Economics Undergraduate Honors Theses

Examples of honors theses written by Economics undergraduate students

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Fall 2022

"The Causal Effect of ACA Subsidies on Insurance Coverage Status Among California Adults" - William Vereyken
"Economic Impacts of Immigration Detention Centers Built Between 1990-2016 on U.S. Commuting Zones" - Ekaterina Yudina

Spring/Summer 2022

"The Impact of Indiv. Mandate on High-Income, Non-elderly Indiv. Health Insurance Coverage Rates and Racial/Ethnic Disparities" - YeJin Ahn
"An Economic Analysis of the 1997 Amhara Land Redistribution in Ethiopia" - Ezana Anley
"Affirmative Action's Effect on Educational and Wage Outcomes for Underrepresented Minorities" - Vishnu G. Arul
"Are the Effects of Racism Really That Black and White? A Study on the Effect Racism Has on the Productivity of Black Footballers in the Premier League" - Advik Banerjee
"An Empirical Analysis of Industrial Concentration and Prices: Can We Blame Inflation on Corporate Greed?" - Anton Bobrov
"Tax Revenue Cyclicality and Income Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Counties From 1989 to 2019" - Yiyang Chen
"The Impact of Economic Opportunities on African American Migration Patterns in Oakland" - Fernando Cheung
"Impact of Tech Companies on Wages in the Local Economy" - Niki Collette
"Warm Welcome: Evidence for Weather-based Projection Bias in College Choice" - Maria Cullen
"Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Bilateral Trade with China" - Pedro de Marcos
"Renaissance of the Black Homeowner: Impact Evaluation of Michigan's Renaissance Zones" - Rupsha Debnath
"Lockdown Blues: The Effect of Social Norms on the Psychological Cost of Unemployment During the COVID-19 Pandemic" - Dylan Hallahan
"How Education Affects Health Outcomes Across Genders" - Jessica Li
"Is Increasing Diversity Inclusion Effective in Improving Companies' Performance in the Financial Services Industry?" - Miranda Li
"The Future Financial Status of the Social Security Program" - Chloe Manouchehri
"Does Recreational Marijuana Legalization Affect Hard-Drug Use? - Evidence from Cocaine Prevalence and Treatment Admissions" - Arthur Weiss

Fall 2021

"Relationship Between Economic Status and Money Spent on Private Education Leading to Economic Inequality in South Korea" - Jiho Lee
"The Impact of Migrant Remittances on Rural Labor Supply: Evidence from Nepal" - Amanda Wong
"Confirmation Bias: The Role of Messages and Messengers" - Hongyu (Randol) Yao

Spring 2021

"Gender Equality and Economic Growth: Solving the Asian Puzzle" - Zoya Ali
"Women in STEM: Moving Up or Falling Off the Academic Career Ladder?" - Sophia J. Bai
"Time Dependence in Okun's Law at the State Level" - Sarah Baig
"Labor Regulation and the Impact on Firm Behavior in India" - Vatsal Bajaj
"Gender Representation in Academia: Evidence from the Italian Education System Reform" - Oyundari Batbayar
"Money & Marriage on the Elementary Mind: A High-Level Analysis of Inequitable Child Development in LA County" - Matthew J. Chang
"Unanticipated Unemployment Rate News on the Stock Market" - David Chi
"Should Physicians Be More Collaborative? Determining the Relationship Between Patient Participation and Treatment Plan Confidence Across a Spectrum of Illness Severity in the State of California" - Saif Chowdhury
"Modeling Optimal Investment and Greenhouse Gas Abatement in the Presence of Technology Spillovers" - Sabrina Chui
"Understanding the Influence of Marginal Income Tax Rates on Retirement Investment Habits" - Daniel Cohen
"Infrastructure in India's Internal War: A District-Level Analysis of the Naxalite-Maoist Conflict" - Krunal Desai
"Do Eucalyptus Trees Increase Wildfires?" - Lila Englander
"Understanding the Labor Outcomes of Hurricane Sandy" - Kevin Fang
"Does TikTok Show Viewers the Content Relevant to them?" - Ekaterina Fedorova
"The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Care Provision on Long-term Young Adult Labor Market Choices" - Anne Fogarty
"Orchestra Sex Disparity: Experimental Evidence from Audience Members" - Richard Gong
"The Big Three Medical Price Indexes: A Comparative Review and Analysis" - Robert Hovakimyan
"Effect of Value-Added-Services on Customer Reviews in a Platform Marketplace" - Shankar Krishnan
"COVID19 Recession: Gender Layoff Gap Explodes" - Ember Lin-Sperry
"The Gender Wage Gap in China: Learning from Recent Longitudinal Data" - Donghe Lyu
"Local Graduation Policies as a Tool for Increasing College Eligibility: Evidence from Los Angeles" - Dan L. Ma
"Trust in Government and Lockdown Compliance in Sub-Saharan Africa" - Charles McMurry
"I Do (or Don't): The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on International Tourism" - Oliver McNeil
"International Shipping Consequences of a Navigable Arctic" - Jack Melin
"Investigating Dollar Invoicing Trends Using United Kingdom Export Data" - Aneesh Nathani
"Micro-Level Impact of Initial Public Offerings on Bay Area Housing Inflation" - Mina Nezam-Mafi
"Explaining EU's Oil Dependency Through the Response of the Portuguese Sector Indexes to Brent Oil Prices Fluctuations" - Pedro S. Nunes
"Dynamic Incentives and Effort Provision in Professional Tennis Tournaments" - Ruiwen Pan
"Examining the Effects of Minimum Wage Laws on Part-Time Employment" - Odysseus Pyrinis
"The Great Indian Identity Crisis? Exclusions & Intersectionality in the Indian Aadhaar System" - Aditi Ramakrishnan
"The 'Clutch Gene' Myth: An Analysis of Late-Game Shooting Performance in the NBA" - Can Sarioz
"Estimating the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Jobs Within the Healthcare Industry" - Sidharth Satya
"Factors Influencing Telehealth Utilization: Evidence from California" - Emily Schultz
"Cash and Conflict: Evidence from the Indian Banknote Demonetization" - Nachiket Shah
"Determinants of the Number of Anti-Government Demonstrations: Evidence from OECD Countries" - Nina Singiri
"Hygiene Heroes: A Process Evaluation of Promoting Hygiene Practices in Tamil Nadu Schools" - Malika Sugathapala
"Exploring the Labour Patterns of Women and Mothers Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of School Closures and a New Kind of Recession" - Renee Isabel Utter
"How Have Socioeconomic Achievement Determinants Changed in the Past Decade for First-Generation Chinese Immigrants in the U.S." - Haolin Wang
"The Impact of Quarantining on School Enrollment: Evidence from the Ebola Epidemic in Sierra Leone" - David Willigrod
"Weeding out Needy Households and Welcoming the Better Off? Impacts of Transactional Barriers on SNAP Participation Rates" - Kevin Woo

