Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Economics Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2016
Anil Tomi Methipara, Economics (ECON) 2016, Income Inequality and Population Health Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Cause for Concern?
Florence Emily Pollard, Economics (ECON) 2016, The Relationship between Parent and Child Occupational Safety and Health Risk Levels in the African American Community
Emma Louise Russ, Economics (ECON) 2016, Higher Standards for Female Coaches: Gender Discrimination in Division I Women's College Basketball
Melanie Suzanne Taub, Economics (ECON) 2016, Who Pays for the ACA? The Differences in Compensation between Public and Private Sector Workers
Wing Hei Agnes Tse, Economics (ECON) 2016, Educational Mismatch, Wage Levels, and Wage Growth: A longitudinal analysis of the U.S. labor market
Erika Tyagi, Economics (ECON) 2016, The Effect of Mega-Events on Housing Prices: The 2012 London Summer Olympic
Jack Anthony Violetta, Economics (ECON) 2016, Entry-Level Productivity and Compensation: A Comparison between the National Hockey League and the National Basketball Association
Jessica Kate Weaver, Economics (ECON) 2016, Does the ACA Break Down Barriers to Self-Employment? A Predictive Model to Measure an Individual's Probability of Being Self-Employed in the Years 2008-2015
Dylan Meyer Wells, Economics (ECON) 2016, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Emerging and Frontier Economies
Jianxiong Yu, Economics (ECON) 2016, Country Risk During the Great Recession: Does Financial Development Matter?
Submissions from 2015
Nolan Baker, Economics (ECON) 2015, Can Students Be Motivated to Work Harder? Examining the Impact of Compensation Schemes on Test Performance
Seana Ellen Buzbee, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Mitigating Power of Socioeconomics: Alleviating Malnutrition's Effect on Cognitive Development in Developing Countries
Worthy Mbuza Cho, Economics (ECON) 2015, Institutions and Foreign Direct Invest during the 2007 to 2009 Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Developing World
Dane Liles Christensen, Economics (ECON) 2015, Transmission of Macroeconomic Shocks Within The European Union: An Analysis of Fiscal Imbalances and Spillover Effects
Jan Aldrich Larsen Dela Paz Dela Cruz, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Role of Expectations: Effects of Terrorist Campaigns Versus Isolated Terrorist Attacks on Economic Growth in South East Asia
Paul Issara Elbow, Economics (ECON) 2015, What was the impact of the Great Recession on worker groups in Thailand? A closer look at unemployment during the global financial crisis.
Sarah Marcellina Ellis, Economics (ECON) 2015, Do Nice Guys Actually Finish Last? Determinants of Game Attendance in the National Basketball Association
Louis Enriquez-Sarano, Economics (ECON) 2015, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY
Sam Garbrecht, Economics (ECON) 2015, Constraints on Healthy Eating Habits Among Low-Income Families: An Analysis of Time-Cost Effects
Graeme Harten, Economics (ECON) 2015, Foreign Currency Exposure: An Analysis of the 2014 Yuan Depreciation in China
Claire Marie Helsel, Economics (ECON) 2015, GIPSIs, Tramps, and Thieves: Perception and Bias as Additional Causes of the Euro-Periphery Sovereign Debt Crises
Benjamin Chung-Yu Huang, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Effects of Eurozone Membership on Sovereign Bond Yield Spreads for European Union Member States after the Global Financial Crisis
Jake Daniel Kramer, Economics (ECON) 2015, Production offshoring's impact on a common pool resource: an analysis of Germany and Russia
Kelsey Wynne Moede, Economics (ECON) 2015, Economic motivations in self-presentation strategies: an experiment on how online dating affects the presence of deception
Robert Asher Olney, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Growth Wall of China: A Study of Provincial Fertility, Mortality, and Income
Theodore Spring Retzloff, Economics (ECON) 2015, Be Careful What You Wish For: Competition, Profit Orientation, and Repayment Crisis in Microfinance
David Reiss Reynolds, Economics (ECON) 2015, An Examination of Health Savings Accounts' Effect on the Utilization of Healthcare
Samantha Suzanne Rix, Economics (ECON) 2015, Messing with Motivation
William Spencer Salon, Economics (ECON) 2015, Productividad y NAFTA: A Comparative Analysis of Mexico's Maquiladora Industry
Rachel Julia Schuh, Economics (ECON) 2015, Are Good Neighbors Good Insurance? The Role of Social Capital in Informal Mutual Insurance
