DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Megan Angell- Heterogeneous Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs in Ghana

Rachel Hersh- The Impact of Political Party Affiliation on Sustainable Investing Strategies in U.S. Public Pension Funds

Javier Madrazo Labardini- Playing Favorites? Political Patronage in the Allocation of Local Public Goods

Anand Lal-Tabak- Identifying Bias in Luminosity-Based Estimation: A Local Level Assessment of Night Light Data as a Proxy for Economic Activity

Xumeng Li- Are travelers getting worse-off after airline mergers - A study on the impacts of U.S. airline mergers on consumer welfare in domestic city-pair markets

Brian Lietke- Booming prison construction: An Economic analysis of America’s response to increased import competition from China

Yunhao Liu- Touring the Island: The Effects of High-Speed Rail on Tourism Distribution in Hainan Province

Hassan Sayed- Colonial Distortions: A Model of Extraction and Social Fabric

Shayna Servillas- The African Aid Market: How a Rise in Private Chinese Investment Impacts Aid Incentives for Governance

Kiyrie Abernethy- Predicting Demand in Bike Share Systems

Michael Cahana- The Distributional Impacts of Real-Time Pricing in the Spanish Residential Electricity Market

Mackenzie Lee-The Impact of Subway Access on Property Prices: Analysis of New York City's Second Avenue Subway

Xinyi Liu- College Major Choice under Financial Constraint: How do low income students choose majors compared to the representative student body at Northwestern?

Filippo Maggioni- Mutual Guarantee Societies and Soft Information Signals

Sangwoo Park- Does Transit Availability Affect the Responsiveness of Drivers to Gas Prices?

Parth Rajwade- The Effects of Having High Status Goals on Subjective Well-Being

Eliott Sassouni- The Paradox of ETFs’ Passivity: Can the Intentional Diversification of ETFs lead to Unintentional Consequences?

Lillian Siegel- Analyzing the Women's Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment of 1920 on Health Outcomes

Matthew Stadnicki- Links between School Choice and Home Prices

Emily Vogt- The Cognitive and Economic Implications of Nonmedical Adderall & Prescription Stimulant Use on College Campuses

Yuqi Zhang- A Study of the Economies of Scale of Light Rail Transit in the United States

Daniel Baker – Using Machine Learning to Improve College Football Recruitment Strategies and Decision Making

Alec Blumenthal – Electricity Rates and Electric Vehicle Adoption

Ross Chu – How Do Disasters in Home Countries Affect the Educational Performance of Immigrants?

Jonathan Corin – The Effect of Skilled Nursing Facilities Admissions on Accountable Care Organization Savings Rates

Tory Do – Recidivism Rates in Private Prisons

Burkett Evans – Empirical Testing of the Malthusian Population Model

Alex Gordon – Students Prefer Classes with Better Evaluations

Gavriel Hirsch – Why do Restaurants Offer Reservations?

Sara Johns – Effect of Wind Generation on Real-Time Wholesale Prices in the Texas (ERCOT) Market

Sang Rae Kim – Migrant Bride Phenomenon in East Asia and the Effect of International Marriage Normalization Policy

Wooyoung Lee – Donkeys Don’t Become Horses: The Effect of Player Wages and Managerial Experience on the Performance of Football (Soccer) Teams

Haksoo Lee – How do Northwestern Students Infer Returns to MMSS? Major Choice Behavior of Northwestern Students

Max Levine – Large Bank Presence: How Does the Presence of Large National and Regional Banks Impact Community Bank Return on Equity?

Aidan McLoughlin – The Early Decision Game: An Analysis of College Admissions Strategy and Who It Benefits

JuJu Miao – Expensive Babies and the Timing of Births: The Economic Incentives of Shifting Delivery Dates with Different Medical Insurance Types

Spencer Oh – Estimating Water Demand in the Midwest

Kelsey Pukelis – Impact of Nonfarm Participation on Household Investments and Expenditures

Priyanka Saha – Analyzing the Impact of Columbia’s 1993 Healthcare Reform on Healthcare Utilization & Health Outcomes

Kathir Sundarraj – Integrated Delivery Networks: Cost and Quality Outcomes of Health-Plan Affiliated Hospitals

Lauren Thomas – For Love or Money: Why Students Choose Careers in Finance and Consulting

Alex Wrubel – Are Cell Phones the New Crack? The Effect of Mobile Phone Addiction on Empathy

