Honors Prize and Award Winners

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
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