Previous Economics Distinction Students

2020-2021 Distinction Students

Lia Z. Chabot - House Prices and Birth Rates: A Replication Study
Yijing Chen - How Broadband Infrastructure Affects Labor Force Participation of Rural Households
Madison Kovach - The Effect of Identity Theft Victimization on Consumer Payment Behavior
Bin Lio - The Impact of Children’s Education on Parents’ Physical Health and Cognition
Can Luo - Impacts of Number of Children on Married Women’s Labor Supply and Earning
Jacob Waldron - Wal-Mart: The American Labor Market Boogieman? Researching the Effects of Wal-Mart Locational Choice on Local Labor Markets

2019-2020 Distinction Students

Austin Church - Risk Tolerance and its Effect on Majoring in Art
Hailey Hudson -Underage Versus Legal Alcohol Consumption and the Patterns Among Demographic Characteristics
Emerson Womble - The Impact of Justice Department Consent Decrees from the 1970s and 1980s on Minority and Female Representation in Police and Fire Departments
Xinyue Zhang - How Refugees and Economic Immigrants Given Old Versus Young Act Differently on Their Human Capital Investment
Brianna Ward - The Determinants of Poverty Ratio as a Child on Outcomes as an Adult
Ziwei Zhang - The Effect of Government Investment on Private Investment in China: Crowding-In Versus Crowding-out

2018-2019 Distinction Students

Eden Afework - Understanding the Relationship between Height and Labor Market Outcomes
Hannah Gross - Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die: World Series Success and Effects on Survival of Major League Baseball Players
Molly Kerstetter - The Effect of Mandated Fertility Treatments on Female Wages
Sunlee Stechuk - Social Capital Investment on Refugees and Economic Immigrants
Cameron Taylor - Unintended Consequences: Assessing the Realized Impact of Dodd-Frank

2017-2018 Distinction Students

Matteo Nadalutti - Widening The Wage Gap? Repeal Of Equal Employment Opportunity Programs And The Controversy Of California Proposition 209
Grant Webster - The Effect of Socio-Economic Status in the Obesity Epidemic, Weight Recognition, and Weight Management
Kyle Putnam - Determinants of Employment and Earning for Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
Leigh-Anne Barreira - Adolescent Psychological Distress on Employment Outcomes
Valerie R. Boctor - Reevaluating the Life Cycle/Permanent Income Hypothesis: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Lixiao Shan - The Effect of the Unemployment rate on the Homeownership Rate

2016-2017 Distinction Students

Nathalie Abigail Budiman - The Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on US Immigrant Labor Market Characteristics
Jeffrey Gould - A Statistical Analysis on the Impact of Marijuana Legalization on the Work Place and Drug Overdose Fatalities
Canming Jiang - The Effect of Parent Characteristics on College Major
Wyatt Suling - The Impact of Victim and Perpetrator Characteristics on Kidnapping Outcomes in Colombia 1970-2010

2015-2016 Distinction Students

Taylar Cobb - The Effect of the 2008 Financial Crisis on Depression: Does the State of the Local Economy Affect Mental Health in Americans?
Tianhao Lan - Abnormal Returns and Intensity of Share Pledging in the Chinese-Mainland Stock Market
Li Cheng Li - The lntertemporal Substitution of Leisure: The Effects of Temperature on Hours of Work
Eashaa D. Parekh - Women, Work, and Wages: The Labor Market Effects of Equal Pay Laws
Matthew Pietz - Bruised Ballots: A Study of Violent Crime and Voter Participation in the U.S.
Bryce Scott VanderBerg - Examining the Marginal Effect of Right-to-Work Legislation on Traditionally Highly Unionized States: An Examination from the Current Population Survey
Yuqing Xie - Is Attitude Shaped More by Culture or Economic Events? Eastern and Western Europeans' Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and the Great Recession
Mengran Zhang - Migration at the Provincial Level in China: Effects of the Economic Motivation and Migration Cost

2014-2015 Distinction Students

Valdrin Berisha - Immigrant Families Language Acquisition - Effects from Children
Kevin Donovan - Estimating the Causal Effect of Clinical Recommendations on Screening and Vaccination Decisions
Lidia Medina - An Indentured Generation? The Effect of Student Debt on Entrepreneurship

2013-2014 Distinction Students

Kenneth Arbuckle - The Impact of Arrest on Expectations of Educational Attainment and Criminal Punishment
Elizabeth Larimore - The Effect of Minimum Wage Increases on Adolescent Smoking Rates
Ke Xu - The Effect of Macroeconomic Conditions on Applications to Supplemental Security Income

