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Development economics, research proposal.
The maximum length of the write-up should be 3 pages single-spaced (but less is fine). The goal of this research proposal is to give you a “jump start” on working on a topic that you could (ideally) work on for your second-year paper (or a future paper for your dissertation). If you are in the second year, it is okay for you to talk about the topic that you will be working on for your second-year paper. It should be development though… (but as you know development is a big tent).
You can co-author the proposal with any student(s) in the program. However, we would like to see as many proposals as people in the class.
Note that the deadline is the last possible date that we are allowed to accept assignments under end of term regulations, so we will not be able to provide extensions. Please therefore budget your time wisely.
The proposal should include
- A clear statement of your research question
- Brief motivation of your research question a. Why is this question important? b. What is the policy implication? c. What (if any) economic theory it is testing?
- (Short) Review of the relevant theoretical and/or empirical literature.
- Description of your proposed empirical strategy and proposed (realistic) data sources. a. You can propose an RCT where you’d collect the data, as long as it is realistic for a PhD student (not necessarily in the scope of a second year paper). b. If you project is empirical, write-out clearly and in detail what are the proposed regression specifications.
- Clear discussion of your contribution to the prior literature.
- Clear discussion of what challenges you expect to encounter.
Think of this project as the shell of a research paper that contains everything but your findings: you will motivate the question; place it in the literature; and lay out your data sources (if any) and your research design. We do not expect to see any preliminary results (for empirical papers) or fully fledged model (for theory paper).
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School of Economics
Writing a research proposal.
Developing a research proposal is a necessary part of the application process it:
- provides a basis for decision-making;
- helps to make sure that you get the most appropriate supervisor for your research.
Your research proposal does not commit you to researching in a specific area if your application is successful.
Following a successful application, you need to provide a more comprehensive proposal which will be useful reference as your research develops.
How to write a research proposal
Organise your proposal should around a small set of ideas or hypotheses that you would like to investigate. Provide some evidence of relevant background reading if possible.
A typical research proposal might look something like this:
- Rationale for the research project, including: a description of the phenomenon of interest, and the context(s) and situation in which you think the research will take place; an explanation of why the topic is of interest to the author; and an outline of the reasons why the topic should be of interest to research and/ or practice (the 'so what?' question); a statement of how the research fits in with that of potential supervisor(s) in the School of Economics.
- Issues and initial research question. Within the phenomenon of interest: what issue(s) do you intend to investigate? (This may be quite imprecise at the application stage); what might be some of the key literatures that might inform the issues (again, indicative at the application stage); and, as precisely as you can, what is the question you are trying to answer?
- Intended methodology: How do you think you might go about answering the question? Do you have a preference for using quantitative methods such as survey based research, or for qualitative methods such as interviews and observation?
- Expected outcomes: how do you think the research might add to existing knowledge; what might it enable organisations or interested parties to do differently?
- Timetable: What is your initial estimation of the timetable of the dissertation? When will each of the key stages start and finish (refining proposal; literature review; developing research methods; fieldwork; analysis; writing the draft; final submission). There are likely to overlaps between the stages.
An initial research proposal that forms part of a PhD application should be between 600 and 1,000 words in length.
Research Proposal Example/Sample
Detailed Walkthrough + Free Proposal Template
If you’re getting started crafting your research proposal and are looking for a few examples of research proposals , you’ve come to the right place.
In this video, we walk you through two successful (approved) research proposals , one for a Master’s-level project, and one for a PhD-level dissertation. We also start off by unpacking our free research proposal template and discussing the four core sections of a research proposal, so that you have a clear understanding of the basics before diving into the actual proposals.
- Research proposal example/sample – Master’s-level (PDF/Word)
- Research proposal example/sample – PhD-level (PDF/Word)
- Proposal template (Fully editable)
If you’re working on a research proposal for a dissertation or thesis, you may also find the following useful:
- Research Proposal Bootcamp : Learn how to write a research proposal as efficiently and effectively as possible
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PS – If you’re working on a dissertation, be sure to also check out our collection of dissertation and thesis examples here .
FAQ: Research Proposal Example
Research proposal example: frequently asked questions, are the sample proposals real.
Yes. The proposals are real and were approved by the respective universities.
Can I copy one of these proposals for my own research?
As we discuss in the video, every research proposal will be slightly different, depending on the university’s unique requirements, as well as the nature of the research itself. Therefore, you’ll need to tailor your research proposal to suit your specific context.
You can learn more about the basics of writing a research proposal here .
How do I get the research proposal template?
You can access our free proposal template here .
Is the proposal template really free?
Yes. There is no cost for the proposal template and you are free to use it as a foundation for your research proposal.
Where can I learn more about proposal writing?
For self-directed learners, our Research Proposal Bootcamp is a great starting point.
For students that want hands-on guidance, our private coaching service is recommended.
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Research proposals
Writing a research proposal requires students to demonstrate a high level of knowledge and analytical thought. Students must choose a specific aspect of the course material to investigate, and ask an original question, which can increase their engagement and interest. This assesses students' understanding of the subject area, their capacity to perform a literature review, their evaluation of possible research tools, and their development of a research question. In addition, the course can require the student to carry out the project they propose, as another assessment task. Assessing the proposal as a separate task earlier in the year ensures the students are on a productive path, helps the students to plan their time, and can also deter academic misconduct by demonstrating authorship. Research-related assessments can support the students' later work on a dissertation. This can be in terms of skills alone or both skills and content the research proposal informs the final-year dissertation.
Advantages of research proposals
Learning through research can lead to more engaged, critical and informed students than teaching by more didactic methods.
Learning about research methods can help students understand other courses more fully, and the 'nuts and bolts' of their discipline.
Becoming 'expert' in an area can increase students sense of autonomy in their learning, and can develop their confidence in articulating original arguments.
Developing a wider variety of types of writing and communication is useful for students' longer-term employability skills.
