Coen Award Winners
Betty Dong
Thesis title:
“Social Influences on Consumer Purchases: A Study of Cafe Consumption of University Students”
Ila Gupta
Thesis title:
“Early Childhood Shocks in Ghana: Evidence on Physical Health and Cognitive Development”
Theodore Mahlum
Thesis title:
“Estimating the Potential Gains from Trade in Washington State’s Illiquid Market for Water”
Darran Shen
Thesis title:
“Urban Currents: Upstream Pollution and Its Intercity Population Impacts Along the Mississippi River”
Steven Wilke
Thesis title:
“Music Conservatories and Universities: An analysis of the educational background of professional orchestra musicians and the earnings of music graduates”
Deibler Award Winners
Phoebe Cahill
Yuhan Jin
Steven Wilke
Trent Zhang
Erica Zhou
Eisner Award Winners
Emma Chiu
Thesis title:
“The Impacts of Teacher Turnover: A Comparative Study of Public and Charter Schools in Illinois”
Honors Recipients
Alexandre Brunet
Thesis title:
“Bank Runs & Optimal Deposit Insurance with Heterogeneous Depositors”
Michael Canmann
Thesis title:
“Returns to Payroll and the “Moneyball Effect”: A Comparative Analysis of MLB and the NBA”
Emma Chiu
Thesis title:
“The Impacts of Teacher Turnover: A Comparative Study of Public and Charter Schools in Illinois”
Betty Dong
Thesis title:
“Social Influences on Consumer Purchases: A Study of Cafe Consumption of University Students”
Rob Dubinski
Thesis title:
“DQN with Action Embeddings for Multiplayer Catan”
Emilya Ershtein
Thesis title:
“Effect of Merit Aid on Savings”
Sam Essex
Thesis title:
“Impact of Temperature on Crime Counts Across Spatial Subunits of Chicago”
Carolyne Geng
Thesis title:
“Do Students Tend to Choose “Similar” Languages?: Examining Linguistic Distance and Language Substitution’s Impact on Language Enrollment Differentiation”
Ila Gupta
Thesis title:
“Early Childhood Shocks in Ghana: Evidence on Physical Health and Cognitive Development”
Anjani Gusman
Thesis title:
“Evaluating Urban Environmental Policy in Indonesia: The Impact of Emissions Trading and the Mass Rapid Transit System on Air Quality”
Felix Haba Redondo
Thesis title:
“Price Transparency in Health Care: Evaluating the Transparency in Coverage Rule”
Amey Haridhas
Thesis title:
“Economic Endzones: How the Raiders Reshaped Regional Economies”
Katie He
Thesis title:
“Effects of Medicaid Coverage of GLP-1 Agonist Drugs on Measures of Racial Disparity”
Jason Huang
Thesis title:
“How does creativity affect moment-by-moment happiness, life satisfaction, and income for college seniors and graduates?”
Yuhan Jin
Thesis title:
“The Impact of RMB Internationalization on the Long-term RMB Exchange Rate Volatility”
Charlotte Konopko
Thesis title:
“Self-Affirmation through Aesthetic Products: Exploring the Links between Self-Concept, Aesthetics, and Consumer Behavior”
Sohyun Lee
Thesis title:
“Bayesian Persuasion as the Streisand Effect in the Film Rating Industry”
Theodore Mahlum
Thesis title:
“Estimating the Potential Gains from Trade in Washington State’s Illiquid Market for Water”
Lily Nevo
Thesis title:
“Policing and intimate partner violence”
Alex Paine
Thesis title:
“Sky-high latte prices: Limitations on double marginalization in airport concessions”
William Pattie
Thesis title:
“A Novel Polynomial Tree Model for Regression”
Meghna Phalke
Thesis title:
“The Impact of Emotionally Targeted Imaging on Donor Behavior”
Peaux Popell
Thesis title:
“The Effect of Copyright Term Extension on Creative Productivity”
Anirudh Poranki
Thesis title:
“Spirituality at Northwestern: Examining the Factors Behind the Rise of Students Identifying as Spiritual But Not Religious from Freshman to Senior Year”
Chris Rascoe
Thesis title:
“Geographic and Organizational Determinants of Wage Rates in the Market for Airline Pilots”
Emma Rosenbaum
Thesis title:
“Climate Policy Diffusion: The Unintended Consequences of State Policies on Local Government Actions”
Abe Rubin
Thesis title:
“Examining the Relationship Between Previous Voting Behavior and Moderate Ideological Identification”
Darran Shen
Thesis title:
“Urban Currents: Upstream Pollution and Its Intercity Population Impacts Along the Mississippi River”
Thomas Stanton
Thesis title:
“How Did the Pitch Clock Affect Pitcher Performance?”
Carlos Ernesto Vasquez Arbizu
Thesis title:
“The impact of credit scores on consumption smoothing”
Victor Wei
Thesis title:
“The effect of legalizing recreational marijuana on labor market”
Steven Wilke
Thesis title:
“Music Conservatories and Universities: An analysis of the educational background of professional orchestra musicians and the earnings of music graduates”
Steve (Jiajun) Ye
Thesis title:
“The Impact of the One-child Policy on Industrial Productivity Growth in China”
Rachel Yoon
Thesis title:
“The Increasing Intensity & Duration of Harmful Algae Blooms on the West Coast of Florida: an Empirical Study on the Global Warming and the Effects on Permanent Migration and Transitory Tourism”