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Honors Prize and Award Winners

2020

Author Award Thesis Title
Lorenzon, Marco Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation Sleepy Surgeons: Resident Duty-Hour Reforms Reduce Patient Mortality
Shankar, Nikhil Stanford University Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Adult Education and Missing Women. Evidence from India’s Saakshar Bharat Literacy Program
Zhang, Hugh John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking A Simple Adaptive Procedure Converging to Forgiving Correlated Equilibria

2019

Author Award Thesis Title
Hoong, Ruru (Juan Ru) Stanford University Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research The Behavioral Economics of Social Media: A Study of Self Commitment Devices and the Facebook Privacy Paradox
Horsley, John Barr Stanford University Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation Cleanliness: The Impact of Moral Foundations Theory’s Sanctity/Degradation on Decision Making
Martin, Olivia Hope Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis Understanding the Geography of Housing Instability: Eviction and Affordable Housing Development
Mulaney, Annika John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking Female Political Representation and Labor Force Participation in India
Pienkny, Max Bennett Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis Confronting Suicide: Clustering, County-Level Correlates, and Media Effects in the United States
Selden, Genevieve John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking Market Timing: A Myth or a Possibility? Individual Investor and Mutual Fund Performance in the Stock Market
Sridhar, Kiran Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis Hacking for Good: Leveraging HackerOne Data to Develop an Economic Model of Bug Bounties
Tejeda, Manuel David Stanford University Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation Market Concentration, Earnings and Turnover: No-Poaching Clauses in the Quick Service Restaurant Industry
Yeung, Vicky Stanford University Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Can You, and Should You, Buy an Innovation Hub?

2018

Author Award Thesis Title
Chayavivatkul, Pavin Stanford University Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation Insider Trading: A Quantitative Analysis of Premature Market Reactions in Thailand’s Stock Exchanges
Holderness, George Clifford Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis Confronting America's Opioid Crisis: Measuring the Impacts of State Laws on Opioid Misuse
Wang, Michael John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking Header Bidding and Auctions with Intermediaries
Zhang, Laura David M. Kennedy Honors Thesis Prize and Stanford University Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Evidence from U.S. Highways

2017

Author Award Thesis Title
Coolbaugh, Jack John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking Voting Determinants of Brexit: How Trade and Immigration Affected the Vote Share for Brexit across the UK
Marchetti-Bowick, Elena Anna Laura Myers Prize for an Outstanding Thesis Does Welfare Reduce Mortality? Evidence from the Supplemental Security Income Program
Puri, Indira Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research On the probability of receiving a top choice match
Sánchez-Ordóñez, Daniel Ernesto Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research International Monetary Policy Spillover in Colombia: An SVAR Analysis