Economics Honors Student Theses
Examples of past honor theses by year
Aleena Ahmed, Can Developing Countries Pursue Low-Carbon Growth Without Slowing Economic Development or Deepening Inequality?
Alexander Mitchell, Do New Air Routes Create Jobs? European Evidence from a Network-Informed Difference-in-Differences Design
Ananya Narayanan, Expecting Eligibility: Paid Family Leave and Intertemporal Labor Supply Around Childbirth
Andrew Zhong, How Multilateral Globalization Really Affects US Regional Wages: Evidence from 1990 to 2000
Brian Huynh, The Effect of English Proficiency on Financial Asset Ownership: A Study of U.S. Immigrants
Carston Maher, A Causal Analysis of Neoliberal Policy and Its Impact on Economic Outcomes
Eric Kim, Macroprudential Tightening and Non-Ownership Housing Prices: Evidence from Seoul
Eshanika Sreekanth Urs, Private Equity Acquisition of Hospitals: Evidence on Billing Intensity and Financial Incentives
Garrett Spillane, Financial Access and the Timing of Maternal Care: Evidence from M-Pesa in Kenya
Hans Xu, The Impact of Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care Act on Health-Related Non-Employment
Henry Min, Longitudinal Trends on Economists’ Political Ideology
Jonathan Lee, Price Transparency Compliance and Elective Care Patterns in New Jersey Hospitals
Mahir Rahman, Private Equity Acquisitions and Hospital Operating Mechanisms
Malcolm Certain, The Effect of School Shootings on Student Performance
Michael Hulala, Economic Drivers of Internal Migration in the United States: A State-Level Panel Analysis (2000–2019)
Natalie Chen, How Taiwanese American Ethnic Enclaves Shape Labor Market Outcomes
Nathaniel Rodden, Measuring U.S. Dollar Sentiment in Financial News and Its Relationship to Dollar Market Indices
Preetish Juneja, Fading the News: Sentiment, Forecast Errors, and Belief Distortions in FX Markets
Thomas Kvaal, Hospital Market Concentration and Cancer Survival: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data
Victor Xia, Keeping Incarcerated People Safe? Evaluating PREA
Calvin Kirk, The Effects of Shelter on Emergency Department Use: Evidence from Project Roomkey
Joshua Silverman, Beyond Raw Income: How Income Inequality Hinders Test Proficiency
Maggie Jiang, From Policy to Perception: The Effects of LGB Legislation on Employment Discrimination and Structural Stigma
Mira Mehta, Estimating the Effects of the Great Migration on Public Education Policy
Nadya Tan, The Effects of COVID-19’s Shock to Remote Work on Women’s Labor Market Outcomes
Amaya Allen, The Impact of Automatic Renewals on Medicaid Enrollment and Insurance Coverage
Aryan Joshi, Player Auctions & Market Efficiency: Are IPL Player Auctions a True Reflection of Player Potential?
Tianyu Zhou, The Cave: Evidence and Consequences of Earnings (Mis)management
Theo Hardy, Continuous and Discontinuous Effects of Arrival Age on Secondary Schooling: The Refugee Case in Germany
QiJia HuangChen, Examining the Influence of Population on Economics in China
Neha Narayan, There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch: Application Costs and Exclusion from School Welfare Programs
Min Namgung, COVID-19 Representation in Newspapers: Political Sentiment and Coverage Trends
Max Goldstein, Short-Term Impacts of Rent Deregulation on Gentrification and Housing Quality in New York City
Mahin Ashfaq, Impact of 2010 Floods on Health and Educational Outcomes in Pakistan
Imri Haggin, Significance of Transparency and Accountability in ESG Reporting
Hayden Sisemore, Investigating Non-response Bias in FBI Crime Data
Ruoyu Fan, Fertility and Educational Investment: Evidence from Universal Two-Child Policy in China
Francisca Saldivar Palacios, Is Antitrust Enforcement Effective? Evidence from the Energy Sector
David Vojtaskovic, The Impact of Government Subsidies on Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of the Instituto Nacional del Emprendedor in Mexico
Augustus Bayard, Student Loan Debt Forgiveness and Post-Graduation Behavior: Evidence from the Spiegel Family Fund Gift at Otis College of Art and Design
Annabel Roth, What Is the Impact of Gun Laws on Firearm Homicides? Investigating the Plausibility of Obtaining Valid Causal Effects
Amil Mumssen, Does Cap-and-Trade Pricing Reduce Co-pollutant Emissions? Evidence from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Amelia Michael, A Comparative Analysis of Models of Occupational Exposure to AI
Adam Dieck, Bayesian Estimation of Dynamic Term Structure Models for Interest Rates
Ben Balint-Kurti, The Effect of Right to Work Laws on Unionization and Labor Market Outcomes
Zachary Reiss, The Effects of Medicaid Enrollment on COVID-19 Mortality: Did Expansion Save Lives?