2012-2013 Distinction Students

Joseph Andrade - Labor Market Assimilation: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
Alex Curthoys - Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on hate Crime
Brendon Dunham - The Effect of Minimum Wage on Youth Smoking
Sam Giber - The Impact of Macroeconomic Events on Microfinance Institutions
Benjamin Hatch - The Effects of Sex Offenders on Housing Sales Prices
Joseph Smeeding - Single Mothers Labor Supply Response to the EITC

2011-2012 Distinction Students

Forrest Ball - An Analysis of Classification Policy in the United States
Stephen Alexander Barton - Measuring Sex Trafficking from Russia to the U.S.
Yuk Ki Chau - Predicting Housing Prices using Lagged Regressions with Leading Indicators
Ryan Michael Daddi - The 1999 Repeal of Glass-Steagall: The Effect on U.S. Commercial Banks
Oriana I. Fuentes - The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Sovereign Debt Sustainability in Latin America
Qiu Jin - Substitution in Spousal Age: Evidence from the Great Chinese Famine
Bonnie Kong - Is Elitism a Myth? A Study of New York City Specialized High Schools
Chuanyi Tang - An Examination of Causal Relation between War and Crude Oil Price: Evidence from Iraq and Libya

2010-2011 Distinction Students

Alexander J. Brozdowski - The Effects of Trade Openness on Per Capita GDP during Banking Crises
Emily Alice Larson - Hurricane Katrina's Impact on Louisiana's Educational Systems
Mengchu Ye - Chinese Manufacturing Profits and Costs under the Economic Openness and the Labor Law Reform
Renyong Zhang - The Impacts of Regional Economic Agreements on the Trade of Agricultural Products: ASEAN FTA, NAFTA
Leyla Ziad - The Effects of Walmart on Healthcare and Unionization: Is America Really Saving Money and Living Better?
Melanie A. Zilora - Preventing Pandemics: Contributing Factors to Susceptibility During the H1N1 Pandemic

2009-2010 Distinction Students

Auyon Ghosh - Do CT Scans help prevent cancer-related deaths?
Scott Kuzdeba - Estimating the Effect of Terrorism on Stock Prices
Ann Dunnavan O'Neill - Chinese Job Growth and Workers' Injury Compensation in China
Rita M. Pattarini - The Influence of New Medications on Prescribing Behavior by Practice Type: A Regression Analysis
Drew Sullivan - The Interrelation of Box Office Results: How does one weekend's movie attendance affect the next?
Daniel Weistrop - The Effects of Winning a Basketball National Championship on Admission Factors

2008-2009 Distinction Students

Mallory McDermott - The Effect of Tuition on Higher Education Enrollment and Qualifications in England
John Rogers - The Effect of Compulsory Attendance Laws and Quarter Birth of Education and Returns on Education in the Labor Market
Benjamin Skomsky - Measuring the Effect of Conflict on Oil Production and Prices
Mallory Vachon - Effects of the European Union on Foreign Direct Investment
C. Wyatt Wolfram - Theory and Evidence on the Evolution of the Digital Music Industry

2007-2008 Distinction Students

Alexei Abrahams - The Economics of Fresh Water in the West Bank
Gustave A. Bartuska - Rehab or Relocation? Estimating the Demand for Cocaine through an American Port City Analysis
Mark Fegley - The 2005 Bankruptcy Policy and Real Estate Speculation
Marko Markov - The Shortfalls of Chinese Monetary Policy
Devin McBride - The Effect of Mall Development on American Cities: An Examination of Changes in Employment and Wages due to the Introduction of a Super-Regional Mall

2006-2007 Distinction Students

Jonathan Baselice - Salary Caps in Professional Sports: Do They Promote Competition Among Teams?
Stephanie Good - Does Assigned Attorney Type Matter for Indigent Defendants? Evidence from Selected Countries
Baker Gregory - The Price Elasticity of Demand for Tax Paid Cigarettes: A Comparison of Methods
Clay Rehrig - Earnings Effects of Sexual Orientation Revisited: Evidence from the Current Population Survey

2005-2006 Distinction Students

Amy Brundage - Bridging the Digital Divide: The Maine Learning Technology Initiative and Student Performance
Melissa Clune - Do PAC Contributions Buy Policy? The Case of CAFTA
Jeff Evans - Information for Profit: Can an Investing Strategy Based on Revisions in Earnings Estimates Earn Abnormal Returns?
Brian Hecht - Credit Card Interest Rates: Do Race and Gender Matter?
Christiane LaBonte - Do Children's Hospitals Have Lower Mortality Rates? Evidence from the 2003 Kids' Inpatient Database

2004-2005 Distinction Students

Nishad H. Majmudar - Credit Crunched: Does Bank Consolidation Harm the Small Business Borrower?
Brian McNeil - The College Football Gambling Market - An Empirical Approach
Paul W. Swartz - Is More Information Better? FOMC Press Releases and Internet Rate Expectations
Lok Y Yeung - Are Girls a Luxury in China?

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