The following list includes the names of Dickinsonians who have earned departmental honors, the thesis/project title, and the year of conferral. If there is no thesis or project title, the conferring department only will be listed. Each academic department (or program) has its own criteria for awarding departmental honors. Please see the Advising Guide or elsewhere on the department’s main website for details.
Yingying Cao (2023)
Purchase Restrictions and Housing Prices in China
Trang Ha Do (2023)
The China Trade Shock and Its Impact on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility
Trang Huong Dang (2022)
Empirical Evidence of Herding Behavior in the U.S. Stock Market During Economic Crises
Lillian E Zeitlin (2021)
Impacts of Urbanization on Small-Scale Agricultural Operations in Central Pennsylvania
Dustin Michael Bishop (2020)
Rural Economic Development in the Mid-Atlantic
Chuling Huang (2019)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the 2014 Chinese Hukou Reform
Grant Jensen Shearer (2019)
Is Winning a Necessity for Financial Success in the Cycling Industry
Joana Peixoto Nunes (2017)
The Effect of Sporting Public Expenditures on Medal Share at the Summer Olympic Games: A Study of the Differential Impact by Sport and Gender
Yuanxiaoyue Yang (2017)
Econometric Analysis of NOx Trading Programs in Pennsylvania
Jason Allen Gates (2015)
Fees and Fairness: Medicaid Reimbursements and Patient Outcomes
Johnathan Titus Jones (2015)
Gender and the Great Recession: A Critical Look at the Causes, Outcomes, and Policy Responses
Nolan Alexander Funchion (2014)
Risk-Based IPO Underpricing in the U.S. Post-Dotcom Era: Evidence from Asymmetric Information & Uncertainty in the Pre-IPO Process
Misha Garg (2012)
Education in India and South Korea: A comparative analysis from a Gender and Development Perspective
Jenna Wrae Long (2012)
Comparative Analysis of Modern Recessions: Explaining the Less-Than-Great Recovery from the Great Recession
Devin Philip Quinn (2012)
The Role of Military in the U.S. Economy
Chandan Sapkota (2009)
Growth Diagnostics and its Application to the Nepalese Economy
Manuel Ignacio Saralegui (2009)
Towards a new "locus enunciacionis": The Dependency Debate in Latin America
Jason Robert Foltin (2008)
Establishing a Contextual Model Explaining the Relationship Between Income and Happiness
Emily Robin Meuwissen (2008)
The Adoption of the U.S. Minimum Wage: Economic, Social, and Political Considerations
Emmanuel Essah Acquaah (2007)
The Connection Between Property Rights to Land and Microfinance Expansion
Chris Aaron Dumbroski (2007)
Keyes and Ohlin: The Transfer Debate
Rebecca Kealoha Breeden (2006)
Departmental Honors in Economics
Donald C Morton (2006)
Departmental Honors in Economics
Edward Bowman Mulligan (2004)
Factors Affecting Pay in Major League Baseball
Caleb Carr Beckford (2003)
Departmental Honors in Economics
David Seth Shotlander (2002)
The Social Security Program in the United States
Justin Robert Falk (1998)
Departmental Honors in Economics
Laurence Eric Sussman (1996)
A Theoretical and Empirical Approach to the Question of the Burden of the Budget Deficit and the National Debt
Nicholas Joseph DiFiore (1994)
Departmental Honors in Economics
David Boyd Hughes (1991)
The Flexible Exchange Rate Regime
Joseph J Lisa (1989)
Japanese Duality: A Geo-Cultural Study of the Japanese Economy 1945-1989
Sam Y Hwang (1980)
The Growth with Equity Development Model: The Korean Experience
Robert C Lightburn (1974)
What Program of Action will Solve the Crisis of Inflationary Prices and Inefficient Organization of the Medical Care Industry?
Robert F Stambaugh (1974)
Bayesian Analysis of Polynomial Distributed Lags
Robert L Thomas (1968)
Economies of Scale and the Banking Industry with Reference to Bank Expansion in the 1960's
James R Kistler (1967)
A Study in the Economics of Education and in the Optimum Size of a Secondary Instructional Unit
J Lawrence Bayley (1965)
John R. Commons: An Examination of his Conclusions Regarding the Effects of Immigration 1880-1920
R Alan Medaugh (1965)
Participation of the United States Chemical Industry in International Cartel Agreements -1929 to 1940
Ralph E Smith (1965)
The Federal Government's Relations with its Organized Civil Servants
John R Gates (1964)
A Theory of Economic Development with a Case Study of Venezuela
David L Reichard (1964)
The Tax Status of Travel and Entertainment Expenses