Class of 2023 Honors Students in Economics

The following students from the Class of 2023 have earned the honors designation in the Department of Economics after successfully completing their honors theses (six of which earned high honors):

High Honors:

Kate Anderson

“Disability and Net Assets: The Heterogeneous Effects of Private Health Insurance in United States Households”

(Faculty Adviser: Takao Kato)

Andrew Derrickson

“Gift Exchange and Worker Productivity-An Econometric Case Study from a Manufacturing Firm in Coastal China”

(Faculty Adviser: Takao Kato)

Sam Kaplan

“An Evaluation of Medicaid Expansion and its Relationship to Cancer Mortality”

(Faculty Adviser: Carolina Castilla)

Tedi Totojani

“Do Self-Reported Measures of Field-of-Study Mismatch Inflate the Wage Penalty? Evidence using O*NET Data”

(Faculty Adviser: Takao Kato and Yang Song)

Corey VanDoren

“The Impact of Inflation Targeting on Macroeconomic Performance During Recessions”

(Faculty Adviser: Rich Higgins)

Jason Wang

“The Effect of Shared Capitalism on the Wealth of People with Disabilities”

(Faculty Adviser: Takao Kato)

Honors:

Max Edelstein

“Finding Front Doors: Program evaluation with Observational Data from El Salvador”

(Faculty Adviser: David Murphy and Pierce Donovan )