Communication:

• State Characteristics and Carbon Emissions – Briana Berninghaus, Lindsey Hawk and Devon Stuhlsatz
• MLB Team Success: Offense vs. Defense – Andrew Argeros, Ryan Brauer, Jake Dujmovic
• The One Child Policy and Reproductive Justice: Son Preference, Sex Selection, Violence and Demography – Isabel Pastoor

Senior Thesis:

• The Political Economy of State-Level Social Cost of Carbon Policy – Will Macheel
• Do Biometric Smartcards Help the Neediest Most? Evidence From a Large-Scale Field Study in Andhra Pradesh – Noam Benkler
• The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Social-Safety-Net Dependence Over Time – Camille Baker

Term Paper:

• The Effects of Access to Clean Water and Sanitation on Households in Healthcare Expenditure: Evidence from the Philippines – Tianrui Liu
• The Effect of Unemployment on the Decision to Enter the Illegal Ivory Trade – Elizabeth Kula
• Natural Disasters and FDI: Evidence from India – Aidan Toner-Rodgers

Economic Communications:

• Feel the Burn: Sexual Transmitted Infections and Birth Control Choices in U.S. Young Adults – Lauren Lenzen and Victoria Kalina
• A Proposal to Increase Funding for Programs Combating the U.S. Opioid Crisis – Laura Herman and Ashley Chavez
• A Policy Approach to Transphobia – Kapono Asuncion

Senior Thesis:

• What is the Impact of a Medicaid expansion on the bankruptcy rate? Evidence from the ACA – Noah Zwiefel
• Whose “War on Coal”? – Dasom Isabella Ham
• The Effects of Lan Inheritance Laws on Agricultural Investment in Polygynous Households: Evidence from Uganda – Khadidja Ngom

Term Papers:

• Intertemporal Decision Making: ‘Smokers’ vs ‘Vapers’ -Isaac Liu and Jacob Trout
• Evaluating Minnesota Minimum Wage Increases Using Synthetic Control Methods – Matthew Yang
• The Efficacy of State-Level PrEP Access Programs: A Tal of Two States – Noah Zwiefel

Senior Thesis:

• What makes a Successful Social Enterprise – Iris Arbogast
• Isolating Discrimination in the Sexual Orientation Wage Gap – David McKinley
• Do Students Benefit form an Extra Year of High School? A Study of Ontario’s Removal of Grade 13 – Avinash Moorthy
• Woman Against Women? An Experimental Approach to Single-Gender Competitive Performance – Victoria Cragg Peterson

Term Papers:

• Overconfidence and Excess Entry in Entrepreneurship – Adom Mills-Roberson, Qian Wang
• Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment: The Effect of Microfinance on Fertility Rates and Female Workforce Involvement – Laura DeMane
• Output Convergence in the United States: Evidence from State-Level Data- Chan Wang

Senior Thesis:

• Can the Rise of Dual-Earning Households Explain Gentrification of US Central Cities? – Stefan Faridani
• Temporary Assistance with Lasting Effects: A report on Policies of Self-Determination in Native America- Ryan A. Mather
• The Relationship Between Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption and Long-Run Growth: A Vector Autoregressive Approach – II Shan Ng

Term Papers:

• Adverse Food Price Shocks, Employment, and Wage Income: Evidence form Tanzania – Ibrahima Dieye
• Booyah! An Analysis of Mad Money Stock Recommendations – Matthew Dakken
• Determinants of Diversification: A Study of Ecuadorian Exports – Ryan A. Mather

Senior Thesis:

• Is the Affordable Car Act’s Individual Mandate a Certified Job-Killer? – Cory Stern
• Skill Spills: A Cross-Skill Group Analysis on Wage of Good Jobs – Robert Krossa
• The War on Error: Air Strike Efficacy and Boomerang Effects – Benny Goldman

Term Papers:

• Has Affordable Car Act Successfully Brought Down Individual Market Premiums in the United States? – Qisheng Li
• Can the cost of education explain the shape of the income distribution? – Stefan Faridani
• Heroin and Nalxone: Disentangling an Epidemic – Hope Johnson
• The Two Envelope Paradox – Alex Hang and Mark Ward

Senior Thesis:

• Estimating Earnings Differentials among Military Veterans – Shawn M. Tangen
• Capital, Scale, and Risk Constraints to Vegetable Adoption Among Smallhold Farmers in Nepal – Erik Katovich
• Happiness and Time Preference: An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Individual Happiness and Information on Intertemporal Choice and Delaying Gratification – Daniel Flesher