 Edwin Wu – One Size Fits All? Making Banking Policy Recommendations for Disparate Countries

James Bien - The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Job Search and Part-Time Employment

Emily Berson - It’s Fourth Down and What Does David Romer Say? An Examination of Romer’s Results and Papers

 Jonathan Blake - U.S. Interest Rates and Commercial Bank Profitability: Building a Zero Lower Bound into a Simple Bank Profitability Model

Shih-Yung Huang - Effects of the East Asian Financial Crisis on Women’s Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Indonesia

Nick Jacobson - The Effects of Unemployment, Income, Poverty, and Income Inequality on U.S. Mortality Rates by Race and Gender, 1999-2014

Camille Liu - Age and Accelerated Learning Status:  The Perils of Segregating Students by Ability

Lu Lu - Analysis on Broadband Service Pricing Model in China

Jonathan Merber - Asset Pricing in the Equity Markets: An Empirical Study of Tax Receivable Agreements in Initial Public Offerings

Hallie Miller - The Impact of Infectious Disease Outbreaks on International Trade Flows

Martin Ying - The Impact of Immigrants on the Employment of Low Education Native American Workers

Yuki Zou - Explaining Target Selection of Hedge Fund Activists Using Game Theory

Oriana Chiu - The Effect of Earnings and Unemployment on Female Marital Status by Ethnicity, 1995-2014

Jonathan Cohen - Friday Distraction in Financial Markets: Evidence from Earning Announcements and Bid-Ask Spreads

Zahin Haque - Competition in Microcredit Markets

Do Hyung Kim - Impact of Quantitative Easing on Investment Decision of Public Pension Funds

Spencer Levine - Hedge Fund Activism and Its Effects on Mid-to-Large Cap Targets

Raman Michael - Do Physicians' Perceptions of Malpractice Risk Affect Patient Safety?

William Morrison - Identifying the Theoretical Model that Best Describes Human Decision-Making under Uncertainty by Empirically Analyzing Responses to Shifts and Rescaling

Andrew Niederschulte - Do Superstars Lead to Success? The Effect of Payroll Distribution on Team Success in the Big 4 American Sports Leagues

Meemi Ownsuwan - The Role of Leverage in REIT Capital Structures: The Long Run Effects of Financial Distress Costs on REIT Values

Michael Shi - Sex and STEM: The relationship between class gender ratios and female retention in science, mathematics and engineering sequences

Ranjodh Singh - Externalities of Ride-hailing: An Analysis of Changes in DUI Rates

Katherine Stair - Government Regulation and Financial Riskiness: The Relationship between Home-Rule Legislation and Municipal Bond Issuances

Alice Zhou - Social Influence of Average Ratings on Consumer Online Rating Behavior

Seungho Andy Back - The Present and Future of the Korean Housing Market: Decreasing Popularity of Chonsei and Increasing Popularity of MRVD

Joe Calland - Rational Response or Over-reaction? The Stock Market’s Polar Plunge in February

Lauren DePaula - The Myopic Effects of Activism

Alex Entz - Does Expanding Preschool Access Improve Test Scores?

Meraaj Haleem - Changing Financial Incentives and Hospital Behavior: A Study of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and Its Impact on Hospital Decision Making

Andrew Holden - In Search of Recovery: The Impact of New Deal Policies on Employment in Search and Output

Nadine Jachi - Deindustrialization and the Gender Wage Gap: The Growing Role of Discrimination in the Manufacturing and Service Sectors

Layne Krishon - High School Graduation Requirements and the General Educational Development Program: The Effects of Standards on the Number of GED Recipients and the Labor Market Returns to a Diploma

Bennett Silbert - Estimating the Effects of Civil War on the Economic Growth of Neighboring Counties

Victor Chang - Linking Access with Quality: A Case for Hospital Altruism  

John Farr - Equity and Bank Runs: Insurance and Perhaps Prevention 

Luke Lopatka - Flatland Bubbles: An Empirical Study of Commercial Office Markets in the ‘Dot-Com’ Boom

Jaclyn Mauch - Economic Influences on Diet Patterns 1995-2011

Girish Pendse - Does Student Group Membership Affect Performance in College and Satisfaction with the College Experience?  

Svetlana Rusakova – Who Is Right on Target? Is There a Bailout Hidden in the Eurozone’s Payment Settlement System?  