Vandana Ramesh, How has the widespread introduction of telework options affected the use of family leave, childcare leave, and parental leave?
Patrick Rhatigan, Exclusionary Zoning in Massachusetts An Analysis of MA Chapter 40B
Noah Ball-Burack, Google Search Data for Predicting Population-Level Mental Health
Michael Lee, Combining Payoff and Cognitive Uncertainty: A Player-Cognitive Type Space
Meredith Hilkert, Financial Literacy in Teens around the Globe: Using Evidence from PISA to Investigate Gender Gaps
Gianna Finear, Impacts of Raising the Alcohol Excise Tax on Alcohol Consumption and Related Harms in the United States
Emma Golden, Progress or Propaganda: An Analysis of Net-Zero State Policies & The Green and Brown Labor Markets
Claire Costa, A Geolocated Assessment of the Relationship between Deforestation and Property Rights Variation: A Case Study on Malawi
Chaelin Jung, The Effects of Old-Age Pensions on Intrahousehold Health: Evidence From Bolivia
Arjun Shanmugam, Does Eviction Affect Crime? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Boston
Anna Noé-Nordberg, Unequal Before the Law: Plea Deal Rates and Attorney Experience
Alexey Boyko, Energy Efficiency and Political Competition at the Local Level: Evidence from Connecticut
Bilal Noor Memon, The Afterlife of Slavery: How Conditions of Enslavement Relate to Post-emancipation Outcomes
Anson Shyu, Prudent Policy or Placebo? Examining Effects of COVID Stimulus Checks
Aditya Kapur, The Long Term Health and Education Impacts of British Canals in Punjab, India
Molly Cook, COVID-19 Schooling Mode and Women's Unemployment Insurance Claims: Evidence from Ohio
Akhil Saxena, Heterogeneous Outcomes of Welfare Reform: Examining the Effects of AFDC Waivers
Alexander Conner, Perturbation Methods and Rational Approximants for Simple Yield Curves
Joseph Sheely, Comparative Risk Analysis of Cryptoassets through the Aumann and Serrano Economic Index of Riskiness
Kunj Padh, The Effect of Industrial Robots on Employment: Evidence from Canadian Labor Markets
Shinyoung Lee, The 1999 Privatization of Marriage Brokers, Marriage Migration, and Provincial Sex Ratio in South Korea
Okezie Okoro, Salary Differences Across Race, Region, and Ethnicity Among Professional Soccer Players in Europe
Gisela Hoxha, The Effect of Cumulative Migration on the Choices of Agricultural Households in Albania Over Time
Augustus Kmetz, Great Expectations: The Information Implications of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Releases
Alabi Mojolaoluwa, “To Keep Nigeria One”: Effects of the Biafran War on Education
Jacob Henry Furst, Abstracting from Jointly Observed StateVariables in Nonparametric Multinomial Choice Estimation
Jae Kim, Foreign Direct Investment and Corruption Patterns: Evidence from India
Sarah S. Conlisk, Hidden Costs of Hidden Aid: The Impact of Net Price Calculators on Access to College
Rebecca Aman, Does HOPE spring eternal? The impacts of policy changes to the Georgia HOPE Scholarship
Hugh Klein, The Effect of White House “Leaks” on Media Coverage
Sofia La Porta Drago, Masters of Minima
James Okun, The Effect of Transparency on Political Speech:Evidence from the U.S. Congressional Press Galleries
Samuel Cai, The Effect of Gun Control Legislation on Firearm InjuryRates: Evidence from New York and New Jersey
Julia H. Gilman, Diversity in the Newsroom: The Impact of Editors’Race and Gender on Promotions and Content
Sachin Sastri, The Impact of National Soccer TeamPerformance on Attitudes TowardsMinorities in European Countries
Renuka Diwan, The Effect of Rural Road Development on Hospital Births:Evidence from India
Nicoletta Zinni, Women's Empowerment and Fertility
Ruby Steedle, Pharmacotherapy and Opioid Mortality: The Effect of Supply Constraints
Joshua Beck, The Agri-Cultural Origins of Religiosity
Julia Kirschenbaum, Immigrants, The Social Safety Net, and The Academic Achievement Gap: Evidence from the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)
Chuqing Li, Instagram Influencer Marketing Strategies for Growing Business
Suvy Qin, Along for the Ride: Impacts of Commuting on Birth Outcomes