
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Sophie Grace Charron*
Examining the ADA’s impact on labor market outcomes for people with work-limiting disabilities
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Cynthia Xi-Ya Chen**
Double of Nothing: Examining the Social Impact of Tribally Owned Casinos on Native American Populations
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Lingxi Chen
The Effect of Increased Access to IVF on Women’s Careers
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Lily Rose Colón
Partisan Information Choice
Thesis Advisor: Andrea Robbett
Ernesto Rigoberto Cuxil Pérez
How do declines in net migration and decreases in remittances affect labor participation in Rural Guatemala?
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Katarina Flik
Toxic Water: PFAS Contamination in Public Water Systems and Teen Fertility in California
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Austin Gill
The Effect of Sanctuary Jurisdictions on Low-Skill Native Workers in Florida
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Catherine Han
AFDC to TANF: The Effect of Welfare Generosity on Abortions and Births
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Harvey Hassan
Learning to live with Climate Change: The effectiveness of adaptive measures in Agriculture
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Sam Kamau
Are Developing Countries Really Less Happy Than Developed Countries? Exploring Uncertainty and the Happiness Index as Reported by the World Happiness Report
Thesis Advisor: Andrea Robbett
Yuta Kato
The Olympic Games: Assessment of the Factors Determining Participation and Success
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Grace Kirkpatrick
Measuring the impact of state level educational expenditures on labor market outcomes for individuals with adverse childhood experiences
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Riley Elizabeth Kinum**
Restrictive Reproductive Policy and its Effects on Female Employment in the Nineteenth Century
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Benjamin P. Lahey*
Deconstructing the Beveridge Curve: Matching Efficiency in U.S. Commuting Zones and a Solution to the Vacancy Data Shortage
Thesis Advisor: Andrea Robbett
Alexander Lee
The impact of ESG scores on firm price risk during crisis
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Michelle Liu**
Tokenized Project Financing: Potential Alternative to Public Equity Finance
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Anthony Edward Marinello
The Workaholic College Student: Are Rising Tuition Cost the Driving Factor behind increases in Undergraduate Student Employment?
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Henry McDonough*
The Effect of Cognitive Load on Risk Taking and Susceptibility to the Illusion of Control
Thesis Advisor: Jeff Carpenter
Quinlan McGaugh*
Hesitation Kills - Measuring the Impact of the ACA’s Medicaid Expansion on Covid-19 Health Outcomes
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Claire Moy
Broadband Ho!: Evaluating Broadband Deployment in Rural America’s Growth
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
Tai Nguyen
The Response of Retail Spending and Real Consumption to Housing Wealth Shocks: Evidence from Geographically Linked Retail Data
Thesis Advisor: Phani Wunnava
William Jared Oppenheim*
The Effect of Body-Worn Cameras on Police Killings in the United States
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Kavita Patel**
Does Marijuana Reform Improve Racial Disparities in Incarceration Rates?
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
John Kroger Pettengill**
Spillovers from WWII Army Air Force Bases on Local Economies in the Rural United States
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Christian Poulson*
Diversity in Start-up fundraising: Gender and Race Education
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Zachary S. Shapiro**
Sports gambling and tax revenue
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Shridhar Hari Singhania
Free Lunches? Education & Health Impacts of India’s ‘Mid-Day Meal’ Program
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Joseph W. Spada**
The effect of New Jersey’s 2019 Minimum Wage Increase on Employment
Thesis Advisor: John Maluccio
Patrick Stevenson
The Effects of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests on Elections and Police Violence
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong
Frieda Violet Thaveethu
Reducing the Burden? The Effects of Mail-order Abortion Pills on Clinic Visits and Distance Traveled
Thesis Advisor: Caitlin Myers
Xiaoyu Wu**
Follow the Cues: The Effects of Republican Leaders’ Testimonials on COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in the United States
Thesis Advisor: Erick Gong