Term Papers:

• Fear and Marketing: How does the Feature of Voice and Speed a Which Side Effects are Read in Direct Consumer Advertising (DTCA) of Pharmaceuticals Affect Consumers’ Willingness to Pay? – Cody Dail and Huiting Fan
• How Do Incremental Wage Increases Affect Low-Wage Workers’ Health Levels? – Cory Stern
• Terror Attacks and Bond Yeilds in the European Union: An Autogressive Transfer Function Approach – Benny Goldman

Senior Thesis:

• Does Bilingual Education Improve Peruvian Ingigenous Students’ Academic Achievement? – 
• Punishment Past the Cell: An Analysis of Employment and Earnings of Ex-Offenders – David Stillerman
• Structural Change in the Demand for Housing Services and Policy Implications – Nhu Nguyen
• Stuck in the Middle: The substitution Effect of Digital Technology on Middle Skilled Jobs – Shannon Cordes

Term Papers:

• The Impact of Information Delivery Improvement on Prescription Adherence among HIV Positive Individuals – Ozlem Barin
• International Business Cycle Transmissions and News Shocks – Yingtong Xie
• Do expected marginal revenue products for National Hockey League players equal the price in daily fantasy games? – Benny Goldman
• Public Transit and Employment Access- The Effects of Hiawatha Rail Transit on Employment in Minneapolis, MN – Alexander H. Bentz

Senior Thesis:

• The Behavioral Effects of Early Interventions for Children from Low-Income Households – Ben Bedore
• Do wind turbines affect the sale price of single-family homes? Evidence form McLean County, Illinois – Natalie Camplair
• Do Differences in Unemployment Benefits Explain Unemployment in Spain Relative to Portugal? – William Creedon
• How do Residential Recycling Programs Affect the Ratio of Secondary to Virgin Production in the Paper Industries? – Yiwen Hu
• Mutually Reinforcing Debt and Financial Crises in Spain and Ireland: A VAR Approach – Sasha Scarlett Indarte

Senior Thesis:

• Bringing Home the Bacon: How Does Slicing the Pork Affect Electability and Fundraising of Congressional Candidates? – Tyler R. Peterson
• What Factors Influence Consumers’ Decisions to Purchase Energy Star Appliances? – Rosamound Mate
• Historical Economic Integration in Europe: Application of a Threshold Auto-Regressive Model with Price Data from: 1295-1914 – Ruben Ramirez
• Mus on your Face, Big Disgrace Vs. The Wisdom of Crowds: Macroforecasters’ Herding Behavior Over Time – Adam Freedman

Term Papers:

• Brains over Brawn: Are there lower levels of wage discrimination between the sexes in industries that require less physical strength and more cognitive skill? – Jessica Baier
• Do Commercial Banks’ Foreign Claims affect Sovereign Bond Yields in the Euro Zone? – William Creedon
• The Effect of Welfare on Educational Advancement among Unmarried Mothers – Thomas Hegland
• How Does Mass Media Exposure Affect Knowledge of Different Contraceptive Techniques Among Women in Brazil? – Caroline Davidson
• Does Proximity to Wind Farms Affect the Value of Nearby Residential Properties? Evidence from Washington and New York States – Natalie Camplair

Senior Thesis:

• Cointegration of International Stock Markets: An Investigation of Diversification Opportunities – Taimur Ali Khan
• Horizontal Education Inequalities and Civil Conflict: The nexus of ethnicity, inequality, and violent conflict – Katharine Lindquist
• How Does Light Rail Transit Affect Urban Land Use? – Needham Hurst
• What is the effect of trade on the gender wage gap in the Mexican manufacturing sector? – Jimerson J. Asencio Ferrufino

Term Papers:

• An Analysis of the Relationship between Financial Aid for Higher Education and Crime Rate – Yuyoung Park
• Does childhood immunization lead to future gains in individual labor productivity? Evidence from the Philippines – Philip J. Titcombe
• Monetary Assessment and Predicted Utility Dissociation Across Two Goods – Senthuran Raveendranathan, Tristan Taru

Senior Thesis:

• Ignorance is Bliss… Or is It? An Empirical Look at the Relationship Between Higher Education and Happiness –  Jaselyn B. Taubel
• Macroeconomic Impacts of Oil Price Levels and Volatility on Indonesia – Marcel Gozali
• The Wage Effects of Obesity in the U.S. Labor Market: Are Obese Paid Less Because of Health Insurance? – Megan Mileusnic