As a research proposal can be relatively short, it can be combined with peer feedback or presented in a different format such as a poster or an oral presentation.
Can be a good opportunity to introduce group work
Challenges of research proposals
Students more used to exams and essays may find a new format initially confusing.
Students may feel unsure of how to excel in this assessment method.
When students choose their own specific area to investigate, it carries the risk that the area will not be as productive as one pre-determined by their tutor as existing research literature on a topic may be sparse, for example.
How students might experience research proposals
Students may value the autonomy of creating a research proposal, and appreciate the insight it offers into their other courses, but experience anxiety at the novel assessment format. When students have undertaken specific, personal work, they can appreciate the opportunity of sharing their work with peers. LSE students in this situation report a sense of pride in their own and their cohort's work.
Reliability, validity, fairness and inclusivity of research proposals
As with any assessment, the learning outcomes of the course need to be well served by the method - setting clear criteria and communicating them with students. The weighting of the task also requires consideration. An essay may be a more substantial writing task, but a research proposal requires additional time to find relevant readings, and understand and evaluate research tools. If peers are expected to comment on one another's work, guidance on this should also be provided. As the projects will be varied, students may make more use of office hours or other one-to-one guidance from tutors. Students from educational backgrounds which do not prioritise 'original argument' may particularly struggle to understand what is required of them by an open-ended and personalised project. Putting students in contact with their relevant library liaison is another form of support for when they are locating material.
How to maintain and ensure rigour in research proposals
Research proposals should be marked and moderated in accordance with departmental practice. Criteria should be established in advance and shared with students. Research proposals can provide a chance to excel in one area and underperform in others (e.g. a strong original argument combined with weak use of sources) therefore a clear marking system should help keep students (and staff) working (and marking) in line with the expected outcomes. Individual markers should take steps to avoid the problems which affect batch marking, such as the 'halo' effect where one or two positive characteristics of a student overly influence the marker.
How to limit possible misconduct in research proposals
Possible misconduct is comparable to other written assessment methods. The requirement for students to select their own sub-topic to work on means that assistance from previous cohorts will be of less use. As it is a novel form of assessment, students will also be less able to find existing examples online. Requiring students to submit early stages of the project – for example, an area of interest, an early research question - will require students to demonstrate authorship (and also allow tutors to intervene in projects which appear off-topic). Final submissions can make use of Turnitin to check against other student submissions, and against other possible sources (for example, article abstracts).
LSE examples
SO221 Researching London: Methods for Social Research
AN298 Research Methods in Social Anthropology
MY428 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis
Further resources
Healey, M. and Jenkins, A. (2009) Developing undergraduate research and inquiry
https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/developing-undergraduate-research-and-inquiry
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Curriculum and Thesis
In their first and second years, PhD students are required to complete a series of core classes, coursework in their major and minor fields of study, and an advanced research methods course before proceeding to the thesis-writing stage.
Core courses
Students must satisfy the requirements in at least 10 of 12 half-semester first-year core courses (14.384 and 14.385 are considered second-year courses). The requirements can be met by earning a grade of B or better in the class or by passing a waiver exam.
Waiver exams are offered at the start of the semester in which the course is offered and graded on a pass-fail basis. Students who receive a grade of B- or below in a class can consult the course faculty to determine whether to take the waiver exam or re-take the course the following year. These requirements must all be satisfied before the end of the second year.
Course list
- 14.121: Microeconomic Theory I
- 14.122: Microeconomic Theory II
- 14.123: Microeconomic Theory III
- 14.124: Microeconomic Theory IV
- 14.380: Statistical Methods in Economics
- 14.381: Estimation and Inference for Linear Causal and Structural Models
- 14.382*: Econometrics
- 14.384*: Time Series Analysis (2nd year course)
- 14.385*: Nonlinear Econometric Analysis (2nd year course)
- 14.451: Dynamic Optimization Methods with Applications
- 14.452: Economic Growth
- 14.453: Economic Fluctuations
- 14.454: Economic Crises
*Courses 14.382, 14.384, and 14.385 are each counted as two half-semester courses.
Most students will also take one or more field courses (depending on whether they are waiving core courses) during their first year. Feel free to ask your graduate research officer, field faculty, and advanced students for advice on how you structure your first-year coursework.
Second year students must also successfully complete the two-semester course 14.192: Advanced Research Methods and Communication. The course, which is graded on a pass-fail basis, guides students through the process of writing and presenting the required second-year research paper.
Major field requirement
By the end of year two, PhD students must complete the requirements for two major fields in economics. This entails earning a B or better in two designated courses for each field. Some fields recommend additional coursework or papers for students intending to pursue research in the field.
Major fields must be declared by the Monday following the spring break of your second year. Your graduate registration officer must approve your field selections.
Minor field requirement
PhD students are also required to complete two minor fields, taking two courses in each field and earning a grade of B or better. Your graduate registration officer must approve your field selections.
Minor coursework is normally completed by the end of year two, but in some cases students can defer the completion of one field until after general exams. Students must consult with their graduate registration officer before making a deferment.
Options for minor fields include the eleven economics major fields, plus computation and statistics (from the interdisciplinary PhD in Economics and Statistics).
Students who wish to satisfy one of the minor field requirements by combining two courses from different fields–for example, environmental economics and industrial organization II–can petition the second-year graduate registration officer for permission.
At least one minor field should be from the department’s standard field list.
The fields in which the Department offers specialization and the subjects that will satisfy their designation as a minor field are given in the chart below. Some fields overlap so substantially that both cannot be taken by a student. In any event, the same subject cannot be counted towards more than a single minor field. Students must receive the approval of their Graduate Registration Officer for their designated major and minor fields.
List of fields
- Development
- Econometrics
- Industrial organization
- International
- Macroeconomics
- Organizational
- Political economy
- Public finance
- Computation and statistics (minor only)
Subjects satisfying major and minor requirements
Advanced economic theory.