Fall 2020

Spring/Summer 2020

"Parental Involvement: The Differential Impacts of Consent and Notice Requirements for Minors' Abortions" - Angela Ames
"Examining Local Price Levels and Income Distribution Over Time" - Josh Archer
"Estimating the Effect of Grandparent Death on Fertility" - Jason Chen
"Democracy in the Face of COVID-19: Have Less Democratic Countries Been More Effective at Preventing the Spread of This Pandemic ?" - Yi Chen
"Understanding the Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Indigenous People in Mexico" - Arushi Desai
"Microfinance and Payday Lending: Are they Solving a Problem or Creating One?" - Sophia Faulkner
"The Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy and Foreign Banks" - Noah Forougi
"Ride of Die? Metropolitan Bikeshare Systems and Pollution" - Sean Furuta
"Internet's Important Involvement in Information Industry Integration in Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana (and others): How the emerging internet affected the economic geography of the information industry" - Keming (Alex) Gao
"The Relationship between Economic Crises and Long-Run Wealth Inequality" - Renuka Garg
"Voter Bias in the Associated Press College Football Poll: Reconducting a 2009 study with new data in a $1 Billion-dollar industry that has seen significant changes in the past decade" - Brent Hensley
"Monopsony Exploitation in Major League Baseball: Using Wins Above Replacement to Estimate Marginal Revenue Product" - Jacob C. Hyman
"The Relationship Between Currency Substitution and Exchange Rate Volatility" - Jewon Ju
"Efficiency, Bias, and Decisions: Observations from a Sports Betting Exchange" - Alexander Kan
"The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Substance Use Disorder Treatment Utilization: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act" - Christy Kang
"Analyzing the Relationship between Personal Income Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality" - Gevorg Khandamiryan
"The Effects of Occupancy Taxes on the Short-Term Rental Market: Evidence from Boston" - Alan Liang
"Corporate Types and Bank Lending in Contractionary Era: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies" - Zishen Liu
"Financial Constraints on Student Learning: An Analysis of How Financial Stress Influences Cognitive Function in Children" - Simone Matecna
"The Effect of Workplace Inspections on Employment and Sales - A Regression Discontinuity Analysis" - Jeseo Park
"Lending Sociodynamics, Economic Instability, and the U.S. Farm Credit Crisis" - Erfan Samaei
"The Effect of Intangible Assets on Value Added: Evidence from microdata across small and large firms in Europe" - Tamara Sequeira
"Price Efficiency Differences Between Public and Private Utilities: An Empirical Analysis of US Electric Utilities" - Yechan Shin
"Effect of Campus Shootings on Academic Achievement: Examination of 2014 Isla Vista Killings" - Min Joo (Julie) Song
"First-Degree Price Discrimination: Evidence from Informal Markets in India" - Rishab Srivastava
"Who Benefits From Gentrification? A Case Study of Oregon Public High Schools" - Namrata Subramanian
"Estimating the Economic Impacts of Wealth Taxation in France" - Jeffrey Suzuki
"Transit-Oriented Development or Transit-Oriented Displacement? Evaluating the Sorting Effect of Public Transportation in Los Angeles County" - Yeeling Tse
"How State Abortion Policy Restrictiveness is Associated with Unintended Pregnancy Outcomes in the United States from 2014-2018" - Ruhee Wadhwania
"Global Food Security and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation" - Aidan Wang
"The Relationship Between Pharmaceutical R&D Spending and NME Development" - Taylor Wang
"The Role of Individual Risk Attitude in Occupational Inheritance" - Yi Wang
"Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from U.S. Janitorial Jobs Advertised in English and Spanish" - Zijun Xu
"Bias on the Brain: How Patient Gender Influences Use of Emergency Room Diagnostic Imaging" - Abigail Zhong

Fall 2019

"Age Effects, Irrationality and Excessive Risk-Taking in Supposedly Expert Agents" - William Aldred
"Pricing Disparities for Minority Communities in Chicago: Rideshares and Taxis" - Matthew Cleveland
"Where My Negros At? Evaluating the Effects of Banning Affirmative Action on Black College Enrollment" - Ellie Koepplinger
"Race and Recession: How Minorities May Affect Downturns" - Alexander Szarka
"Understanding the Effects of Canadian International Food Aid on Production and Trade" - Patrick D. Tagari
"Urban Property Rights and Labor Supply in Peru: Heterogeneity Analysis by Gender and Educational Attainment" - Juan Sebastián Rozo Vásquez
"Effect of High-Speed Rail on City Tourism Revenue in China: A Perspective on Spatial Connectivity" - Lingyun Xiao

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