Neil Sarkisian – The Changing “Southwest effect”: A Dynamic Entry Model

Vivan Som - Evidence of Divergence: A study of Public Expenditure and per capita Income Growth across Indian States between 1960 and 1988

Jichao Xu - The Effect of Hydraulic Fracturing on US Demand for Foreign Oil

Tughan Alioglu - Structural Break Analysis on the United Kingdom’s Monetary Policy and the Deutschmark-shadowing Experiment in the 1980s

Alexandra Baleanu - Emotions and Suboptimal Decision Making:  I know I am wrong, so what?

Emily Giudice - Saving for Sons:  How Son Preference and Skewed Sex Ratios Alter Indian Savings Behavior

Chung Kim - The Effect of Salary Erosion on Judicial Departure: Using Cost of Living Differentials

William Qiao - Racial Disparities in Access to Emergency Department Care by Analyzing Patient Wait Times

Bill Russell - Dr. Wildcat:  Explaining Decisions to Go to Graduate School after Northwestern

Jonathan Schwartz - And Don’t Forget the Popcorn:  Implications of Technological Shocks on Film Product Substitutability

Michael Steven Slonkosky - Moving Beyond CAPM: Testing Whether Multifactor Models Can Be Used to Better Explain Differences in the Average Rate of Return of Railroad Company Stock Returns from 1868 to 1913

Greg Smith - Concentration of Second Homes and its Effect on Residential Price Levels After the Crisis:  A Case Study in New England

Kevin Soter - Off the Beaten Track:  The Rise of Non-tenure-track Faculty in American Higher Education

Suzanne Chang - Southwest to the Rescue? An investigation of Hub Premiums and Southwest Airlines

Alice Feng - The impact of Openness to International Trade and Foreign Investment on Rural-Urban Income Inequality in China: 1980-2009

Yan Miao - Consumption Insurance against Illness: Evidence among the Elderly Population in Mexico

Jin-Soo Yu - Improving Students’ Academic Achievement: A Case for Teacher Salaries

Mikhail Zarkh - The Effect of Management Guidance Form and Precision on Investor Uncertainty

Qiyun Cai - The Effect of College Opening on Local Housing Prices

Andres Duarte - Multi-Market Interaction as a Means of Overcoming Capacity Constraints in Tacit Collusion Regimes: A Look at the Chemical Tanker Shipping Market

Melanie Harmon - Economics of Mortgage Foreclosure: Investigating Borrower and Lender Responses in Differentiated Legal Environments

William Nowak - The Effect of Gasoline Prices on RTA Transit Ridership (1999-2008)

Scott Oudheusden - Economic Effects of the Magnuson-Stevens Act on the Race to Fish in the Alaskan Halibut Fishery

Samir Pendse - Does Initial Student Enthusiasm Affect Performance in College?

Kevin Rinz - Expanded Unemployment Insurance Eligibility and Post-unemployment Wages:  A Part-time Model

Julie Sawaya - Food Deserts in Chicago, An Empirical Analysis of the Claim, AYou are what you eat@

Robin Saxena - An Empirical Analysis of Nonperforming CMBS Deals Utilizing a Novel Dataset

Billy Schwartz - Murder, Home Prices and the Statistical Value of a Life

William Thompson - Did Monetary Policy Contribute to the Boom in Housing Prices?

Ravi Umarji - The Effects of Financial Development on Inequality

Edgars Vimba - Gravity Model of Trade:  The Case of Latvia, a Small Open Economy

 Norman Wang - Transfer Sizes: A study in Conditional Cash Transfer Incentives

Ray Wong - Finding the Silver Lining in Divorce: The Effects of Divorce on Housing Sales

Spencer Burke - Short and Long-Run Gasoline Demand Elasticity

Marko Duric - A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Tax Increment Financing

Mallory Dwinal - An Economic Analysis of the Returns to Bilingual and Immersion Programs for English Language Learning Hispanic Students in the United States

Tian Huang - Who Gives? An Empirical Analysis of Determinants for Giving to Panhandlers

Syed Irfan - Are Islamic Mortgage Alternatives Different from Conventional Mortgages

Hannah Pitt - Land Title and Incentives in Rural Thailand: A Plot-Level Analysis

Alexandru Rus - A Modest Economic Inquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Statistical Revolution: Medical and Financial Innovation before 1900

Nicholas Stancu - Dissecting Trade: A Revision of the Effects of Trade Composition on Economic Growth

