2018-2019 Distinction Students
- Eden Afework - Understanding the Relationship between Height and Labor Market Outcomes
- Hannah Gross - Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die: World Series Success and Effects on Survival of Major League Baseball Players
- Molly Kerstetter - The Effect of Mandated Fertility Treatments on Female Wages
- Sunlee Stechuk - Social Capital Investment on Refugees and Economic Immigrants
- Cameron Taylor - Unintended Consequences: Assessing the Realized Impact of Dodd-Frank
2017-2018 Distinction Students
- Matteo Nadalutti - Widening The Wage Gap? Repeal Of Equal Employment Opportunity Programs And The Controversy Of California Proposition 209
- Grant Webster - The Effect of Socio-Economic Status in the Obesity Epidemic, Weight Recognition, and Weight Management
- Kyle Putnam - Determinants of Employment and Earning for Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
- Leigh-Anne Barreira - Adolescent Psychological Distress on Employment Outcomes
- Valerie R. Boctor - Reevaluating the Life Cycle/Permanent Income Hypothesis: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey
- Lixiao Shan - The Effect of the Unemployment rate on the Homeownership Rate
2016-2017 Distinction Students
- Nathalie Abigail Budiman - The Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on US Immigrant Labor Market Characteristics
- Jeffrey Gould - A Statistical Analysis on the Impact of Marijuana Legalization on the Work Place and Drug Overdose Fatalities
- Canming Jiang - The Effect of Parent Characteristics on College Major
- Wyatt Suling - The Impact of Victim and Perpetrator Characteristics on Kidnapping Outcomes in Colombia 1970-2010
2015-2016 Distinction Students
- Taylar Cobb - The Effect of the 2008 Financial Crisis on Depression: Does the State of the Local Economy Affect Mental Health in Americans?
- Tianhao Lan - Abnormal Returns and Intensity of Share Pledging in the Chinese-Mainland Stock Market
- Li Cheng Li - The lntertemporal Substitution of Leisure: The Effects of Temperature on Hours of Work
- Eashaa D. Parekh - Women, Work, and Wages: The Labor Market Effects of Equal Pay Laws
- Matthew Pietz - Bruised Ballots: A Study of Violent Crime and Voter Participation in the U.S.
- Bryce Scott VanderBerg - Examining the Marginal Effect of Right-to-Work Legislation on Traditionally Highly Unionized States: An Examination from the Current Population Survey
- Yuqing Xie - Is Attitude Shaped More by Culture or Economic Events? Eastern and Western Europeans' Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and the Great Recession
- Mengran Zhang - Migration at the Provincial Level in China: Effects of the Economic Motivation and Migration Cost
2014-2015 Distinction Students
- Valdrin Berisha - Immigrant Families Language Acquisition - Effects from Children
- Kevin Donovan - Estimating the Causal Effect of Clinical Recommendations on Screening and Vaccination Decisions
- Lidia Medina - An Indentured Generation? The Effect of Student Debt on Entrepreneurship
2013-2014 Distinction Students
- Kenneth Arbuckle - The Impact of Arrest on Expectations of Educational Attainment and Criminal Punishment
- Elizabeth Larimore - The Effect of Minimum Wage Increases on Adolescent Smoking Rates
- Ke Xu - The Effect of Macroeconomic Conditions on Applications to Supplemental Security Income
2012-2013 Distinction Students
- Joseph Andrade - Labor Market Assimilation: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
- Alex Curthoys - Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on hate Crime
- Brendon Dunham - The Effect of Minimum Wage on Youth Smoking
- Sam Giber - The Impact of Macroeconomic Events on Microfinance Institutions
- Benjamin Hatch - The Effects of Sex Offenders on Housing Sales Prices
- Joseph Smeeding - Single Mothers Labor Supply Response to the EITC
2011-2012 Distinction Students
- Forrest Ball - An Analysis of Classification Policy in the United States
- Stephen Alexander Barton - Measuring Sex Trafficking from Russia to the U.S.
