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 2023
Sam Blair, Economics (ECON) 2023, International R&D Spillovers, Trade, and Welfare
Robert Breyer, Economics (ECON) 2023, The October 2019 Conundrum: Testing How Zero-Commission Trading Has Influenced Market Efficiency
Anders Brodnax, Economics (ECON) 2023, How the Paycheck Fairness Act Would Reduce the Gender Wage Gap
Isabella Cha, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Case For Paid Maternity Leave: Reducing Inequities Between Low-Income and High-Income Women
Susan Charlie, Economics (ECON) 2023, Overturning Roe v. Wade: Economic Implications of Abortion Access on Women
Thomas Chown, Economics (ECON) 2023, How Economies Recover from the Shocks of War
Maya Donovan, Economics (ECON) 2023, Choosing Living & Care Arrangements: Informal Care Receipt and the Decision to Enter a Nursing Home
Charlotte Drake, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Impact of Landlord Type on Housing Insecurity: Evidence from Corporate and Individual Owners in the New York City Rental Housing Market
Aarnie Dushime, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Effect of the Liberalization of African Airline Markets on the Development of African Economies
Will Fleming, Economics (ECON) 2023, How Does Zoning Impact Affordable Housing? What Can Be Done To Better Achieve Affordable Housing Goals?
Alex Gallin, Economics (ECON) 2023, Does the Federal Reserve Have an Advantage When Forecasting Housing Data?
Sam Gloss, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Effect of Parental Leave Policy on Children's Outcomes and Reommendations for Optimization with respect to Childhood Development
Darius Goodman, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Quality of Life from Being Pro-Life: Analyzing the Impact of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade on the Economic Lives of Black Women
Ben Jeweler, Economics (ECON) 2023, Wind Turbines and Property Values: Disamenity Costs in New Brunswick, Canada
Maya Kalmus, Economics (ECON) 2023, Gender Bias in Promotion Rates in the United States
Connor Kelly, Economics (ECON) 2023, The effects of Microfinance on poverty in Central Ghana
Brad Lee, Economics (ECON) 2023, Local Zoning Laws: The Cause or The Cure to The Affordable Housing Crisis
Elise Lehman, Economics (ECON) 2023, Improving the Economic Position of American Women Through a Nationally Protected Abortion and Contraception Policy
Rhys Lewis, Economics (ECON) 2023, Does the Median Income of a Locality Have an Effect on the Degree to which its Food Needs are Addressed? Evidence from the Washington DC Area
Sachit Mallya, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Impact of the Type of Loan Borrowed on Intrahousehold Financial Decision-Making: An Insight Into Female Entrepreneurship in India
Sydney Mone, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Effect of a Country’s Healthcare System on their Population’s COVID-19 Attitudes and Outcomes
Beck Page, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Role of Zoning in the Affordable Housing Crisis
Kevin Phung, Economics (ECON) 2023, How does the Federal Open Market Committee’s Press Conference affect various asset returns: A Machine Learning Approach
Trent Ramirez, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Boric Effect: An Analysis on the Impact of Political Events on Chilean Stock Returns
Keaton Schuelke, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Market Needs the Meat: The effects of the 2017 Brazilian Meat Scandal
Irene Sullivan, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Effects of Mental Health on Labor Market Consistency Across Racial Groups
Bahar Tas, Economics (ECON) 2023, From Parliamentary to Presidential System: Turkey’s Stock Market Response
Cameron Velasquez, Economics (ECON) 2023, Potential Solutions to the Hold-Out Problem in the Context of Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Eleazar Villagomez, Economics (ECON) 2023, Rethinking Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Bryson Walker, Economics (ECON) 2023, Remittance Volumes and Transaction Costs; Sensitivity Under Different Economic Environments
Alex Washburn, Economics (ECON) 2023, Changes in Environmental Amenity Values during and after COVID-19 Lockdowns in Ramsey County, Minnesota
Clark Webster, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Effect of Technological Advancements on the Racial Wage Gap Senior Integrative Exercise
Patrick Wolesky, Economics (ECON) 2023, Opening the Doors for Opportunity: Reimagining Inclusionary Zoning and Affordable Housing Policies in Major American Cities
Matt Wyffels, Economics (ECON) 2023, Solutions to the Affordable Housing Crisis
Submissions from 2022
Walter Boero, Economics (ECON) 2022, Mergers in the U.S. Airline Industry: How are Wages and Employment Affected at the Occupation Level?
