2020 ECONOMICS HONORS THESIS PRESENTATIONS
All presentations will be via Zoom.
2020 Thesis Research Virtual Posters
Monday, May 18
9:00am Clayton Morikawa: “The Role of Grade Sensitivity in Explaining STEM Major Persistence Between High and Low SES Students”
10:00am Keileh Atulomah: “The Role of Charitable Giving in Reducing the Poverty Rate in the United States from 2000 to 2015”
1:00pm Brenda Xu: “The Effects of the Abbott Pre-K Program on District Outcomes and Demographics”
2:00pm Jacob Shuman: “Storms, Public Opinion, and the Partisan Divide on Environmental Legislation”
3:00pm Natalie Newton: “Did the Flood Wash Away the White Picket Fence? The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Dynamic Processes of Gentrification in New Orleans, LA”
4:00pm Spencer Allyn: “The Market Value for Art: As Seen with Computer Vision”
Tuesday, May 19
9:00am Summiya Najam: “Impact of Legal Interventions Against Child Labor: Empirical Evidence from Punjab’s Employment of Children Act of 2016”
10:00am Ahna Pearson: “Does Raising Grandchildren Shift the Timing of Old-Age Social Security Claims Among Grandparent Caregivers? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study”
11:00am Divya Wodon: “Regulating the Middlemen: An Analysis of Political Contributions, State Pharmacy Benefit Manager Legislation, and Prescription Drug Expenditures”
1:00pm Haoyu Sheng: “The Certification Game”
2:00pm Vijay Kadiyala: “Asset-Backed Security Design with Quality Signaling and Heterogeneous Investors”
3:00pm Hunter Wieman: “Minsky Revisited: A Rational Expectations Explanation of Endogenous Boom-Bust Cycles”
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