Caitlin Mary Throne, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Helicopter Effect: Parental Participation's Impact on Academic Achievement in India
Devint Martin Tomson-Moylan, Economics (ECON) 2015, Content Villagers and Unhappy Urbanites: Exploring the Rural-Urban Happiness Divide
Shenlun Wang, Economics (ECON) 2015, Examining the effect of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Act on Bank Risks and Derivatives Risks
Shuchao Wang, Economics (ECON) 2015, To hoard, or not to hoard? Motives for reserve accumulation and its long-run economic consequences
Claire Hannah Willeck, Economics (ECON) 2015, Is Education the Key to Happiness? An Examination of the Impact of Educational Attainment on Female Life Satisfaction
Yue Zhang, Economics (ECON) 2015, Payment Method on Spending: The Impact of Payment Transparency on Consumer Behavior
Submissions from 2014
Michael Aaron Chappell, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Labor Market Effects of National Health Insurance: Evidence from Singapore
Jeffrey Andrew Dsida, Economics (ECON) 2014, Spend it Like Beckham
Joshua Estes, Economics (ECON) 2014, Does Scoring Matter? The Effects of Scoring on Team Revenue and and Player Salaries in the NBA
Daniel A. Geiger, Economics (ECON) 2014, An Empirical Study of the Relationship Between the New York Yankees World Series Performance and U.S. Equity Markets
Taylor Carl Hanson, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Impact of Contracts and Guaranteed Money on Production in the NBA
Michael Knutson Hovick, Economics (ECON) 2014, Examining the Flight-to-Quality Phenomenon in Europe during the Global Financial Crisis
Yuqing Lin, Economics (ECON) 2014, Exchange Rate Risk on Stock Market: Evidence from 2008 Financial Crisis
Micah Benjamin Muhr, Economics (ECON) 2014, Shooting to Win: An Analysis of the Effects of Team Performance Metrics on Winning in the NBA Playoffs and the Regular Reason
Joseph Herman Pedtke, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Effects of Fiscal Policy on Output during Different Periods of the Business Cycle: Evidence from the United States
Ha Thao Pham, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Effects of Personality on Wages in Germany
Cole Alexander Rystedt, Economics (ECON) 2014, Do Right-to-Work Laws Really Matter? An Analysis of Right-to-Work Legislation and its Impact on Union Membership
Yichen Shen, Economics (ECON) 2014, Interest Rate Pass-through and Capital Market Development: An Empirical Analysis
Danny William Shields, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Impact of the Competitive Balance Tax on Major League Baseball: Does the Luxury Tax actually work?
David Ascher Stillerman, Economics (ECON) 2014, Punishment Past the Cell: An Analysis of Employment and Earnings of Ex-Offenders
Tiantian Teng, Economics (ECON) 2014, The impact of national debt on economic growth
Huaiyu Wang, Economics (ECON) 2014, To Work or Not to Work: That is the question. An Intergenerational Approach to Female Labor Market Behavior
Cody James Young, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Federal Bailout of General Motors and Chrysler Fails to Improve Housing Prices in Proximate Municipal Economies
Submissions from 2013
Benjamin Raymond Bedore, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Behavioral Effects Of Early Intervention For Children From Low- Income Households
Gilah Benson-Tilsen, Economics (ECON) 2013, Air Quality and Health Outcomes in Washington State
Cooper Drew Buss, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Future of an Opiate Illusion: A Theory Based Empirical Analysis of Secularization
Charlie Carbery, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effect of a Congestion Charge on Public Cycle Hires: A London Case Study
Sam Nelson Espeland Carruthers, Economics (ECON) 2013, Buying the Green: A Hedonic Pricing Analysis of Hybrid Cars in the American Car Market
Katherine Logan Claiborne, Economics (ECON) 2013, Coal, Education, and Per Capita Income in Kentucky Counties, 1969-2011
Anna Helen Coonrod, Economics (ECON) 2013, Financing with the Stars: The Effects of Media on Financial Literacy and Financial Practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Daniel Michael Elder, Economics (ECON) 2013, How Has the University of Minnesota's New Stadium Affect Surrounding Housing Values
Tyler Randall Goetz, Economics (ECON) 2013, Role of the Border Effect in the Failure of the Law of One Price
Elise Corinne Gurney, Economics (ECON) 2013, Determining the Impacts of Local Food Movements on Large-Scale Trade Patterns for Agricultural Goods in the United States
Phillip Peter Juda, Economics (ECON) 2013, Are Public Utilities Really Greener?
