2019 - Theses, Honors Capstones, and International Economics Senior Research Projects
Theses
Debora Mulokozi: Kasey Buckles - The Long-run Effects of an Extra Year of Schooling on Income Earned - Evidence from Britain
Arianna Blanco: Michele Muller-Itten
Justine Wang: Kirsten Cornelson - The Social Effects of Increased Competition: How Bank Branching Deregulation Affects Confidence in Banks
Matthew Brown: Abigail Wozniak - Mixed Signals? Occupational Licensing and Intermittent Labor Force Participation
Nicolas Gabriele: Eric Sims - Do Democrats Do Better? An Examination of the Democrat-Republican Gap at National and State Levels
Honors Capstone
Catherine Etchart: Michael Pries - The Cost of Caring: Assessing the Performance of Socially Responsible Mutual Funds
Mateo Garcia-Novelli: Kirsten Cornelson - Skin Tone, Wages, and Education: Why Differences Between Hispanic-Americans Lead to Different Labor Market Outcomes
Thomas Pettit: Abigail Wozniak - Where Did The Manufacturing Workers Go?
Dante Domenella: James Sullivan
Michael Smith: William Evans - The Effect of Uber on Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities
Edward Connor Murphy: William Evans - A Perfect Storm: Consequences of Legislative Changes and the Great Recession on Public School Funding in Texas
William LeRoy: Kali Rath and Terence Johnson
Bennett Grefenstette: Eric Sims - Countdown to Doomsday: The Financial Crisis Through FOMC minutes
Therese Bonomo: Timothy Dunne - The Distributional Impacts of a Federal Tax on Carbon
Shuyu Vicky Jiang: Michele Muller-Itten
Astrid Brakstad: Kirk Doran
Vivian Crumlish: Chloe Gibbs - It’s not “NEET” to be Idle: An Evaluation of England’s Increased School Leaving Age
International Economics Senior Research Project
Albertina Arce: Forrest Spence - Understanding the effects of immigrant status on intergenerational mobility and labor market inequalities in Saint-Dénis, France
Sloan Austermann
Anne Bonds
Nicole Degla
Luke Golichowski: Forrest Spence - Decriminalizing All Drugs: The Case of Portugal
Sara Kellenberg: Forrest Spence - The Fiscal Impact and Greater Economic Implications of Brain Drain: A Study of Venezuela
Keenan MacQuarrie: Forrest Spence - The Effect of Opiate/Heroin Drug Seizures at the Border on Opioid/Heroin Related Deaths in the United States
Caroline McKay
Mia Schwartz
Anna Sheridan
William Trapp
Tristan Vitale: Lakshmi Iyer, Forrest Spence - The Unintended Consequences of Italian Law Enforcement: The Spread of the Mafia in the 1990s
Spotlight
One of the greatest assets of a Notre Dame degree is the University’s incredible global network. But those connections aren’t only with alumni — senior Nick Gabriele believes that, sometimes, the most important mentors can be fellow students. Gabriele, an economics and Spanish major who will begin working as a...