- Yuk Ki Chau - Predicting Housing Prices using Lagged Regressions with Leading Indicators
- Ryan Michael Daddi - The 1999 Repeal of Glass-Steagall: The Effect on U.S. Commercial Banks
- Oriana I. Fuentes - The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Sovereign Debt Sustainability in Latin America
- Qiu Jin - Substitution in Spousal Age: Evidence from the Great Chinese Famine
- Bonnie Kong - Is Elitism a Myth? A Study of New York City Specialized High Schools
- Chuanyi Tang - An Examination of Causal Relation between War and Crude Oil Price: Evidence from Iraq and Libya
2010-2011 Distinction Students
- Alexander J. Brozdowski - The Effects of Trade Openness on Per Capita GDP during Banking Crises
- Emily Alice Larson - Hurricane Katrina's Impact on Louisiana's Educational Systems
- Mengchu Ye - Chinese Manufacturing Profits and Costs under the Economic Openness and the Labor Law Reform
- Renyong Zhang - The Impacts of Regional Economic Agreements on the Trade of Agricultural Products: ASEAN FTA, NAFTA
- Leyla Ziad - The Effects of Walmart on Healthcare and Unionization: Is America Really Saving Money and Living Better?
- Melanie A. Zilora - Preventing Pandemics: Contributing Factors to Susceptibility During the H1N1 Pandemic
2009-2010 Distinction Students
- Auyon Ghosh - Do CT Scans help prevent cancer-related deaths?
- Scott Kuzdeba - Estimating the Effect of Terrorism on Stock Prices
- Ann Dunnavan O'Neill - Chinese Job Growth and Workers' Injury Compensation in China
- Rita M. Pattarini - The Influence of New Medications on Prescribing Behavior by Practice Type: A Regression Analysis
- Drew Sullivan - The Interrelation of Box Office Results: How does one weekend's movie attendance affect the next?
- Daniel Weistrop - The Effects of Winning a Basketball National Championship on Admission Factors
2008-2009 Distinction Students
- Mallory McDermott - The Effect of Tuition on Higher Education Enrollment and Qualifications in England
- John Rogers - The Effect of Compulsory Attendance Laws and Quarter Birth of Education and Returns on Education in the Labor Market
- Benjamin Skomsky - Measuring the Effect of Conflict on Oil Production and Prices
- Mallory Vachon - Effects of the European Union on Foreign Direct Investment
- C. Wyatt Wolfram - Theory and Evidence on the Evolution of the Digital Music Industry
2007-2008 Distinction Students
- Alexei Abrahams - The Economics of Fresh Water in the West Bank
- Gustave A. Bartuska - Rehab or Relocation? Estimating the Demand for Cocaine through an American Port City Analysis
- Mark Fegley - The 2005 Bankruptcy Policy and Real Estate Speculation
- Marko Markov - The Shortfalls of Chinese Monetary Policy
- Devin McBride - The Effect of Mall Development on American Cities: An Examination of Changes in Employment and Wages due to the Introduction of a Super-Regional Mall
2006-2007 Distinction Students
- Jonathan Baselice - Salary Caps in Professional Sports: Do They Promote Competition Among Teams?
- Stephanie Good - Does Assigned Attorney Type Matter for Indigent Defendants? Evidence from Selected Countries
- Baker Gregory - The Price Elasticity of Demand for Tax Paid Cigarettes: A Comparison of Methods
- Clay Rehrig - Earnings Effects of Sexual Orientation Revisited: Evidence from the Current Population Survey
2005-2006 Distinction Students
- Amy Brundage - Bridging the Digital Divide: The Maine Learning Technology Initiative and Student Performance
- Melissa Clune - Do PAC Contributions Buy Policy? The Case of CAFTA
- Jeff Evans - Information for Profit: Can an Investing Strategy Based on Revisions in Earnings Estimates Earn Abnormal Returns?
- Brian Hecht - Credit Card Interest Rates: Do Race and Gender Matter?
- Christiane LaBonte - Do Children's Hospitals Have Lower Mortality Rates? Evidence from the 2003 Kids' Inpatient Database
2004-2005 Distinction Students
- Nishad H. Majmudar - Credit Crunched: Does Bank Consolidation Harm the Small Business Borrower?
- Brian McNeil - The College Football Gambling Market - An Empirical Approach
- Paul W. Swartz - Is More Information Better? FOMC Press Releases and Internet Rate Expectations
- Lok Y Yeung - Are Girls a Luxury in China?
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