Honors Prize and Award Winners

2024
Author	Award	Thesis Title
Bower, Brennan	Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research	The Role of Financial Participants in the Renewable Energy Transition
Hou, Emma	Anna Laura Meyers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis	Did the Paycheck Protection Program Reduce Business Closures? Evidence from California
Jankelow, Joshua	Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation	Back To The Withdrawing Board: Using Deposit Data to Predict U.S. Bank Failures
Luo, Claire	Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research	Anti-Collusion Provision for Uniform-Price Auctions
Manna, Ivy	John G. Sobieski Prize for Creative Thinking in Economics	Media Moods & Market Moves: The Impact of Newspaper Climate Sentiment on U.S. Sectoral Stock Returns
Schiller, Samantha	John G. Sobieski Prize for Creative Thinking in Economics	Congressional Term Limits: The Effect of Redistricting on a House of Representative Member’s Effort
Zhao, Linan	Anna Laura Meyers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis	CATE Estimation with Imbalanced Covariates

2023
Author	Award	Thesis Title
Brown, Drakos	Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis	Commodity Prices and Growth: Do Cobalt Price Shocks Fuel Night Light Expansion in the DRC?
Casey, Sean	John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking	To the Best of My Abilities and Understanding: Do Legal Credentials Affect Sentencing Decisions in South Carolina?
Finan, Alexander	Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation	The Afternoon Fun Economy
Garcia, Nicolas	Firestone Medal	The Effect of COVID-19 on Human Capital in a Team Setting: Evidence from the VA
Hildebrand, Natalie	John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking	Testimonial Advertisements and Willingness to Pay: The Role of Gender and Presentation
Parell, Jackson	John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking	Burned: Measuring the Effects of Wildfires on Suicide
Park, Julia	Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis	Cloud services and the performance of small firms
Soni, Pratham	Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis	Where, Who, and How? Understanding Spatial Effects on Auction Outcomes and Bidder Strategy in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I Auction (Auction 904)

2022
Author	Award	Thesis Title
Bhattacharya, Jodie	Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation	College Student Elasticity: The Impact of Job Openings on College Major Decisions
Healy, Christopher	Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis	SNEAD: Solving Nash Equilibria with Adversarial Deviation
Kohler, John	John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking	Modeling Vaccination as a Diffusion Process: The Effect of the Johnson & Johnson Pause in Vaccine Hesitancy
Lee, Arthur	Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis	A Multi-Phase School Choice Mechanism: Theory and Practice
Paris, Julia	John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking	Following the Money? The Impact of Educational Spending on Student Achievement in Saskatchewan, Canada