The following 10 students from the Class of 2017 have earned the honors designation in the economics department after successfully completing their honors thesis (two of which earned high honors):
Annie Conway
“The Impact of Charter School Laws Strength on School Closures”
(Faculty Sponsor: Yang Song)
Emily Gu
“The International Transmission of the US Monetary Policy Shock”
(Faculty Sponsor: Richard Higgins)
Gina Joseph
“The effects of India’s Panchayati Raj Institutions on child marriage”
(Faculty Sponsor: Carolina Castilla)
Troy Kelly
“Effects of TV Contracts on NBA Salaries”
(Faculty Sponsor: Benjamin Anderson and Carolina Castilla)
Meagan Klebanoff
“Analyzing the Effect of the Common Fisheries Policy on the UK’s Fishing Industry: Better with Brexit?”
(Faculty Sponsor: Bob Turner)
Kayla Oliver
“Accounting for Hysteresis: Incorporating Invariant Output Targeting into the Three Equation Model”
(Faculty Sponsor: Tom Michl and Carolina Castilla)
Santa Ramirez Rijo
“Effects of Violence Prevention and Attention Units on prevalence and perceptions of intimate partner violence in the Dominican Republic”
(Faculty Sponsor: Carolina Castilla)
Ieva Steponaviciute
“Carbon Pricing in Input and Export Markets: Multinational Firms and Carbon Leakage using Bernard et al’s Model of Global Firms”
(Faculty Sponsor: Bob Turner and Richard Klotz)
Irene Zhao
“The Role of Money in a Real Business Cycle in an Open Economy”
(Faculty Sponsor: Richard Higgins)
Zoe Zhong
“Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes: Is Culture Relevant?”
(Faculty Sponsor: Carolina Castilla and Yang Song)