Minor: Any subset adding up to two full semesters from 14.125, 14.126, 14.127, 14.130, 14.137, 14.147, 14.160, 14.281 and Harvard Ec 2059. Major: At least two of 14.125, 14.126, 14.281, and Harvard Ec 2059. Recommended for major: 14.126, 14.281, and at least one of 14.125, 14.127, 14.130, 14.147, and Harvard Ec 2059.
Econometrics and Statistics
Minor: 14.382 in addition to one of 14.384 or 14.385. Major: Any one of 14.386, 14.387, 14.388 in addition to one of 14.384 or 14.385. Recommended for major: 14.384 and 14.385. *Dual PhD in Economics and Statistics has an additional requirement of 14.386.
Economic Development
Major and minor: 14.771 and 14.772 or 14.773
Minor: Any two of 14.416J, 14.440J, 14.441J, 14.442J, 14.448. Major: 14.416J and 14.441J
Industrial Organization
Minor: 14.271 and 14.272 or 14.273. Major: 14.271 and 14.272 or 14.273. Recommended for major: 14.271, 14.272, and 14.273.
International Economics
Major and minor: 14.581 and 14.582
Labor Economics
Major: 14.661 and 14.662A. Minor: Two subjects chosen from 14.193, 14.661, and 14.662
Monetary Economics
Major and minor: Two subjects chosen from 14.461, 14.462, and 14.463
Organizational Economics
Major and minor: 14.282 and one of 14.283-284, 14.441J, or an approved substitute
Political Economy
Major and minor: 14.770 and 14.773
Public Economics
Major and minor: 14.471 and 14.472
General exams
MIT requires doctoral candidates to complete an advanced course of study that includes general exams at its completion. Beginning in 2019-20, the Economics Department will operationalize this requirement to include successful completion of: the core and other required courses; course exams and other requirements of courses in each of a student’s two major and two minor fields; the written research paper and oral presentation components of 14.192. Students may present for the general exams while having one remaining minor field to complete. The faculty will review these components together with the candidate’s overall course record to determine whether students have passed the general exam requirement and can proceed to the thesis writing stage.
Typical course schedule
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Fall Semester
14.121/14.122 (Micro Theory I/II) 14.451/14.452 (Macro Theory I/II) 14.380/14.381 (Statistical Method in Economics & Applied Econometrics) Field Course (major or minor)
Spring Semester
14.123/14.124 (Micro Theory III/IV) 14.453/14.454 (Macro Theory III/IV) 14.382 (Econometrics) Field Course (major or minor)
2-3 Field Courses 14.192 (Advanced Research and Communication) 14.384 or 14.385 (Advanced Econometrics)
3 Field Courses 14.192 (Advanced Research and Communication)
Years 3 and up
Field workshop Field lunch Thesis writing
Upon satisfying the core and field requirements, PhD candidates embark on original research culminating in a completed dissertation. A PhD thesis normally consists of three research papers of publishable quality. The thesis must be approved by a student’s primary and secondary thesis advisors, and by an anonymous third reader. These three faculty members will be the candidate's thesis committee and are responsible for its acceptance. Collaborative work is acceptable and encouraged, but there must be at least one paper in the dissertation without a co-author who was a faculty member when the research started.
Criteria for satisfactory progress
Third-year students.
- Meet regularly with their advisor
- Participate consistently in their primary field advising lunch, their primary field workshop, and the third-year student research lunch
- Complete their third-year paper
- Participate in third-year meetings organized by the thesis graduate research officer
Students should present on their research in progress at least once in both the third-year student research lunches and their field advising lunch. Presentations provide opportunities for early and broad feedback on research ideas and the chance to develop oral presentation skills. Research ideas or early stage work in progress is encouraged and expected.
Fourth-year and later students
- Participate consistently in their primary field advising lunch and their primary field workshop
- Present at least once per year in their field advising lunch or field workshop. A presentation each semester in the field advising lunch is strongly recommended by most fields; consult your advisors for more information
Satisfactory progress toward a dissertation will be evaluated based on progress assessments by the student’s primary advisor, regular participation in the lunches and workshops, and field lunch or workshop presentations that show continued progress.
School of Social Sciences
Writing your economics research proposal
If you are applying to the Economics postgraduate research programme, you will need to submit a research proposal with your application.
The nature of your proposal will depend on when you apply.
The role of the proposal
For entry into Year 1 of the programme, the proposal is used to:
- identify your broad areas of interest;
- see if you have consulted relevant literature beyond the standard textbooks;
- obtain an impression of your ability to think critically;
- assess what motivates you to pursue a research degree in economics.
Proposal guidelines
For entry into Year 1 of the programme, the research proposal is expected to include the following:
- The research area with which you would expect to be affiliated;
- The member(s) of staff you would like to provide supervision (this information is also requested in the online application form under ‘Proposed research supervisor’); You are strongly encouraged to contact a preferred supervisor in advance of submitting an application to get their input into developing your research proposal.
- A description of the area in which you expect your eventual research to be. This should describe possible research questions you might address, and describe why you find them interesting and relevant. In so doing, you should relate the possible research questions to the extant literature in this area of economics;
- You should identify and address any potential ethical considerations in relation to your proposed research. Please discuss your research with your proposed supervisor to see how best to progress your ideas in line with University of Manchester ethics guidance, and ensure that your proposed supervisor is happy for you to proceed with your application;
- A bibliography of any journal articles and books to which you have referred;
- No more than 1500 words.
If you are seeking entry into Year 2 you are expected to have more developed research ideas. Your proposal will be used to assess:
- the quality and originality of your ideas;
- whether you are able to think critically;
- if you have a grasp of the relevant literature.
It will also give us:
- important information about the perspectives you intend to take in your research area;
- how you fit into the Economic department’s research profile;
- an idea how to allocate a supervisory team.
