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Department of Economics
School of Humanities and Sciences

Honors Prize and Award Winners

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
Prazad, Saketh Firestone Medal Fed Transparency: A Sentiment Analysis Approach
Rodrigues, Clara Kennedy Thesis Prize and Firestone Medal Differential Treatment of Politically Connected Labor Traffickers
Wittenbrink, Benjamin Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis Analyzing Candidates’ Ideological Messaging Throughout the Electoral Cycle
2021
Author Award Thesis Title
Dinshaw, Claire Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation Do Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) live up to the hype?
Grondin, Armelle Marie-Naniette Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis Misallocation of Capital across Firm Size in Developing Countries
Ramani, Arjun Firestone Medal and David M. Kennedy Honors Thesis Prize The Donut Effect: How work-from-home impacts migration patterns and real estate markets
Wang, Amanda John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking Organizational Structure and Decision-Making in Corporate Venture Capital
2020
Author Award Thesis Title
Arbuthnott, Emily Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis Safe as Houses? The Impact of the Brexit Vote on London's Role as a Property Safe Haven
Collison, Jack Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis The Impact of Online Food Delivery Services on Restaurant Sales
Cooper, Bella Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis A Deficit of Due Process: Racial Bias within Death Penalty Sentencing in Harris County, Texas
Fronsdal, Toren David M. Kennedy Honors Thesis Prize and Stanford University Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Variation in Health Care Prices Across Public and Private Payers
Kashner, Zane John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking School District Boundaries and Segregation: Evidence from Secessions
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