Thesis Honors
Below are the 2023 Economics Honors Recipients.
Honors High Honors* Highest Honors**
Payoja Adhikari **
Effect of Bargaining Power on Fertility-Related Outcomes: Evidence from Nepal after the 2006 Interim Constitution
Thesis Advisor: Raphaelle Gauvin-Coulombe
Praniti Agarwal **
The Impact of Endowment Heterogeneity on Conditional Cooperation in the Presence of Punishment
Thesis Advisor: Jeff Carpenter
Benjamin F Awtrey **
Calculating FDA Announcements: Examining the Impact of Firm Characteristics and Behavior in Securities Markets
Thesis Advisor: Peter Matthews
Erica J Barr **
Motherhood and career: comparing mother’s work histories due to childcare
Thesis Advisor: Raphaelle Gauvin-Coulombe
Tim Chen
Inheritance vs. Merit: Investigating Intergenerational Income Association in urban China
Thesis Advisor: Will Pyle
Edward Max Cluss
Experimental Asset Bubbles
Thesis Advisor: Peter Matthews
Mollie E. Dalbey
Do People Care Enough To Change? An Investigation of Consumer Behavior and Climate Knowledge
Thesis Advisor: Peter Matthews
Anusha Datta **
Sector of Maternal Employment and Daughter’s Educational Outcomes in Bangladesh
Thesis Advisor: Peter Matthews
Ethan Ding
Recent evidence on the intergenerational transmission of income - the effects of birth order and family size
Thesis Advisor: Jeff Carpenter
Theodore Galen Flesher
Capitalizing on Streaming Audiences in Live Performance
Thesis Advisor: Jeff Carpenter
Anjana Giridhar **
Remote Work and Real Estate: How Work From Home Affects Home Prices
Thesis Advisor: Raphaelle Gauvin-Coulombe
Kaitlyn Grace Girouard **
Public Perceptions of Domestic Violence and the Role of Attorney Gender in Sentencing Violent Offenders
Thesis Advisor: Jeff Carpenter
Constance Laranja Gooding **
Addressing the Blind Spot: Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance Termination
Thesis Advisor: Will Pyle
Meredith Brandow Hespe *
Who Are We After a Superstorm: A Study of Pro-social and Altruistic Behavior in post-Hurricane Sandy New Jersey
Thesis Advisor: Peter Matthews
Maxwell Jules Homans **
Connecting Corporate Governance to Carbon Emissions Reductions: Evidence from S&P 500 Companies
Thesis Advisor: Raphaelle Gauvin-Coulombe
Tim Tian Hua **
Cultural Effects of Fox News
Thesis Advisor: Peter Matthews
Martha Katherine Hyde **
Heat or Eat: The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and Food Insecurity
Thesis Advisor: Will Pyle
Anthony Douglas King
Telemedicine in the Age of COVID-19: Assessing Telemedicine’s Role in the Healthcare Industry
Thesis Advisor: Will Pyle
Imran Mohamed Ladha **
An Estimation of the Cost of Effort from an Incentive Contract
Thesis Advisor: Jeff Carpenter
Oliver William Leeds **
Playing the Odds: Investigating the Effects of Asymmetric Information on Decision-Making Explored Through Poker
Thesis Advisor: Jeff Carpenter
Helena Feliza Baldoza Lemos **
Socioeconomic and Sociodemographic Characteristics of Internal US Migrants in Response to Natural Disasters
Thesis Advisor: Raphaelle Gauvin-Coulombe
Sara Forrest Massey *
Is Anyone Listening? A Look at Advice in the Ultimatum Game
Thesis Advisor: Jeff Carpenter
Sean Michael McGarrity *
Have Cities Lost Their Charm? Covid-19 Impacts on Urban Real Estate
Thesis Advisor: Will Pyle
Claire Julia Miller *
Earnings and Unemployment Disparities between People with and without Disabilities: A Post-ADA Comparison
Thesis Advisor: Raphaelle Gauvin-Coulombe
Masataka Mori **
The Eurozone Phillips Curve
Thesis Advisor: Peter Matthews
Douglas Ebby Rosin
The Effect of School Funding Reform on Vermont Public Schools
Thesis Advisor: Peter Matthews
Laney Sullivan *
Supporting Pro-Environmental Policy: The Role of Time and Risk Preferences
Thesis Advisor: Jeff Carpenter
Prateek Wadhavkar
Zoned Out: The Impact of Land Use Policy on Eviction Filing
Thesis Advisor: Will Pyle
Sofia Carmen Yubero **
Is the Barron’s “Certification Effect” Stronger for Female Financial Advisors?
Thesis Advisor: Will Pyle
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