For entry into Year 2 of the programme, the research proposal is expected to include the following:
- The member(s) of staff you would like to provide supervision (this information is also requested in the online application form under ‘Proposed research supervisor’); You are strongly encouraged to contact a preferred supervisor prior to submitting your application to get their input into your research proposal.
- A detailed description of the area in which you expect your eventual research to be. This should describe the specific research questions you plan to address, the research methods you expect to use, and the expected data source for any empirical work planned.
The proposal should also:
- Describe why you find these research questions interesting and relevant, and relate the specific research questions to the extant literature in this area of economics;
- You should identify and address any potential ethical considerations in relation to your proposed research. Please discuss your research with your proposed supervisor to see how best to progress your ideas in line with University of Manchester ethics guidance, and ensure that your proposed supervisor is happy for you to proceed with your application.
- Around 1500 words. In exceptional cases proposals significantly exceeding the word limit will be accepted.
The University uses electronic systems to detect plagiarism and other forms of academic malpractice and for assessment. All Humanities PhD programmes require the submission of a research proposal as part of the application process. The Doctoral Academy upholds the principle that where a candidate approaches the University with a project of study, this should be original. While it is understandable that research may arise out of previous studies, it is vital that your research proposal is not the subject of plagiarism.
Allocation of supervisors
For Year 1 entrants, the proposal is used to allocate a preliminary supervisor to act as mentor during the first year of study. This person will normally also act as a supervisor and may also become your MSc-dissertation supervisor. The exact composition of your supervisory team will be decided by the end of Year 1.
You will not be forced to follow the proposal exactly once you have started to study. It is normal for students to refine their original proposal over time.
With this in mind, the composition of your supervisory team may also change. Please note that members of staff are only expected to provide supervision in areas that are of interest to them and admittance to the programme does not imply the provision of supervision on any topic devised by the student.
Further information
- How to write a personal statement
- Economics research area groups
- Find an economics supervisor
If you need help and advice about your application, contact the Postgraduate Admissions Team.
Admissions contacts
University guidelines
You may also find it useful to read the advice and guidance on the University website about writing a proposal for your research degree application.
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STATE-LOCAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING, MACROECONOMIC FISCAL POLICY, AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE , Amanda Page-Hoongrajok, Economics
Essays on Monetary Policy in Developing Countries: Income Distribution, Housing and Unemployment , Zhandos Ybrayev, Economics
Resource Rents, Public Investment and Economic Development: The Case of Bolivia , Raul Zelada Aprili, Economics
Dissertations from 2018 2018
Three Essays on Governments and Financial Crises in Developing Economies, 1870-1913 , Peter H. Bent, Economics
Constraining Labor's “Double Freedom”: Revisiting the Impact of Wrongful Discharge Laws on Labor Markets, 1979-2014 , Eric Hoyt, Economics
SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF ACCUMULATION IN TURKEY (1963 – 2015) , Osman C. Icoz, Economics
Stumbling Toward the Up Escalator: How Trends in International Trade, Investment, and Finance Have Complicated Latin America’s Quest for Sustainable, Diversified Economic Development , Mary Eliza Rebecca Ray, Economics
Forms of Naturalism in Seminal Neoclassical Texts: An Analysis and Comparison of Léon Walras, John Bates Clark, and William Stanley Jevons , Mark Silverman, Economics
THREE ESSAYS ON CHILD WELFARE IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE , Didier Wayoro, Economics
Dissertations from 2017 2017
Currency Mismatch and Balance Sheet Effects of Exchange Rate in Turkish Non-Financial Corporations , Serkan Demirkilic, Economics
The Impacts of Foreign Labor Migration of Men on Women's Empowerment in Nepal , Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar, Economics
Real and Nominal Effects of Exchange Rate Regimes , Emiliano Libman, Economics
Three Essays on International Economics and Finance , Juan Antonio Montecino, Economics
THREE ESSAYS ON “DOING CARE”, GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE WORK DAY, AND WOMEN’S CARE WORK IN THE HOUSEHOLD , Avanti Mukherjee, Economics
Dissertations from 2016 2016
Colonial and Post-Colonial Origins of Agrarian Development: The Case of Two Punjabs , Shahram Azhar, Economics
Three Essays on the Social Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Development , Andrew Barenberg, Economics
ELITE CAPTURE, FREE RIDING, AND PROJECT DESIGN: A CASE STUDY OF A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN CEARÁ, BRAZIL , Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Economics
Three Essays on Sustainable Development in China: Social, Economic and Environmental Aspects , Ying Chen, Economics
Three Essays on Women's Land Rights in Rural Peru , Rosa L. Duran, Economics
Three Essays on Economic Stages and Transition , Ricardo R. Fuentes-Ramírez, Economics
Three Essays on U.S. Household Debt and the Sources of Systemic Financial Fragility , Thomas Herndon, Economics
Essays on Household Health Expenditures, National Health Insurance and Universal Access to Health Care in Ghana , EVELYN KWAKYE, Economics
Microfinance, Household Indebtedness and Gender Inequality , Theresa Mannah-Blankson, Economics
Three Essays on Labor Market Friction and the Business Cycle , Jong-seok Oh, Economics
Three Essays on Sustainability , Mark V. Paul, Economics
The Political Economy of Smallholder Incorporation and Land Acquisition , Alfredo R. Rosete, Economics
