2022 Honors Graduates
The Department of Economics is pleased to announce the following Honors graduates. These graduates have distinguished themselves academically and have demonstrated a desire to further their intellectual dialogue through original research in the field of Economics.
2022 Honors Graduates
Hailey Ahn
Committee: Nels Lind, Hugo Mialon, Maria Arbatskaya
Title of Thesis: News Shocks in Olympics Bidding
Daryl Chan
Committee: Stephen O'Connell, Paloma Moyano, Miguel Rueda (Political Science)
Title of Thesis: The $900 Billion Paycheck Protection Program: Can a Self-Targeted Relief Program Achieve Optimal Allocation?
Roger Chen
Angela Choksi
Committee: Stephen O'Connell, Holli A. Semetko (Political Science)
Title of Thesis: The Impact of Demographic Differences on Consumer Preferences for Public Versus Private Health Insurance in California
Raoul Dubey
Committee: Stephen O'Connell, Sonal Nalkur (Sociology), Paloma Moyano
Title of Thesis: A microeconomic analysis of the determinants and effects of economic migration in India
Albert Liu
Committee: Kelli Lanier, Maria Arbatskaya, Sara Valencia Botto (Psychology), Krzysztof Karbownik, Ho Jin Kim (QTM)
Title of Thesis: Economic conformity: eliciting conformity in a public goods game
Tanushree Pendharkar
Committee: Kelli Lanier, Shomu Banerjee, Sara Valencia Botto (Psychology)
Title of Thesis: Willingness-to-Pay for 'Sustainable' Fashion: The Effects of Information
Hao Chen (Rocky) Rui
Committee: Jeong-Ho (John) Kim, Kaiji Chen, Stephen O'Connell
Title of Thesis: Introducing ESG into Characteristic-Based Benchmark Returns
Naomi Santiago
Committee: Blake Allison, Melvin Ayogu, Roy Black (Finance)
Title of Thesis: The Effects of Natural Disasters on Local Economies: A Study of Florida Counties
Minjeong Seok
Committee: David McMillon, Shomu Banerjee, Bree Ettinger (Mathematics)
Title of Thesis: Measuring Calibrated Diversity Index
Nicholas Skelley
Committee: Kelli Lanier, Stephen O'Connell, Weihua An (Sociology, QTM)
Title of Thesis: Comparing experimental loss framing methods in a multi-leveled lying context
Andrew Taber
Committee: Krzysztof Karbownik, Jeong-Ho (John) Kim, Alexander Bolton (Political Science)
Title of Thesis: The Effects of Racial Equity Pledge Making on Firms' Stock Valuation
Enoch (Yinuo) Tang
Committee: Kaiji Chen, Jeong-Ho (John) Kim, Mi Luo
Title of Thesis: Understanding Housing Market Boom During COVID-19: Distributional Effect on Housing Demand Among Income Groups
Aditya Venkataramani
Committee: Evan Saltzman, Ian McCarthy, Tom Smith (Finance)
Title of Thesis: The Effect of Workplace Injury on Player Valuation in the National Basketball Association
