"Political Participation After a Mass Protest Movement: Evidence from the Arab Spring," Stanford Economic Review, Summer 2021 Volume 9

"Policy Proposal: Subsidizing Public Transportation for Low Income Workers," Cornell Undergraduate Economic Review, Spring 2021 Issue

For my senior thesis in economics, I used World Bank World Development Indicators, the World Values Survey, and Arab Barometer to conduct a difference-in-differences analysis of political participation in the Middle East before and after the Arab spring. Using the Arab Spring as a natural experiment, I explored differences in factors such as age, education level, and employment opportunities among people with high versus low levels of political engagement and likelihood of engaging in activities such as protesting. I compared these factors for individuals in countries that experienced large-scale protests in 2011 ("treatment" group) to individuals in countries that are in the same region but were unaffected ("control" group). The code is written in Stata.

My thesis was published in the summer 2021 issue of Stanford's undergraduate economics journal, Comparative Advantage.