Employment and Family Leave Mandates: Three Essays on Labor Supply and Demand, Nontraditional Families, and Family Policy , Samantha Schenck, Economics
Endogenous Capacity, Multiple Equilibria and Thirlwall's Law: Theory and an Empirical Application to Mexico: 1950 - 2012. , Juan Alberto Vázquez Muñoz, Economics
Three Essays on the Macroeconomic Impacts of Rent Seeking , Kurt von Seekamm, Economics
Dissertations from 2015 2015
Essays on Growth Complementarity Between Agriculture and Industry in Developing Countries , Joao Paulo de Souza, Economics
Structural Transformation, Culture, and Women’s Labor Force Participation in Turkey , yasemin dildar, Economics
Essays on Information, Income, and the Sharing Economy , Anders F. Fremstad, Economics
Essays on Inequality, Credit Constraints, and Growth in Contemporary Mexico , Leopoldo Gómez-Ramírez, Economics
Three Essays on Macroeconomic Implications of Contemporary Financial Intermediation , Hyun Woong Park, Economics
The Labor Share Question in China , Hao Qi, Economics
Three essays on economic inequality and environmental degradation , Klara Zwickl, Economics
Dissertations from 2014 2014
Common Pool Resources and Rural Livelihoods in Stung Treng Province of Cambodia , Pitchaya Boonsrirat, Economics
The financialization of the nonfinancial corporation in the post-1970 U.S. economy , Leila Emami Davis, Economics
The Financial Underpinnings of the EU Crisis: Financial Deregulation, Privatization, and Asymmetric State Power , Nina Q. Eichacker, Economics
THE FINANCIAL SECTOR AND INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: ESSAYS ON ACCESS TO FINANCE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES IN SOUTH SUDAN AND KENYA , James A. Garang, Economics
OUTPUT FLUCTUATIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN LATIN AMERICA IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE GREAT RECESSION , Gonzalo Hernandez Jimenez, Economics
TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS INEQUALITY IN SOUTH KOREA , Hyeon-Kyeong Kim, Economics
Three Essays in Macroeconomic History , Joshua W. Mason, Economics
Essays on the Evolution of Inequality , Cem Oyvat, Economics
FINANCIALIZATION OF THE COMMODITIES FUTURES MARKETS AND ITS EFFECTS ON PRICES , Manisha Pradhananga, Economics
Productive Stagnation and Unproductive Accumulation in the United States, 1947-2011. , Tomas N. Rotta, Economics
Advertising and the Creation of Exchange Value , Zoe Sherman, Economics
Understanding Income Inequality in the United States , Mark J. Stelzner, Economics
CARE TIME IN THE U.S.: MEASURES, DETERMINANTS, AND IMPLICATIONS , Joo Yeoun Suh, Economics
Essays on the minimum wage , Ben Zipperer, Economics
Dissertations from 2013 2013
Credit Chains, Credit Bubles, and Financial Fragility: Explaining The U.S. Financial Crisis of 2007-09 , Thomas L Bernardin, Economics
A Knife Hidden in Roses: Development and Gender Violence in the Dominican Republic , Cruz Caridad Bueno, Economics
Sustaining Rural Livelihoods in Upper Svaneti, Republic of Georgia , Robin J Kemkes, Economics
Contract as Contested Terrain: An Economic History of Law and the Rise of American Capitalism , Daniel P MacDonald, Economics
Essays on the Rising Demand for Convenience in Meal Provisioning in the United States , Tamara Ohler, Economics
Social Emulation, the Evolution of Gender Norms, and Intergenerational Transfers: Three Essays on the Economics of Social Interactions , Seung-Yun Oh, Economics
Decollectivization and Rural Poverty in Post-Mao China: A Critique of the Conventional Wisdom , Zhaochang Peng, Economics
Capitalist Crisis and Capitalist Reaction: The Profit Squeeze, the Business Roundtable, and the Capitalist Class Mobilization of the 1970s , Alejandro Reuss, Economics
The Economics of Same-Sex Couple Households: Essays on Work, Wages, and Poverty , Alyssa Schneebaum, Economics
The Political Economy of Cultural Production: Essays on Music and Class , Ian J. Seda Irizarry, Economics
Essays Of Human Capital Formation , Owen Thompson, Economics
Dissertations from 2012 2012
Knowledge, Gender, and Production Relations in India's Informal Economy , Amit Basole, Economics
Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Determinants of Informal Employment: The Case of Clothing Traders in Johannesburg, South Africa , Jennifer E Cohen, Economics
The Relationship Between Mass Incarceration and Crime in the Neoliberal Period in the United States , Geert Leo Dhondt, Economics
Fair Trade, Agrarian Cooperatives, and Rural Livelihoods in Peru , Noah Enelow, Economics
Organic Farming and Rural Transformations in the European Union: A Political Economy approach , Charalampos Konstantinidis, Economics
The Sources of Financial Profit: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the Transformation of Banking in the US , Iren G. Levina, Economics
A Minskian Approach to Financial Crises with a Behavioural Twist: A Reappraisal of the 2000-2001 Financial Crisis in Turkey , Mathieu Perron-Dufour, Economics
Essays on Urban Sprawl, Race, and Ethnicity , Jared M. Ragusett, Economics
Agriculture and Class: Contradictions of Midwestern Family Farms Across the Twentieth Century , Elizabeth Ann Ramey, Economics
Women In Conflict, Peacebuilding And Reconstruction: Insights From The Aftermath Of Nepal's Maoist Insurgency , Smita Ramnarain, Economics
Money, Reality, and Value: Non-Commodity Money in Marxian Political Economy , Joseph Thomas Rebello, Economics
Three essays on oil scarcity, global warming and energy prices , Matthew Riddle, Economics
The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in the People's Republic of China , Zhun Xu, Economics
Dissertations from 2011 2011
State Hegemony and Sustainable Development: A Political Economy Analysis of Two Local Experiences in Turkey , Bengi Akbulut, Economics
Financial evolution and the declining effectiveness of US monetary policy since the 1980s , Hasan Comert
Why China Grew: Understanding the Financial Structure of Late Development , Adam S. Hersh, Economics
Solving the "Coffee Paradox": Understanding Ethiopia's Coffee Cooperatives Through Elinor Ostrom's Theory of the Commons , Susan Ruth Holmberg, Economics
Migration, Remittances And Intra-Household Allocation In Northern Ghana: Does Gender Matter? , Lynda Joyce Pickbourn, Economics
Youth and Economic Development: A Case Study of Out-of-School Time Programs for Low-Income Youth in New York State , Kristen Maeve Powlick, Economics