Catherine Tomasulo - Accuracy Verification Methods and their Ability to Select Experts: An Empirical Analysis

Kate Ashley - Pricing Congestion at O'Hare International Airport:  A Look at Arrival Delays and Congestion-Based Landing Fees

Ja-In Baek - An Empirical Study on Inequality in Korea: The Effect of the 1997 Financial Crisis

Theresa Chin - Borrowing Luxury: The Role of Leasing in Fashion

Lee Ettleman - The Correlation between News Article Characteristics and Stock Price and Volume Volatility

Rami Jachi - Government Multipliers in a Business Cycle Model

Jennifer S. Jhun - Justification, Charity, and Rational Belief in Dynamic Games

Kaidi Liu - The Effect of Migration and One Child Policy on China's Population Distribution and Pension Solvency -- A Provincial Glance

Chenfei Lu - Eminent Domain Legislation Reform and its Effect on Housing Prices

Noah Metz - Divide and Extract: An Empirical Analysis of Ethnic Fragmentation and Energy Depletion

Julie Shen - Recent Effects of Employment in Township and Village Enterprises on Rural Consumption in the People's Republic of China

Matthew Sibery - Demand for Refugee Status:  The Determinants of Asylum Migration to the United States

William Frederick Swee - Horizontal Merger Regulation: A Model for Understanding Decisions of the Federal Trade Commission

Mike Tomkins - Determinants of Civil Settlement of Cases Subject to Mediation in Federal District Court: An Empirical Analysis

Catherine Barrera - Agency and Stewardship: An Experimental Study of a Representative

Marissa Benson - Reducing Recidivism through Therapeutic Community Treatment Programs

Brian Fryd - Economics, Politicians, and Votes: Modeling Congressional Elections

Gregory Hafkin - Fixed Guideway, Variable Success: Analysis of Quantitative Factors Influencing Light-Rail Ridership

Alex Imas - The Effects of Food Aid on Recipient Sentiment towards the Donor

Paul Thissen - Informal Risk Sharing in Urban and Semi-Urban Cameroon

Michael Tong - New Paths: The Tibetan Railroad

Tianyi Wang - Biopharmaceutical and Chemical Drug Approvals in the United States and European Union: 1997-2005

Jhe Yun - A Study on Non-linear Forecasting Methods

Hrithik Bansal - Ethno-Linguistic Fragmentation and Economic Growth in India

Tom Del Carlo - Poverty Alleviation through Trade?

Ian Dew-Becker - Was Lucas Right?

Tara English - Analysis of How Major Employers and Metropolitan Location Relate to the Size of Edge Cities

Jaime Griesgraber - The Role of Pollution Abatement Costs in the Concentration of Manufacturing Industries

Chris Hagel - Choosing How to Choose

Michael Jurewitz - Reliability Must-Run Generation

Hyun Lee - The Effect of the Introduction of KODEX200 on the KOSPI200 Index Spot-Futures Pricing Relationship

Richard Leung - The Effect of Time-to-Build and Demand Uncertainty on Aircraft Orders in the U.S. Airline Industry

Merry Lin - Domestic Partner Benefits and its Effects on Same-Sex and Heterosexual Cohabitating Couples

Hannah McCrea - Evaluating Water Markets: Do Property Rights Promote Efficiency in Freshwater Consumption?

Michael Pruyn - Has the EMU Affected the United Kingdom’s FDI Inflows?

Jeffrey Schumacher - Dispute Dynamics: A Firm-Level Study of Patent Litigation in the Biotechnology Industry

Jessica Tu - Informal Politics and Domestic Investment in China

Reed Van Gorden - The Relationship between R&D Expense and R&D Output in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries

Daniel Averbukh - Why the Jews Won:  An economic analysis of the Israeli War of Independence

Jennifer Avery - How do Countries Grow in Transition?  A Study on Countries of Central and Eastern Europe

Michael Cohen - Online Poker:  High-Stakes Profits

David Deterding - Using the Oaxaca Distribution to Find the Relevance of Market Size in Determining Wins in Major League Baseball

Dianne Esber - Whose Price Is It Anyway? The Gains of Price Discrimination by Incorporation the Effect of Demographics on Elasticity in the Soft Drink Market

Joeffrey Hatton - Do Cigarette Taxes Affect the Prevalence of Youth Marijuana Consumption

Caroline Hollis - Insurance Markets in Developing Countries:  A Look at Weather Derivatives

Darius Horton - Usury Laws in Arkansas:  Boon or Burden?

