The following 10 students from the Class of 2017 have earned the honors designation in the Economics Department after successfully completing their honors thesis (2 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)