The Real Exchange Rate And Economic Development , Martin Rapetti, Economics
Essays on International Reserve Accumulation and Cooperation in Latin America , Luis Daniel Rosero, Economics
Three Essays on Racial Disparities in Infant Health and Air Pollution Exposure , Helen Scharber, Economics
Dissertations from 2010 2010
Capitalism in Post-Colonial India: Primative Accumulation Under Dirigiste and Laissez Faire Regimes , Rajesh Bhattacharya, Economics
Uneven Development and the Terms of Trade: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis , Bilge Erten, Economics
Gendered Vulnerabilities After Genocide: Three Essays on Post-Conflict Rwanda , Catherine Ruth Finnoff, Economics
The Employment Impacts of Economy-wide Investments in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency , Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Economics
Household Employer Payroll Tax Evasion: An Exploration Based on IRS Data and on Interviews with Employers and Domestic Workers , Catherine B. Haskins, Economics
Racial Inequality and Affirmative Action in Malaysia and South Africa , Hwok-Aun Lee, Economics
Essays on Behavioral Labor Economics , Philip Pablo Mellizo, Economics
Three Essays on the Political Economy of Live Stock Sector in Turkey , Hasan Tekguc, Economics
The Impact Of Public Employment On Health , Wei Zhang, Economics
Dissertations from 2009 2009
Effort, work hours, and income inequality: Three essays on the behavioral effects of wage inequality , Michael Carr
Essays on investment, real exchange rate, and central bank in a financially liberalized Turkey , Deger Eryar
Essays On Investment, Real Exchange Rate, And Central Bank In A Financially Liberalized Turkey , Deger Eryar, Economics
Labor Turnover in the Child-Care Industry: Voice and Exit , Lynn A. Hatch, Economics
Three Essays on Conflict and Cooperation , Sungha Hwang, Economics
Economic Reforms in East African Countries: The Impact on Government Revenue and Public Investment , Adam Beni Swebe Mwakalobo, Economics
Post-Marxism After Althusser: A Critique Of The Alternatives , Ceren Ozselcuk, Economics
Essays on Financial Behavior and its Macroeconomic Causes and Implications , Soon Ryoo, Economics
Skill Mismatch and Wage Inequality in the U.S. , Fabian Slonimczyk, Economics
Linkages Between Inequality And Environmental Degradation: An Interregional Perspective , Marina S Vornovytskyy, Economics
Dissertations from 2008 2008
Migrant women and economic justice: A *class analysis of Anatolian -German women in homemaking and cleaning services , Esra Erdem
Emigrant or sojourner? The determinants of Mexican labor migration strategies to the United States , Florian K Kaufmann
Macrofinancial risk management in the U.S. economy: Regulation, derivatives, and liquidity preference , Marcelo Milan
Essays on behavioral economics , Wesley Jose Pech
The impact of land ownership inequality on rural factor markets , Fatma Gul Unal
Three essays on family care, time allocation, and economic well -being , Jayoung Yoon
Dissertations from 2007 2007
Capital flight and foreign direct investment in the Middle East and North Africa: Comparative development and institutional analysis , Abdullah Almounsor
Investment under financial liberalization: Channels of liquidity and uncertainty , Armagan Gezici
Three essays on social dilemmas with heterogeneous agents , Mark Howard
Between the market and the milpa: Market engagements, peasant livelihood strategies, and the on -farm conservation of crop genetic diversity in the Guatemalan highlands , S. Ryan Isakson
Late neoclassical economics: Restoration of theoretical humanism in contemporary mainstream economics , Yahya Mete Madra
Inequality and the Human Development Index , Elizabeth Anne Stanton
Dissertations from 2006 2006
Institutional settings and organizational forms: Three essays , Alper Duman
Labor market characteristics and the determinants of political support for social insurance , Anil Duman
State power, world trade, and the class structure of a nation: An overdeterminist class theory of national tariff policy , Erik E Guzik
Unions and the strategy of class transformation: The case of the Broadway musicians , Catherine P Mulder
Children's work and opportunities for education: Consequences of gender and household wealth , Sevinc Rende
The economics of immigration: Household and employment dynamics , Maliha Safri
Dissertations from 2005 2005
Capital flight from Southeast Asia: Case studies on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand , Edsel L. Beja
Rethinking municipal privatization: A Marxian class analysis of the privatization of New York City's Central Park , Oliver David Cooke
Financial liberalization and its distributional consequences: An empirical exploration , Arjun Jayadev
Three essays on gender, land rights, and collective action in Brazil's rural political economy , Merrilee Mardon
Land markets, female land rights and agricultural productivity in Paraguayan agriculture , Thomas Masterson
Workers' struggles and transformations of capitalism at industrial enterprises in Russia, 1985–2000 , Maxim V Maximov
Economy and society: Class relations and the process of economic growth , Erik K Olsen
Gender, liberalization and agrarian change in Telangana , Smriti Rao
The contradictory imperatives of New Deal banking reforms. , Ellen D. Russell, Economics
Equity in community -based sustainable development: A case study in western India , Priya Parvathy Sangameswaran
Mandated wage floors and the wage structure: Analyzing the ripple effects of minimum and prevailing wage laws , Jeannette Wicks-Lim
Public enterprises in mixed economies: Their impact on economic growth and social equity , Andong Zhu
Dissertations from 2004 2004
An economic analysis of prison labor in the United States , Asatar P Bair
Three essays on income, inequality and environmental degradation , Rachel A Bouvier
The implementation and enforcement of environmental regulations in a less developed market economy: Evidence from Uruguay , Marcelo F Caffera
Race, altruism and trust: Experimental evidence from South Africa , Justine Claire Keswell
Exchanging entailments: The contested meaning of commodity exchange , Philip M Kozel
Three essays on capital account liberalization and economic growth: New measures, new estimates and the experience of South Korea , Kang-Kook Lee
Enterprise hybrids and alternative growth dynamics , Kenneth M Levin
