Senior Essays Nominated for Prizes

1. Iris Li: A Causal Mediation Model on the Valuation Effects of Cross-Listings

2. Rock Zhu: Examining Pairs Trading Profitability

3. Alexa Loste: The Preprint Advantage: The Relationship of Preprinting and Downstream Knowledge Production in the Biomedical Sciences

4. Bilal Moin: In a State of Flux: The Economic Impact of State Splitting in India

5. Evan Hu: Social Interaction and Urban Inequality Across Space 

6. Harleen Kaur: Impact of availability of primary health facilities on mortality: Evidence from India

7. Jacob Wu: Investigating the Links between Firms' Green Behavior and Financial Performance

8. Kyle Shin: OLS Asymptotics Along Drifting Parameter Sequences for AR(2) Processes

9. Michaela Markets: Effect of Schooling Upon Arrival on Teen-Age Migrant Recent Arrivals to the United States

10. Tianyi Wang: Diverging Impacts of Jerome Powell’s March 22nd, 2023 Statements on U.S. Banks’ Stock Prices: An Alternative Lens Into the 2023 U.S. Regional Banking Crisis

1. Bruno Moscarini: Skewed Uninsurable Income Risk in Incomplete Market Economies
2. Ayumi Sudo: Effect of childcare needs on parents labor supply: Evidence from remote schooling during the Covid-19 pandemic
3. Tilden Chao: When the Dust Settles: How Cleaning Up America's Most Toxic Sites Affects Renters and Homeowners
4. Crystal Wang: Police Brutality and 911 Calls
5. Rosa Kleinman: Transaction Costs and the Take-up of Social Safety Net Programs: Evidence from the Combined Application Project
6. Aaron Dickstein: The Impact of Economic Conditions on Decision-Making: Evidence from Retail Stock Trading
7. Sarah Moon: Partial Identification of Individual-Level Parameters Using Aggregate Data in a Nonparametric Binary Outcome Model
8. Sasha Thomas: Consumption Inequality Within Households: An Analysis on Budget Allocations and Resource Shares in the UK
9. Michael Ning: Linkages between Venture Capital and Public Markets, and Venture Capital Cyclicality 
10. Noah Friedlander: Regressive As Well As Unequal?
11. Raphael Berz: The evaluation of the Nutrition North Canada subsidy and implications in imperfectly competitive and remote communities
12. Justin Ye: Trust, Insurance, and Demand in Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Evidence From the Short-Term Rental Market

1. Jack Hirsch: Optimal Auction Mechanisms in the Presence of Regret
2. Kamila Janmohamed: Estimating Policy Effects With Staggered Implementation and Multiple Periods: Another Look at Family Caps
3. Brian Zhu: Regime-switching factor models with applications to portfolio selection and demand estimation
4. Michael Barresi: Unilateral Carbon Policies and Multilateral Coalitions An Analysis of Coalition Stability under the Optimal Unilateral Policy
5. Kueho Choi: Unemployment Insurance and Job Quality:Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
6. Jack Kelly: Who Benefits from Multiple Choice(s)? : The Equilibrium Impacts of Test-Optional Admissions
7. Aiden Lee: The Motherhood Penalty: Assessing the Labor Market Effects of Childcare Closures During the COVID-19
8. Salma Shaheen: The Impact of Violent Political Conflict on Child Labor: Evidence from the Palestinian Territories

1. Marley Finley: Girls Who Code: A Randomized Field Experiment on Gender-Based Hiring Discrimination

2. Rohan Garg: Should Central Banks Lend to Local Governments in Times of Crisis? Evidence from the Federal Reserve’s Covid-19 Municipal Liquidity Facility

3. Lauren Harris: Estimating Excess Female Attrition From STEM Occupations

4. Adrian Kulesza: Transportation Infrastructure and Knowledge Diffusion

5. Hannah Moreno: Effect of Romania’s E.U. Accession on Regional Emigration and Development

6. Teodora Tyankova: Demystifying the Economic Impact of the Refugee Crisis: An Analysis of Revenues and Expenditures Associated With Refugee Flows and Stocks into Bulgaria

7. Lucy Zhu: California’s Three Strikes Law Reformed: What Happens to Crime Rates When Stealing a Slice of Pizza No Longer Means Life Behind Bars

1. Narek Alexanian: The Equilibrium Impact of Robots on Labor Markets
2. David Adelberg:  Text-Based Factor Models of Equity Prices
3. Sarah Hamerling:  Information, Insurance, and Interaction: The Municipal Bond Market after the Monolines
4. Sienna Gough:  Evidence and Explanations for the Reversal of the Conditional Jumbo-Conforming Mortgage Rate Spread
5. Jacquelyn Du:  Examining the Effect of Stress on Decision Making Under Risk and Ambiguity
6. Zona Zhang:  Leverage Divergence between the State-owned Sector and the Private Sector in China
7. Anthony Deaconn:  A Dynamic Programming Model for U.S. Energy Security