Term Paper:

• Coke or Pepsi? An Inflationary Debate: Accounting for Product Variety in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve – Nels Lind
• Do Bank Mergers Create Shareholder Value? An Event Study Analysis – Varini Sharma
• The Effects of Economic Factors in Determining the Transition Process in Europe and Central Asia – David Lopez
• The Size Effect and the Capital Asset Pricing Model – Nikhil Gupta

Senior Thesis:

• Business Cycles and Health; How the Level of Development of a Country Affects the Relationships between the Strength of its Economy and the Health of its Population – Samantha Morin
• Causality and Comparative Advantage: Vietnam’s Role in the Post-ICA International Coffee Market – Lindsey Grace Stockman
• The Dynamic Effects of Changes in Business and Income Taxes on Output: Evidence from American Fiscal Policy – Jacob O. Schak

Term Paper:

• Does Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Favor Properties Adjecent to the Development Site? – Atang Gilika
• Anonymity and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from a Public Good Game – Dakota Ryan
• Does Perceiving a Shorter Life Expectancy Make You More Likely to Commit a Crime? – Jeremy Roth

Senior Thesis:

• Measuring the Impact of Microcredit Programs: Evidence from Rural Households in Bangladesh – 
• Spatial Patterns of Foreign Direct Investments – Kaitlyn Orr
• What is the Price Elasticity of Waiting Time for Taxis in Yaoundé, Cameroon? – Patrick James Gilmartin

Term Papers:

• Did the Hiawatha Light Rail Line Increase Single-Family Residential Property Values? – Adam Kent and Joseph Parilla
• Does NBA Attendance Respond to an Increased Emphasis on Offense? – Todd Copenhaver
• The Impact and Efficiency of EITC Parameter Changes on Work – Nate Black

Senior Thesis:

• Democracy, Property Rights and FDI in Developing Countries A Regional Analysis – Brendan Pierpont
• The Excess Smoothness Puzzle, Habitat Formation, and Forward-Looking Behavior in Aggregare Consumption – Mike Gravelle
• The Role of Reputation in Online Markets for Small-Ticket Goods: An eBay Case Study – Anthony Quill

Term Papers:

• The Effect of School Inputs on Dropout Rates in Mennesota School Districts – David M. Vock
• The Impact of Stock Market Liberalization on Emerging Equity Market Volatility A Simulation Approach – Pawan Dhir
• Veteran Status and Civilian Wages – Jamie Wyeth

Senior Thesis:

• Emissions Policy with Endogenous Technological Change and Knowledge Spillovers – Davin Reed
• Food for Thought: The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Grocery Prices – 
• How does Hosting the Olympic Games Impact Employment in the Host City? – Lee Tucker

Term Papers:

• Incidence Analysis of a Unit-Based Garbage Tax – Francie Streich
• The Determinants of Economic Growth after a Currency Crisis A Cross Country Analysis – Pawan Dhir
• Violent Conflict and Foreign Direct Investment Developing Economies: A Panel Data Analysis – Brendan Pierpont

Senior Thesis:

• Determinants of Asset Prices, Testing For Stock Market Overvaluation, and the Role of Monetary Policy – Kristina Kappmeyer
• Rural Credit Markets in Vietnam: Theory and Practice – Giang Ho
• Undergraduate Debt and the Propensity to Peruse Post Baccalaureate Education – Stacey L. Sogard

Term Papers:

• Do Privatized and Newly Created Firms have Higher Levels of Productivity? Evidence from Slovenia – Professor Gary Krueger
• D-Score: Bankruptcy Prediction Model for Middle Market Public Firms – Martins Blums
• Interpreting “Good” and “Bad: News Signals: The Effects of Dividend Initiations on Stock Price Returns – Jeremy Schultz

• At What Cost? An Estimation of the Effect of Macroeconomics Contradiction on Girls’ Educational Attainment in Argentina – Misha Anne Werschkul
• Does the Death Penalty Deter Capital Crime? An Econometric Analysis – Ruchira M. Jha

• Application of Gender and Development: An Econometric Analysis of Women’s Autonomy and Fertility Behavior – Jim Salle
• The Effect of Open Space on Residential Property Values in St. Paul, MN – Soren Tyler Anderson