Social interaction and economic institution , Yongjin Park
Research and policy considerations in the valuation and the allocation of environmental and health commodities , Mihail Samnaliev
Immiserizing growth: Globalization and agrarian change in Telangana, South India between 1985 and 2000 , Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam
Social networks and labor market outcomes: Theoretical expansions and econometric analysis , Russell E Williams
Dissertations from 2003 2003
Three essays on the evolution of cooperation , Jung-Kyoo Choi
Economic size and long -term growth: An empirical analysis of the consequences of small economic size on investment, productivity and income growth , Pavel E Isa
Essays on categorical inequality, non-linear income dynamics and social mobility in South Africa , Malcolm M Keswell
The effectiveness of tax incentives in attracting investment: The case of Puerto Rico , Carlos F Liard-Muriente
A theoretical and statistical exploration into the effects of morals, personality and uncertainty on hypothetical bias in contingent valuation , Joseph D Ogrodowczyk
The role of the stock market in influencing firm investment in China , Feng Xiao
Dissertations from 2002 2002
Essays on the threat effects of foreign direct investment on labor markets , Minsik Choi
An international analysis of child welfare , Nasrin Dalirazar
Fiscal faux pas? An empirical analysis of the revenue and expenditure implications of trade liberalization , Barsha Khattry
Property from the sky: The creation of property rights in the radio spectrum in the United States , Elizabeth M Kruse
Three essays on China's state owned enterprises: Towards an alternative to privatization , Minqi Li
From welfare rights to welfare fights: Neo -liberalism and the retrenchment of social provision , John Arthur O'Connor
Political community and individual gain: Aristotle, Adam Smith and the problem of exchange , Kimberly Kaethe Sims
Rethinking prostitution: Analyzing an informal sector industry , Marjolein Katrien van der Veen
Dissertations from 2001 2001
Land and labor markets among paddy producers in the Nepalese Tarai , Ravi Bhandari
What drives equity values: fundamentals or net flows? An empircal analysis of the 1982--1999 United States stock market boom , Lawrence Lee Evans
Investment, labor demand, and political conflict in South Africa , James S Heintz
Education, Inequality and Economic Mobility in South Africa , Thomas Nathaniel Hertz
Employer work -family programs: Essays on policy implementation, employee preferences, and parental childcare choices , Sally Jane Kiser
Valuing environmental health risks: A comparison of stated preference techniques applied to groundwater contamination , Tammy Barlow McDonald
Endogenous quality and intra-industry trade , Edward Allan McPhail
Perceptions of Massachusetts family and consumer sciences education professionals regarding the importance and use of the National Standards for Family and Consumer Sciences Education in Massachusetts , Jo Ann Pullen
From feudal serfs to independent contractors: Class and African American women's paid domestic labor, 1863–1980 , Cecilia M Rio
A home of one's own: Overcoming gender and familial status barriers to homeownership , Judith K Robinson
Springfield Armory as industrial policy: Interchangeable parts and the precision corridor , Bruce K Tull
Dissertations from 2000 2000
Intergroup inequality, social identity and economic outcomes , Katherine E Baird
Engendering Globalization: Household Structures, Female Labor Supply and Economic Growth , Elissa Braunstein
Capital, conditionality, and free markets: The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the effects of the neoliberal transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean , Andres Carbacho-Burgos
Rural institutions, poverty and cooperation: Learning from experiments and conjoint analysis in the field , Juan-Camilo Cardenas
Understanding the equal split as a bargaining convention and the role of residual claimancy in team production: Three essays in behavioral and experimental economics , Jeffrey Paul Carpenter
Enforcing market -based environmental policies , Carlos A Chavez Rebolledo
A comparative analysis of three economic theories focusing upon the international trade of hazardous waste (the case of electric arc furnace dust) , Amy Silverstein Cramer
The political economy of transformation in Hungary , Anita Dancs
Cross -media transfers of pollution and risk , Janine Marie Dombrowski
Essays on endogenous preferences and public generosity , Christina Margareta Fong
Con nuestro trabajo y sudor: Indigenous women and the construction of colonial society in 16th and 17th century Peru , Karen B Graubart
Banks, insider lending and industries of the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, 1813–1860 , Paul Andre Lockard
Existence value: A reappraisal and cross -cultural comparison , Billy Manoka
Quality management systems and the estimation of market power exertion , Corinna Michaela Noelke
The power of personality: Labor market rewards and the transmission of earnings , Melissa Anne Osborne
Accumulation and European unemployment , Engelbert Richard Stockhammer
Modeling Superfund: A hazardous waste bargaining model with rational threats , Mary Anderson Taft
Welfare, inequality, and resource depletion: A reassessment of Brazilian economic growth, 1965–1993 , Mariano Torras
Dissertations from 1999 1999
Steadying the husband, uplifting the race: The Pittsburgh Urban League's promotion of black female domesticity during the Great Black Migration , Nina Elizabeth Banks
The origins of parallel segmented labor and product markets: A reciprocity-based agency model with an application to motor freight , Stephen V Burks
R&D, advertising, and profits: Economic theory, empirical evidence, and consequences for transfer pricing policy , David W DeRamus
Rethinking demand: A critique and reformulation of Marxian theories of price , David Leo Kristjanson
Wealth, the power to set terms, and the financing and control of firms , Paul N Malherbe
Intra -family transfers and the household division of labor: A case study of migration and remittance behavior in South Africa , Dorrit Ruth Posel
Transportation network policy modeling for congestion and pollution control: A variational inequality approach , Padma Ramanujam
The political economy of organized baseball: Analysis of a unique industry , Ross David Weiner