Erin Huffington - The Impact of Non-cognitive Skills on Educational Attainment, Teenage Pregnancy, Drug Use, and Criminal Conviction

John Hughes III - Medical Liability Caps:  A Failed Solution

Nicholas Jakubowski - An Analysis of the Potential Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Single Fathers

Michael Kaplan - Why Do People Live Where They Do?  An Empirical Study on the Theory of Urban Residential Location

Timothy J. Lee - Education Effects on Economic Growth in Singapore and South Korea

Dena Milligan - The Wireless Personal Communications Services Industry:  Determining the Number of Service Producers in the Market

Christopher Nakutis - Superstition and the Effect of Trading Volume in Asian Markets

Arpan Patel - Modeling Service Outsourcing

Tariq Raza - Modeling the Interest and Exchange Rates Impacts on the Brazilian Agricultural Exports: An Empirical Analysis

Elisabeth Rehder - Winning and Losing:  Title IX and the Competition between Male and Female Athletics

Julian Romero - Revenue Sharing in Sports Leagues

Aarti Rupani - The Impact of Corruption on International Trade

Reuben Subramaniam - Hyperbolic Discounting in an Experimental Market

Mary Svenstrup - Determinants of Welfare Participation and Successful Exit

Nader Varjavand - Comparing Strategies for Candidate Position Taking with Simulated Elections

Diana Wielocha - To Deter or Not to Deter:  An Economic Analysis of the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment and Life without Parole

Elliot Lee Anenberg - The Impact of University Athletic Success on Academics

Adam Gibbs Augustson - Foreign Direct Investment and Its Impact on Transition Economies

Kenley Barrett - Determinants of Female Decision-Making Power and its Demographic Implications:  An Analysis of Northern and Southern India

Chlump Garry Chatkupt - Buy It Now Prices on eBay and Revenue Maximization

Thomas Eric Gustav Goerner - Wage Gap Analysis in Context of Aggregate Labor Market Influences

Christopher Frederic Goetz - Price Convergence in the European Union:  By what mechanism do poorer countries Acatch up@?

Matthew John McCormick - Motor Gasoline Price Levels and Volatility:  The Cost of Regulation without Coordination

Siwat Vilassakdanont - How Predictable Was the Asian Economic Crisis?  An Application to Thailand’s Economy

Hyungi Woo - Household Structural Change of Korean Families thought Women’s Bargaining Power

Ali Riza Yurukoglu - Does Corruption Lead to Banking Crises?

Rodrigo Aguirre de Carcer - A Study of the Macroeconomic Consequences of South Africa’s AIDS Crisis, and of the Country’s Puzzling Passivity towards the Prevention and Eradication of its Epidemic

Faisal Ahmed - Did Title IV induce productivity growth in the US electric utility industry during Phase I?  An evaluation using Data Enveloping Analysis (DEA)

Brian Cadena - The Impacts of Welfare Reform on the Well-Being of Single Mothers:  An Analysis Using Consumption Goods

Sina Foroohar - Cognitive Biases and Decision-Making in Equity Markets:  An Empirical Analysis of Prospect Theory’s Application to Technical Analysis

Virxhini Gjonzeneli - Racial Earnings Inequality in the Service and Manufacturing Sectors in the United States

Ashlee Humphreys - A Holistic Look at Brand Equity

Katherine James - The Subsidy for Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Inna Kossova - The Aggregate Own Price Elasticity of Energy Demand over the Last Thirty Years

Katherine Hejean Lee - Immigrants and Welfare Dependency:  Evaluating the Success of the Welfare Reform Act

Lee Lockwood - Macroeconomic Shock Correlations in the CFA Franc Zone

Andrew Merickel - Human Capital and Wage Growth:  A Counter-Revisionist Analysis

Monisha Mitra - Creating a Family-Friendly Work Environment:  Effects of Maternal Leave Policy

Paul Musiala - Accounting for Corruption:  Firm Experience in Transition Economies

Barbara Peschak - Economic Openness and Income Inequality:  An Empirical Study of Europe

Lindsey Piegza - Gender Expectations of Housework:  Analysis of Projection of the Egalitarian Household

Nirupama Putcha - The Economics of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Developing Countries