1. Saul Downie: UBERING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: The Impact of Ridesharing on Drunk Driving
2. Martin Lim: Estimating the Effect of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on DREAMers
3. Kevin Huang: The Regional and Sectoral Consequences of Leaving NAFTA
4. Jinchen Zou: A Program Treading Water: Measuring the Eect of Changes in National Flood Insurance Program Premiums on Houston Housing Markets
5. Neeraj Shekhar: A Belief-Based Model of Investor Trading Behavior
6. Harry Browne: Braving the Uncharted Sea: Effects of the IOER – ON RRP Spread on the Federal Funds Market and Overnight Reverse Repurchase Facility
7. Eliot Levmore: Approximate Vickrey Auctions
8. Tijana Stanic: The Effect of the Sunshine Act on Industry Payments to Physicians in Orthopedic Surgery and Other Surgical Specialties
9. Hannah Yang: Wealth Inequality between Americans: Exploring Recent Trends in the Racial Wealth Gap

1. Anna Russo: A Head Start for the Whole Family: Assessing the Labor Supply Response of Mothers of Head Start Participants*
2. Amen Jalal: The Targeting Performance and Short-Term Welfare Effects of Female Income Support Programs: Evidence from Pakistan**
3. Neha Anand: Investing in the Womb: Identifying Gender Discrimination Through the Lens of Parental Ultrasound**
4. Alicia Borja Alvarez: Did Central Clearing of Interest Rate Products Impact Market Activity?***
5. Katherine Bradley: Relative and Absolute Income Mobility Variation in the United States: 1968-1997
6. Andrew Brod: Education and Wage-Based Statistical Discrimination
7. Alexis Henkel: The Effect of Acquisitions on Pharmaceutical Drug Prices
8. Amelia Ricketts: Using the Green Card Marriage to Model Demand for United States Immigrant Visas
9. Adam Harris: Economic Geography and Deportation
10. Shane Kim: Dutch Auctions and Reserve Prices: A Field Experiment on the Internet
11. Gabriel Pombal-Fritsch: Are Government Spending Multipliers State Dependent? Evidence from U.K. Historical Data
12. Michael Wang: Flu Vaccines on College Campuses: Survey of Challenges and Local Intervention
13. Philip Groenwegen: Squatting, Sniping, and online Strategy: Analyzing Early and Late Bidding in eBay Auctions
14. William Van Fossen: The Effect of Supermarket Entrance on Nearby Residential Property Values in the United States from 1997 to 2015
15. Daniel Giraldo: Taxation and Migration: Evidence from Major League Baseball
16. Zhuohan Li: Do Legislators Consider the Economic Vulnerability of their Constituents when Liberalising Trade? An Empirical Examination of the Voting Record on NAFTA

* Indicates the Dickerman Prize recipient
** Indicates the Ronald Meltzer/Cornelia Awdziewicz Economic Award recipients
*** Indicates the Ellington Prize recipient

1. Adrian Rodrigues: Panacea or Pariah: The Labor Market Returns of Private For-profit Institutions and Community Colleges
2. Anthony Tokman: Crime and the Geography of the City: Measuring the Effect of Crime on Urban Residential Patterns
3. Apsara Iyer: Agricultural and Mining Labor Interactions in Peru:A Long-Run Perspective (1571-1812)
4. Avery Schwartz: Arbitrage in the European Soccer Betting Market
5. Darien Lee: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE: Disincentive Effects on Job Search in the Great Recession
6. Edward Kong: Estimating Competitive Effects in Firm Entry with Applications in the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry
7. Hugh Sullivan: Environmental News and Noise in Financial Markets: Event Studies Concerning the Effect of Environmental Performance on Financial Performance
8. Jason Brown: Analyzing the Long-Term Performance of Activist Targets
9. Jeffrey Guo: Regional Differences in Consumer Confidence, Consumption, and Employment: 2001-2014
10. Jonathan Lam: Robo-Advisors: A Portfolio Management Perspective
11. JP DeOliveira: Is There a Case for a Brazilian Exit from the Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR)? A Quantitative Assessment of Policy Options
12. Kenza Bouhaj: The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993: Impact on Female Employment and Income
13. Maia Eliscovich Sigal: Socioeconomic Effects of Oil Drilling: The Case of Ecuador
14. Siqi Wang: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND ENTRY DECISIONS: A Study of the Retail Home Improvement Sector from 2005-2011