Alice Lee Leno, Economics (ECON) 2013, Sources of Competition among Micro Finance Institutions: Political Institutions and Openness
Fay Xiao Li, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effects of Oil Price Shocks on Domestic Oil Firms and Alternative Energy Firms: an Event Study of the Persian Gulf War
Jens Richard Lillehei, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effect of Corruption and Government Institutions on the Size of Microfinance
Yurui Liu, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Balassa-Samuelson Effect and Cross-Regional Labor Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe
Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada, Economics (ECON) 2013, Resource Discovery Announcements: The Pre-Dutch-Disease Syndrome
Barbara Marchevsky, Economics (ECON) 2013, State of New York, et. al. v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: An Event Analysis of Impact on the Nuclear Industry
Adam Michael Miller, Economics (ECON) 2013, Are There Any Economic Benefits To Drinking? A Macro Study of Alcohol's Effects on Education, Income, and Life Expectancy
Sana Rafiq, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effect of Microfinance on Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Rural Thailand
Wenli Rui, Economics (ECON) 2013, A Microstructure Approach to Exchange Rate Determination in the Chinese Foreign Exchange Market
Adam Edward Scherling, Economics (ECON) 2013, Tipping the balance of innovation: Who takes advantage of intellectual property rights in developed and developing countries
Benjamin Geoffrey Southgate, Economics (ECON) 2013, LOOP and the Internet Marketplace
Kana Suzuki, Economics (ECON) 2013, How much more do people value safety? Estimating the impact of the March 2011 Fukushima disasters on residential land prices in Fukushima Prefecture
Scott Anthony Theisen, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Impact of Economic Development on Biodiversity
Maxwell Gustav Miller Timm, Economics (ECON) 2013, The impact of Eurasian watermilfoil on residential lakeshore property value in Washington County, MN
Jeremy Tilton Wadsworth, Economics (ECON) 2013, The 'Border Effect' Between the United States and Canada: The Role of Nominal Exchange Rate Variability in the Creation of Price Level Volatility
Submissions from 2012
Jacob K. Alcorn, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of Airport Noise A Spatial Investigation into the Relationship between Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport's Noise Pollution and Property Values
Linghao Chen, Economics (ECON) 2012, Real Exchange Rates and Commodity Prices
Ngoc Do, Economics (ECON) 2012, Attention Allocation, Financial Integration and Exchange Rate Volatility as Driving Forces for Home Equity Bias
William Lief Esbenshade, Economics (ECON) 2012, Choice and Policy Shocks in Minneapolis Public Schools
Erin Nur Gudul, Economics (ECON) 2012, Playing to Win, or Playing Not to Lose? The Prevalence of Loss Aversion at Wimbledon
Gnagna Lam, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of School Quality on House Values
Jonathan Marshall Lien, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of a Rule Change on the Strategies of NFL Return Teams
William Robert Moritz, Economics (ECON) 2012, Age and Performance on the PGA Tour
Patrick Philley, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of Professional Sports Franchise Relocations on Local Employment
Submissions from 2011
Louise Catherine Buckler, Economics (ECON) 2011, The Tiger Woods Effect: An Analysis of Tournament Performance When Competing Against a Superstar
Walton Chan, Economics (ECON) 2011, What Motivates CEOs to Work Harder for the Shareholders in the IT Industry?
Meghan Niketa Gajare, Economics (ECON) 2011, The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment Regulations on Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Nicholas Donald Holschuh, Economics (ECON) 2011, A Systematic Analysis of Potential Leading Indicators in the United States through Vector Autoregression
Sungwook Hwang, Economics (ECON) 2011, Leaving Classrooms for a More Employable Future
Taimur Ali Khan, Economics (ECON) 2011, Cointegration of International Stock Markets: An Investigation of Diversification Opportunities
Neil Kevin Kolstad, Economics (ECON) 2011, Foreign Aid and Economic Growth: Bilateral and Multilateral Aid Unconstrained
Katharine Marie Lindquist, Economics (ECON) 2011, Horizontal Educational Inequalities and Civil Conflict: The nexus of ethnicity, inequality, and violent conflict
Chang Liu, Economics (ECON) 2011, Commodity Prices Movements Forecasting: Time Series Analysis with Macroeconomic and Financial Factors
Sahil Mehra, Economics (ECON) 2011, An empirical analysis of the impact of membership in regional trading agreements on economic development
Hang Thi Viet Nguyen, Economics (ECON) 2011, Stock Returns and Expected Inflation: Measurement of Expected Inflation and the Evolution of the Relationship over Time
Tyler Palin, Economics (ECON) 2011, Forecasting the U.S. Unemployment Rate: The Impact of Stock Market Volatility
