Honors Thesis Final Presentations Spring 2023

Presentations will be in O'Neill 257.  We will meet from 8:30-10:15 a.m., except on April 4 and April 20 when we will begin at 8:15.  Advisers are invited to attend.  Each presentation should be about 15 minutes in length with some additional time for questions.  

March 28

Liam Dietrich: “Oh, SNAP! The Effect of Improved Nutrition Assistance on Enrollment” (Cichello)

Emma Mayfield: “Winners and Losers: Enrollment Rates in Post-Civil War Liberia” (Cichello)

Neha Suneja: “Evaluating the Impact of Crop Diversification on Smallholder Farmer Resilience in Nigeria” (Cichello)

Jackson Danforth: “Environmental Policies and Their Relative Effectiveness at Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Comparative Analysis” (Sanzenbacher)

March 30

Jesse Wu: “Three Year Analysis of Tulsa Remote on U.S. Computer Scientist Migration” (Kazarosian)

Gural Nuriyev: “The Deferred Acceptance Algorithm for the New-Graduate Software Engineering Labor Market” (Yenmez) 

Yingke "Sharon" Chen: “How inflation affects net housing value and pension wealth in the United States” (Baum)

April 4  (Note: Class starts at 8:15 a.m.)

Silvia Ianeselli: “What is the elasticity of electric vehicle demand with respect to price and how does it  differ between low- and high-income households?” (Sweeney)

Yanjing (Helena) Xie: “Investigating the Immediate Economic Impact of the U.S. Government’s Rhetoric and Threats During the U.S.-China Trade War” (Valchev)

Joe Milosh: “A Cost Comparison of Clinical and Novel In-Vitro Diagnostic Methods in the Incidental Cardiac Disease Patient Population” (Regan / Bezzerides)

Lauren Gillet: “The Overeducation of Syrian Immigrants in Jordan” (Sankaran)

Thamar (Naika) Jean Laurent: “Monopolizing Bodies: An economic analysis of Kidnapping for ransom in Haiti” (Sankaran)

April 11  (Note: Class starts at 8:15 a.m.)

Shijian (Russell) Zhang: Contract Renewal Incentive Effect: Reality or Myth?” (Grubb)

Louis Gleason: “Knowledge Spillovers and the International Partnership Program for Aerospace* ” (Guerron)

Jakin Jeong: “A Sick Anomaly: Reevaluating the Relationship Between the Economy and the Stock Market in the Pandemic” (Ireland)

Chenghan Lu: “Monetary and Fiscal Policy During Covid*” (Ireland)

James Monahan: “The Profitability of the Legalization of Sports Gambling for New States” (McGowan)

April 13

Yujia Shi: “How do the big tech acquisitions impact the venture capital market in the AI industry?” (Murry)

Katherine (Jiayu) Yan: “What are the effects of pandemic supply chain disruption in the automotive industry?” (Murry)

William Crowley: “Uncertainty in Inflation: What Kind of Landing Are We Heading Towards?” (McHugh)

April 20  (Note: Class starts at 8:15 a.m.)

Zhuoran (Grace) Liu: “Invisible Gap: Gender Wage Differentials in Modern China” (Rutledge)

Will Ortyl: “Closing the SNAP Gap: Under-Participation in SNAP Among Low-Income College Students” (Rutledge)

Grace Wagner: “Barriers to Build: Procedural Requirements and Housing Development in Greater Boston” (Rutledge)

Luke DeMartin: “Systematic Behavioral Biases in Major League Baseball Umpiring” (Maxwell)

Haolun Huang: “Exploring Dynamic Pricing in the U.S. Rideshare Industry” (Maxwell)

April 25  (Note: Class starts at 8:15 a.m.)

Dominic Cischke: “ERC-20 Cryptocurrency Market Efficiency: Investigating High Frequency Efficiency Across Systematic Events - The Ethereum Merge and The Collapse of FTX” (Sanzenbacher)

Katie Garrett: “Marriage Equality and the Reported LGBT Hate Crimes Rate in the United States” (Sanzenbacher)

John Hayfron-Benjamin: “'Hidden diversity'  An analysis of income differences between African Americans and Nigerian Americans through the first and second generations” (Sanzenbacher)

Aman Sinha: “Inflation Targeting Venezuela’s Hyperinflation” (Sanzenbacher)

Julia Curtin: “Treating Two Epidemics: Mitigating OUD in Prisons with Public Policy” (Wesner)

April 27

Isabelle Bury: “Determinants of Recidivism for the Formerly Incarcerated” (Quinn)

Nadia Capolino: “Working Women: Will the Long-term impacts of Covid-19 be beneficial in the fight for gender equality?” (Quinn)

Andrew Pitten: “What Factors Mitigate Adverse Localized Effects of Trade Exposure with China” (Quinn)

Yunhui (Sunny) Sun: “The impact of Housing Prices on Chinese Fertility Rate: Looking for Possible Solutions to China's Aging Society Problem” (Quinn)