Honors Projects
Many Economics majors choose to complete an Honors project on a topic of their interest. Most or all of the work associated with an Honors project is done in the senior year, though it may be begun earlier, and culminates in a research or critical paper or its counterpart in the creative arts.
Here’s a sampling of what some of our students have worked on:
- William Roger Lewis '23: Quantifying Racial Disparity in Indoor Environmental Quality
Christina Houseworth, Adviser - Caroline Reid Martocci '22: Institutional Student Housing Securitization Feasibility at Hobart and Willliam Smith Colleges
Feisal Khan, Adviser - Julia Ann Ricciarelli ’21: MMT and the Job Guarantee: An Institutionalist Assessment
Jacob Powell, Adviser - Brian A. Schaumloffel ’20: Beyond Industrialization: An Alternative Approach for Transitioning of the East Asia Growth Model
William Waller, Adviser - John Matthew C. Camara ’19: “Ethnic Enclaves: Wage Premium or Wage Penalty for Second Generation Asian Americans?”
Prof. Judith McKinney, Adviser - Lindsey Mulligan ’18: “Humanity at Work: The Social Implications of Technological Advancements”
Keoka Grayson, Adviser - Clinton Dunn ’17: “Major League Discrimination: Wage Premiums for International and Designed Players in Major League Soccer”
Prof. Christina Houseworth, Adviser - Jacob A. Powell ’14: “The Origins of Crisis – A Marxian Analysis from 1970s to the Great Financial Crisis”
Joseph Rebello, Adviser - Michael D. Green ’14: “A Mathematical Model of College Friendships”
Yan Hao, Adviser - Yuqi Ge ’14: “Art Finance and Economic Crisis: A Study of Capital Gains on Art Sales”
Warren Hamilton, Adviser