Economics Paper Competition Winners

Congratulations to the winners of our Undergraduate Paper Competition and Senior Capstone Paper Competition! See the links below for access to the winning papers.

Honor Thesis

1st prize

Pranav Sundararajan

 Modelling Energy & Its Externalities in the Macroeconomy: A Dynamic General Equilibrium (DGE) Approach

2nd prize

Nathaniel Nelson

COVID-19 and Education Inequality: How Demographics and School Closures Affected Learning

3rd price 

Gabriella Curiel 

Wages Lost to Recidivism: The Indirect Costs of Private Prisons

Senior Capstone

1st Prize

Wenbao (Oliver) Dai  (ECON 3951)

Robot adoption and export product quality: evidence from the microdata of Chinese firms

2nd Prize

Zhuoran Wang (ECON 3951)

How Urbanization Affects the Rural-Urban Income Gap in China - Based on Panel Data from 31 Provinces in China from 2005 to 2022

3rd Prize

Sandra Talledo (ECON 3951)

Do countries that have limited potential for renewable energy develop nuclear power?

Sara Schuster (ECON 4261)

Analysis on the Impact of Canada’s 1968 No-Fault Divorce Policy on Divorce Rates Using Difference-in-Differences