Honors Thesis Students
2025
Shane Gao: Heterogenous Effects of Minimum Wage Policies: Evidence from California Countries Using Synthetic Control Methods
Siyu Ma: The Performance of U.S. Firms of Different Sizes During Economic Crises: A Financial and Employment Perspective
Anne Mckenna: The Amazon Effect: How Corporate Entry Shapes Unionization in Local Labor Markets
Sam Schick: The Effect of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Development on Rent Burdens
Quinn Wang: The Impact of Index-Based Drought Insurance on Smallholder Farmers' Input Expenditures in Rural Bangladesh
2023
Luc Chen: Student Future Academic Performance after Being Placed on Dean's List
Sophie Dewees: The Impact of Private Education on Post-Secondary Outcomes
Ken Fesler: Impact of Local Industrial Composition on College Major Choice
Youngyun Kim: Impact of COVID-19 Recession and Remote Working Flexibility on Female Labor Market During the Recession Recovery
Minsheng Nie: COVID-19 Pandemic and Biotech Startup Creation
Burak Ozturk: The Effect of Sunshine in Manhattan on the NYSE Composite Index's Daily Returns
Matthew Snyder: Healthy Minds and Healthy Schooling: The Impact of Special Education Mental Health Spending on Student Outcomes
Ziyi Zeng: The Unintended Impact of the 2016 Presidential Election on the International Student
2022
Jade Elkins: Internet Access and the Labor Force during Covid
Carl Germann: The Effectiveness of an ETS versus a Carbon Tax
Oliver Hannaoui: Back to School: The Impact of Financial Aid on Nontraditional College Students
Jacob Herbstman: Does Prenatal Medicaid Improve Infant Health Outcomes? A Machine Learning Approach
Luke Wangness: Medicaid and Mobility: Investigating the Welfare Magnet Hypothesis Using US state Medicaid Program Expansions
Adam Vogel: Determining the Effectiveness of Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy Programs in Promoting Residential Solar Panel Adoption
Xinyuan Wang: The Impact of Environmental Policies on Firm's Profitability
2021
Tomer Fidelman: Income Inequality and Asset Price Bubbles
Zhengqian (Ariel) He: Governance in Economic Recovery
Katie Laursen: The Effect of Pollution on Voter Turnout
Shannon Meyer: Tariff Uncertainty, International Productivity, US Manufacturing Employment
Vanessa Nguyen: Can Woman "Have it All?" Can Anyone?
Cecilia Rodarte: The Impact of A-G Reform in California
Xianzheng (Xian) Sun
2020
Lucas Epstein: Determinants and Predictions of Elections to Increase Gasoline Taxes
Stephanie Lu: A State-Level Analysis of Household Debt and Income Inequality
Shuohia Fu: Factors Influencing Carbon Emissions in Provinces of China
Alyssa Parr: Effects of Abortion Clinic Closures in Texas on the Female Labor Supply and Schooling Outcomes
Aydin Scwartz: The Effect of Requiring Students to Apply for Financial Aid at California Community Colleges
2019
Sheila Jamshidi: The Effect of Minimum Wage on Employment Probabilities and Average Hours of Work: Does the Effect Differ Based on Gender?
Kusha Gupta: Peer Effects of Ranking and Prediction Model
Mira Pranav: Dealing in Discounts: Second-Degree Price Discrimination and Competition in the Brazilian Rental Car Industry
Kristen Cui: The Effect of Computers in the Classroom and School
Jianfeng Zhang: Income Inequality between Urban and Rural Residency in China
Betty Wu: The Invisible Victims: The Long-Term Educational Impacts of Growing up in Recessions
2018
James Newbre: The Effect of Time-To-Degree on Labor Market Outcomes
Cristina Skandalis: The Impact of Gender Quotas on Female Labor Market Indicators
Qiaoying Yuan: The Effect of the Chinese 9-year Compulsory Education Policy on Household Consumption Behaviors
Matt Dimon: What do Collectors Want? The Effect of Aesthetics Versus Functionality on Secondary Market Prices for Collectibles
Tiffany Jiang: Using Machine Learning to Analyze Merger Activity
Qiuyun Lin: Do Welfare Distribution Methods Changing from Cash Payment to Digital Transfer Influence Drug Abuse Problem?
