Honors Presentations

2019 ECONOMICS HONORS THESIS PRESENTATIONS

All presentations will be in Griffin 6.

Monday, May 13

9:00am Marianna Rodriguez: “Are Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Catching Up? Education Inequality in India”

9:45am Roxanne Corbeil: “Politics or Humanitarianism? Determinants of Aid Localization”

10:30am Robbie Dulin: “The Subnational Effect of Aid on Civil Conflict”

11:15am Nausherwan Abbasi: “Convergence in death rates? Evidence of the impact of railroads in spreading disease in colonial India”

1:00pm William Chen: “Asset Price Spillovers and Financial Stability in Small Open Economies”

1:45pm Panchanok Jumrustanasan: “The Effectiveness of Sterilized Foreign Exchange Intervention: Evidence for the Portfolio Balance Channel”

2:30pm Giulia Filocca: “The Impact of Capital Requirements on Italian Bank Lending”

3:15pm Jeremy Smith: “Globalization and Interprovincial Inequality in China”

4:00pm Alex Wartels: “Burned Bacon: The Effect of Auction Buy-ins on the Subsequent Sales Prices of an Artist’s Work”

4:45pm Henry Lee: “Financial Transactions Taxes and Market Volatility – The Case of Italy”

Tuesday, May 14

9:00am Josie Maynard: “Putting a Label on it: The Effects of Information and Political Identity on Energy Efficient Purchasing Decisions”

9:45am Arkey Barnett: “Race, Place, and the Private Economic Returns to Education in 1940 United States”

10:30am Adam Zoen: “More Pot, More Pills? The Effects of Recreational Cannabis Dispensaries on Opioid Overdose Mortality”

11:15am Coly Elhai: “Evaluating the Impacts of New Jersey’s Bail Reform”

1:00pm Betty Chen: “Gentrification and Social Frictions in New York City”

1:45am Rocky Douglas: “Reimagine: The Effect of the 2015 Houston METRO Network Reform on Access to Public Transit”

2:30pm Anand Butler: “Transportation Networks and Urbanization: Examining how the Presence of Major Transportation Shapes Urban Sprawl”

3:15pm Amy Qiu: “The Persistence of Institutions in the Long-Run Formation of Social Trust in Africa”

4:00pm Jad Hamdan: “When Rankings Matter: Using Ordinal Signals of Quality to Overcome Information Constraint in Student-College Match”