Gengyi (Rebecca) Chen, Economics (ECON) 2022, Prolonged Pollution Days in China: How Does Air Pollution Duration Affect Subjective Well-Being (SWB)?
Marco Cunha, Economics (ECON) 2022, The Economic Case For Regulating Retail Investment
Vinicius d'Avila, Economics (ECON) 2022, The Effects of Airport Privatizations on Brazilian Airports’ On-Time Performance
Paige Ehresmann, Economics (ECON) 2022, One Currency, Nineteen Economies: An Exploration of Euro Area Countries’ Responses to Shared Monetary Policy
Andrew Griffin, Economics (ECON) 2022, Tiebout: Is it the Super Bowl Quarterback for the School Choice Movement?
Delina Haileab, Economics (ECON) 2022, The Intersection Between the Minimum Wage, Recidivism, and the Illegal Labor Market
Paul Hinton, Economics (ECON) 2022, Early Childhood Intervention and Income Inequality: An Analysis on the Intergenerational Mobility of Head Start Participants
Lilian Hurtubise, Economics (ECON) 2022, Monetary Policy Spillovers into Small Open Economies: The United States vs. The Euro Area
Maya Jensen, Economics (ECON) 2022, Credit Source and Consumption in Mongolia: Do Microloans and Informal Loans Impact Consumption Differently?
Leah Johnson, Economics (ECON) 2022, The Urban and Rural Divide: Co-residence and Female Labor Supply in Brazil
Gabriel Keane, Economics (ECON) 2022, U.S. Military Spending: Developing or Destroying
David Krakaur, Economics (ECON) 2022, Skill-biased Technical Change As A Source Of Income Inequality: An Investigation Of Changes In Wage Returns To Job Tasks In The 21st Century
Carl Marvin, Economics (ECON) 2022, Evaluating the Paycheck Fairness Act: Do Not Let Perfect Be the Enemy of Good
Emmanuel Morales, Economics (ECON) 2022, Understanding Remittances: How the 2008 Financial Crisis Affected the Impact of Remittances
Myat Thant Sin Naing, Economics (ECON) 2022, Social Institutions and Economic Growth
Kellan Pinson, Economics (ECON) 2022, Regulating The Retail Investor
Eesha Shah, Economics (ECON) 2022, Investment in Secondary Education Combats Income Inequality for Low and Middle Income Countries While Preserving Growth
Becky Shapiro, Economics (ECON) 2022, Morality and Salary: are laborers willing to take a pay cut to do work in line with their philosophy?
Jacob Small, Economics (ECON) 2022, Remittances as a Replacement for Government Transfer Programs: A Mexican Case Study
Aubrey Thurman, Economics (ECON) 2022, The Relationship Between Social Infrastructure and Female Labor Force Participation Across Countries
Amadou Tine, Economics (ECON) 2022, Will Investment in Human Capital Reduce Income Inequality?
Max Vale, Economics (ECON) 2022, Analyzing The Paycheck Fairness Act As A Solution For the Gender Wage Gap
Frank Valtierrez, Economics (ECON) 2022, The Impact of Human Capital Investment on Income Inequality and Economic Growth
Mitchell Wang, Economics (ECON) 2022, Understanding Ethereum as a Financial Asset for Common Investors
Eric Wright, Economics (ECON) 2022, Heterogeneous Effects of Commuter Rail Lines on Housing Prices
Louis Ye, Economics (ECON) 2022, AN ECONOMIC CASE FOR REGULATION ON MEME STOCKS
Submissions from 2021
Hugo Caplow, Economics (ECON) 2021, Exploring the Gender Dimensions of Remittances Through a Intra-Household Bargaining Based Approach: The Case of the Philippines
Elizabeth Franchot, Economics (ECON) 2021, Age and Negative Framing: Pitting Influences of Altruism Against Each Other
Conor Gormally, Economics (ECON) 2021, Does Framing Impact the Power of Social Information on Charitable Giving?
