2019 Thesis Projects
Theses
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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
Georgia Twersky loves diving deep into data when she’s studying economics. But her experiences at Notre Dame have helped her see the value of understanding the people behind the numbers, as well. An international economics major with a Spanish concentration and a minor in peace studies, the senior has found...