Komala Ramachandra - Corruption and Growth

Matthias Ruebsamen - Modeling Scientists’ Behavior over Time Factors affecting the Submission of Proposals to the National Science Foundation

Catherine Stahl - The Impact of Tax Policy on Corporate Dividends

Jessica Talati - Labor Market Returns to Education:  A Comparative Analysis among Hispanic Groups

Sherry Wang - Casino Gambling and Employment:  Analysis of the Impact of Gaming on the Employment of Selected Metropolitan Areas

Christina Weng - Comparing the Quality of Care in United States For-Profit and Non-Profit Nursing Homes

Jonathan Achenbach - Business Cycle Model with Indivisible Labor and Asymmetrical Labor Adjustment Cost

Jonathan Bull - An Analysis of the Murder Rate:  Does Drug Enforcement Spending Subsidize Crime?

Einar Einarsson - The Impact of Weather Conditions on Worker Absenteeism

Elliot Fladen - The Effect of State and National Unemployment Rates on Law School Applications Segmented by Prestige and Region

Eric Gretch - Inflation Fighters:  A Study of the Effects of Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes on Growth

Omer Jaweed - Reassessing Motor Vehicle Safety:  Fasten your Seatbelt, and Look out Bikers!

Helen Keung - Labor Productivity and Wages  Do They Keep Up with Each Other?  Is There a Puzzle?

Zachary Johnston - The Role of Section Bias in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program:  An Analysis of the Effects of Diminishing Returns to Educational Inputs on the Performance of Voucher Students

Amit Khandelwal - Inequality, Income and Convergence:  Evidence from Indian States

Adam Kirschner - The Effects of Wealth on Voting Patters during the Election of 1860: Examining the Counties that later Formed the Border between the Union and the Confederacy

Uri Kogan - Accounting for the Energy Embodied in Trade in the Energy Intensity of the Manufacturing Sector of the United States

Mark Kutzbach - Unlocking Land

John Lower - Customer Discrimination and Racial Differences in the Compensation of Professional Baseball Players

Andrew Mauer - Assessing the Effects of Mobile-Source Pollution Regulation:  An Analysis of Hydrocarbon Emissions Patterns among the Existing Vehicle Fleet

Jeet Minocha - Determinants of Biotechnology-Pharmacy Alliance Partners

John Mounce - Influences on Federal Reserve Policy as Manifest in the Federal Funds Rate:  an Empirical Study

Nora Mueller - ALooking for a New Tomorrow@:  Irish Emigration to the United States and Great Britain in the Nineteenth Century

Frank Pitsoulakis - Differential Carbon Tax Rates across Jurisdictions:  The Competitive Consequences and Welfare Effects under Imperfect Competition and Energy Substitution

Justin Ranney - The Playoff Payoff:  Postseason Revenue and Labor Decisions

Samuel Richman - Persian Rugs in Evanston and Other Tales of Agglomeration

Shalini Roy - We Don’t Need No Education?  Explaining the Non-Effect of Education on Growth

Ralph Schwartz - The Arbitrage-Induced Hypothesis:  An Explanation for Negative Returns to Acquiring Firms in a Merger

Timothy Tan - Identifying Weak Links in the Chain from Health Spending to Health Outcomes:  The Cross-Country Impact of Health Policy and Government Efficiency

Spencer Chen - Valuation Implications of Special and Extraordinary Items

Jill Gibson - Who will Serve the Poor:  An Examination of Physician Characteristics

Melissa Hayes - The Space Shuttle Program:  A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Julia He - Book Pricing Policies: An Examination of Bestsellers

Matthew James - Estimator for black-white wealth gap

Ankit Mahadevia - Do Quality and Efficiency Differ across Nonprofits and For-profits? Providers of Hemodialysis to ESRD Patients

Gail Mandelkern - Calculating a price index for residential rent:  methods of controlling for quality change bias

Jennifer Paulson - Vacation Time in the United States and Europe

Amy Popick - Effects of High School Employment on Academic Achievement

Devin Renberg - Wealth and Black Mortality in 1870 America

Jeffrey Shulman - The Immediate and Short-Term Effects of Consumer Promotions on Produce Revenue and Product-Line Marketshare

John Tang - Does Insurance Type Matter?  The Impact of Patient Insurance Status on Hospital Readmission Rates

Deepak Venkat - Use of Means-Tested Welfare by Immigrants: A Follow-up Study