Sarah Grier, Economics (ECON) 2021, Valuing Maternal Health in the Economic Analysis of Maternity Leave
Cindy Guo, Economics (ECON) 2021, The Economic Case for Paid Family Leave: A Policy Paper with a Focus on Child Outcomes
Nia Harris, Economics (ECON) 2021, The Impact of Changes in the Federal Funds Rate on Stock Returns: Portfolios Sorted by Size and Book-to-Market Equity Ratio
Sarah Hussain, Economics (ECON) 2021, The Intersection of Gender Norms and Intra-Household Bargaining Power: Evidence from Garment Workers in Bangladesh
Waleed Iftikhar, Economics (ECON) 2021, Democracies and Dictatorships: Variance in the Impact of IMF Adjustment Programs across Different Regime Types
Jack Johnson, Economics (ECON) 2021, Shrinking the Tax Gap: Combining Research on Tax Evasion and Lying Aversion
Marko Jurkovich, Economics (ECON) 2021, The Effect of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment on Immigrant Income in Spain
Rie Kurita, Economics (ECON) 2021, Decreasing Tax Evasion: Effective Use of Lying Aversion
Spencer Moore, Economics (ECON) 2021, “You get what you pay for”: An Experimental Study on Worker Productivity and Pay Structures
Leo Vithoontien, Economics (ECON) 2021, The Impact of Immigrants on Local Native Wages Across Industries and Prefectures in Japan 2014-2018
Submissions from 2020
Iris Arbogast, Economics (ECON) 2020, A “Slippery Slope” to Higher Labor Supply Inequality in Mexico, Indonesia, and Brazil
Noam Benkler, Economics (ECON) 2020, Do Biometric Smartcards Help the Neediest Most?
Henry Bensen, Economics (ECON) 2020, Is the Democrat versus Republican Macroeconomic Performance Gap Explainable?
Adam Bigelow, Economics (ECON) 2020, Non-Western Technology Intensity of Use and Long Run Productivity Gains
Kanin Bunajinda, Economics (ECON) 2020, Consumption Smoothing in Russia: An Achievement of Mutual Insurance, or a Byproduct of Savings and Loans
Joey Caradimitropoulo, Economics (ECON) 2020, Toward a World of Cost Efficiency: The Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Human Labor Demand
Michael Carlsen, Economics (ECON) 2020, Whether Weather Affects Growth: A Panel Analysis of Quarterly Weather Anomalies and U.S. GDP
Ana Carretero, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Most Livable City in America: Investigating the Value of Green Open Space in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Ben Chesler, Economics (ECON) 2020, Industrial Revolutions: Fourth Verse Same as the First? A Brave New World of Unknowns
Vicente Cortes, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Return of the Luddites: Labor Market Implications of Projected Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Ingrid Dai, Economics (ECON) 2020, Eliminating Homelessness: An Evaluation of the Minneapolis 2040 Plan
Phil Gagnon, Economics (ECON) 2020, Does Airbnb Presence Increase Rental Values? Evidence from Portland, Oregon Neighborhoods
Sharan Ganjam, Economics (ECON) 2020, Minneapolis 2040: An Incomplete Roadmap to Housing Supply and Affordability?
Malik Gibson, Economics (ECON) 2020, First Among “Equals:” An Analysis of Gendered Differential Human Capital Investments by Parents in India
Peter Hagstrom, Economics (ECON) 2020, Artificial Intelligence and the Displacement of High-Skilled Labor
Oskar Houck, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Effect of Light Rail Network Expansion on Single-Family Homes in St. Paul, MN
Zane Johann, Economics (ECON) 2020, Health, Subjective Well-Being, and Development: An Analysis of the Effect of Development Level on How Health Impacts Life Satisfaction
Ben Koppel, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Effect of Local Elementary School “Quality” on Housing Value
Carlos Lua Pineda, Economics (ECON) 2020, Analyzing the Combination Effect of Corruption and Administration Type on Education
Anesu Masakura, Economics (ECON) 2020, Investigating the Interaction Effects of Social Polarization and Institutional Quality on Economic Growth
Peter Ohashi, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Environmental Kuznet's Curve: What About Those Other Gasses?
Colin Pi, Economics (ECON) 2020, Who Wants Microloans? Dynamics of Demand for Microfinance Loans with Different Occupational Forms
David Roizin, Economics (ECON) 2020, Is Inclusionary Zoning Right for Minneapolis? Theory and Evidence for a Growing City
Andrew Roy, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Effect of Airbnb Density on Housing Prices in San Francisco
Helen Schuda, Economics (ECON) 2020, Effects of the Green Line and Median Income on Home Prices: A Cross-Sectional Hedonic Analysis for Saint Paul, Minnesota
Abbie Smith, Economics (ECON) 2020, International Reserves in Emerging & Developed Countries: An Analysis of the Effects of Different Types of Financial Crises