2017
Brian Lee: Does Economic Success Reduce Corruption? Evidence from Egypt
Thomas Smith: Can Macroeconomic Conditions Affect Enrollments in Higher Education? A Study of U.S. College Enrollment Rates From 2002-2014
Yuren Zhang: A New Look on Athletes’ MRP Study of NBA Players’ Salary and Performance
Phuc Than Luong: Time-of-Day Effect on Academic Achievement of Adolescents
Yuwei Chen: Affordable Care Act: Studying its Local Impact at Thresholds of Benefit Qualifications
Konrad Franco: Lower Tail Earnings Inequality and Crime
Emily Kaar: Effect of Implementation of Common Core
Shane Gao: Heterogenous Effects of Minimum Wage Policies: Evidence from California Countries Using Synthetic Control Methods
Siyu Ma: The Performance of U.S. Firms of Different Sizes During Economic Crises: A Financial and Employment Perspective
Anne Mckenna: The Amazon Effect: How Corporate Entry Shapes Unionization in Local Labor Markets
Sam Schick: The Effect of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Development on Rent Burdens
Quinn Wang: The Impact of Index-Based Drought Insurance on Smallholder Farmers' Input Expenditures in Rural Bangladesh
2023
Luc Chen: Student Future Academic Performance after Being Placed on Dean's List
Sophie Dewees: The Impact of Private Education on Post-Secondary Outcomes
Ken Fesler: Impact of Local Industrial Composition on College Major Choice
Youngyun Kim: Impact of COVID-19 Recession and Remote Working Flexibility on Female Labor Market During the Recession Recovery
Minsheng Nie: COVID-19 Pandemic and Biotech Startup Creation
Burak Ozturk: The Effect of Sunshine in Manhattan on the NYSE Composite Index's Daily Returns
Matthew Snyder: Healthy Minds and Healthy Schooling: The Impact of Special Education Mental Health Spending on Student Outcomes
Ziyi Zeng: The Unintended Impact of the 2016 Presidential Election on the International Student
2022
Jade Elkins: Internet Access and the Labor Force during Covid
Carl Germann: The Effectiveness of an ETS versus a Carbon Tax
Oliver Hannaoui: Back to School: The Impact of Financial Aid on Nontraditional College Students
Jacob Herbstman: Does Prenatal Medicaid Improve Infant Health Outcomes? A Machine Learning Approach
Luke Wangness: Medicaid and Mobility: Investigating the Welfare Magnet Hypothesis Using US state Medicaid Program Expansions
Adam Vogel: Determining the Effectiveness of Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy Programs in Promoting Residential Solar Panel Adoption
Xinyuan Wang: The Impact of Environmental Policies on Firm's Profitability
2021
Tomer Fidelman: Income Inequality and Asset Price Bubbles
Zhengqian (Ariel) He: Governance in Economic Recovery
Katie Laursen: The Effect of Pollution on Voter Turnout
Shannon Meyer: Tariff Uncertainty, International Productivity, US Manufacturing Employment
Vanessa Nguyen: Can Woman "Have it All?" Can Anyone?
Cecilia Rodarte: The Impact of A-G Reform in California
Xianzheng (Xian) Sun
2020
Lucas Epstein: Determinants and Predictions of Elections to Increase Gasoline Taxes
Stephanie Lu: A State-Level Analysis of Household Debt and Income Inequality
Shuohia Fu: Factors Influencing Carbon Emissions in Provinces of China
Alyssa Parr: Effects of Abortion Clinic Closures in Texas on the Female Labor Supply and Schooling Outcomes
Aydin Scwartz: The Effect of Requiring Students to Apply for Financial Aid at California Community Colleges
2019
Sheila Jamshidi: The Effect of Minimum Wage on Employment Probabilities and Average Hours of Work: Does the Effect Differ Based on Gender?
Kusha Gupta: Peer Effects of Ranking and Prediction Model
Mira Pranav: Dealing in Discounts: Second-Degree Price Discrimination and Competition in the Brazilian Rental Car Industry
Kristen Cui: The Effect of Computers in the Classroom and School
Jianfeng Zhang: Income Inequality between Urban and Rural Residency in China
Betty Wu: The Invisible Victims: The Long-Term Educational Impacts of Growing up in Recessions
2018
James Newbre: The Effect of Time-To-Degree on Labor Market Outcomes
Cristina Skandalis: The Impact of Gender Quotas on Female Labor Market Indicators
Qiaoying Yuan: The Effect of the Chinese 9-year Compulsory Education Policy on Household Consumption Behaviors
Matt Dimon: What do Collectors Want? The Effect of Aesthetics Versus Functionality on Secondary Market Prices for Collectibles
Tiffany Jiang: Using Machine Learning to Analyze Merger Activity
Qiuyun Lin: Do Welfare Distribution Methods Changing from Cash Payment to Digital Transfer Influence Drug Abuse Problem?
2017
Brian Lee: Does Economic Success Reduce Corruption? Evidence from Egypt
Thomas Smith: Can Macroeconomic Conditions Affect Enrollments in Higher Education? A Study of U.S. College Enrollment Rates From 2002-2014
Yuren Zhang: A New Look on Athletes’ MRP Study of NBA Players’ Salary and Performance
Phuc Than Luong: Time-of-Day Effect on Academic Achievement of Adolescents
Yuwei Chen: Affordable Care Act: Studying its Local Impact at Thresholds of Benefit Qualifications
Konrad Franco: Lower Tail Earnings Inequality and Crime
Emily Kaar: Effect of Implementation of Common Core