Dissertations from 1998 1998
The internationalization of production and its effects on the domestic behavior of United States manufacturing multinational firms , James Michael Burke
Neoliberal and neostructuralist theories of competitiveness and flexible labor: The case of Chile's manufactured exports, 1973-1996 , Fernando Ignacio Leiva
An econometric study of the export sector of Somalia , Mohamed A Osman
Financial liberalization, multinational banks and investment: Three essays on the cases of Hungary and Poland , Christian Erik Weller
Dissertations from 1997 1997
Structuralism and individualism in economic analysis: The "contractionary devaluation debate" in development economics , S Charusheela
Financial liberalization in Mexico, 1989-1993 , Colin Danby
CEO pay, agency, and the theory of the firm , Frederick Dexter Guy
Food quality regulation under trade agreements: Effects on the supply of food safety and competitiveness , Neal Hilton Hooker
Agency problems in the capital markets and the employment relationship: The possibility of efficiency-enhancing institutional innovation: An empirical case-study , Pierre Laliberte
New directions in the political economy of consumption , Allan Henry MacNeill
Capabilities and processes of industrial growth: The case of Argentina and the Argentine auto industry , Marcela Monica Miozzo
Manufacturers' responses to new nutrition labeling regulations , Eliza Maria Mojduszka
Rethinking rural development: Making peasant organizations work. The case of Paraguay , Jose R Molinas Vega
Property regimes, technology, and environmental degradation in Cuban agriculture , Hector R Saez
International multi-sector, multi-instrument financial modeling and computation: Statics and dynamics , Stavros Siokos
Three essays on government decision-making to implement and enforce environmental policies , Kristin Ellen Skrabis
Dissertations from 1996 1996
An economic critique of urban planning and the 'postmodern' city: Los Angeles , Enid Arvidson
Dissertations from 1995 1995
Trade liberalization and income distribution: Three essays with reference to the case of Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) , Mehrene E Larudee
Dissertations from 1994 1994
Subjectivism and the limits of F. A. Hayek's political economy , Theodore A Burczak
International currencies and endogenous enforcement , Roohi Prem
Three essays on key currencies and currency blocs , Ellen Tierney
Dissertations from 1993 1993
Capitalist regulation and unequal integration: The case of Puerto Rico , Jaime Eduardo Benson
Production and reproduction: Family policy and gender inequality in East and West Germany , Lynn Susan Duggan
Dissertations from 1992 1992
Capital controls and long-term economic growth , Jessica G Nembhard
Dissertations from 1990 1990
Concentration and product diversity in culture-based industries: A case study of the music recording industry , Peter James Alexander
Dissertations from 1987 1987
THE DETERMINANTS OF THE ECONOMIC POLICIES OF STATES IN THE THIRD WORLD: THE AGRARIAN POLICIES OF THE ETHIOPIAN STATE, 1941-1974 , HENOCK KIFLE
Dissertations from 1986 1986
The Political-Economy of Nuclear Power 1946-1982 , Steven Mark Cohn, Economics
Dissertations from 1985 1985
THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT ON RACIAL INEQUALITY: 1950 TO 1984 (BLACK, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, GOVERNMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT, LABOR) , PETER GEORGE BOHMER
THE GROWTH OF NONMARRIAGE AMONG U.S. WOMEN, 1954-1983 (MARRIAGE, FAMILY, HOUSEHOLDS, UNITED STATES) , ELAINE DENISE MCCRATE
Dissertations from 1983 1983
TAXATION AND PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCE REFORM IN CONNECTICUT , MICHAEL ROBERT FEDEROW
Dissertations from 1982 1982
Evolution of a Hospital Labor System: Technology, Coercion, and Conflict , Jean E. Fisher, Economics
Dissertations from 1981 1981
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARKET ECONOMY IN COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS , RONA STEPHANIE WEISS
Dissertations from 1980 1980
Justice and economic theory. , Barry Stewart Clark, Economics
Dissertations from 1976 1976
EVALUATION OF NEOCLASSICAL THEORY OF PRICE, PRODUCTION AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME. , MANUCHER DARESHURI
Dissertations from 1970 1970
COST PROBLEMS OF THE RUTLAND RAILROAD AND ITS SUCCESSORS FROM--1937 TO 1968 , ROBERT DAVID SMITH
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To Keep Students Focused, Try Paying Their Parents
A study of subsidized training programs and incentives. Research from Hamna Ahmed (Lahore School of Economics), Zunia Tirmazee (Lahore), Rebecca Wu (UChicago PhD), and Emma Zhang (Chicago Booth PhD), suggest that including parents in decision-making may be most effective.
How Demolishing Public Housing Increased Inequity
A study by Chicago Booth's Milena Almagro, Eric Chyn (University of Texas), and Bryan A. Stuart (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) investigate what happened to Chicago's public housing system and find that demolishing public housing increased inequality.
Why Medical Tourism Could Be Good Policy
Rather than investing in putting more medical facilities in remote areas, it could be more effective to pay for patients to visit healthcare facilities, according to research by Chicago Booth's Johnathan Dingel, Joshua D. Gottlieb (UChicago Harris School), Maya Lozinski (Harris PhD) and Booth PhD, Pauline Mourot.
NBER Dissertation Fellowship in Consumer Financial Management
The National Bureau of Economics (NBER) awarded PhD Student, Benedict Guttman-Kenney, a dissertation fellowship to support his research in the economics of credit information.
Inside the Booth PhD Experience
Nick Tsivanidis, PhD ’18, talks about the culture of interdisciplinary study he found at Booth.
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Nick Tsivanidis, ’18: 00:03 My PhD thesis was about how commute costs shape economic organization in cities. Billions of people over the next 50, 100 years, they're going to be moving into mostly developing cities. Governments are going to spend huge amounts of money on providing new infrastructure to try and accommodate them. My project had both macro and applied micro elements. One of the benefits of Booth is that you have access to people from a wide range of areas who are very happy to encourage you to work on interdisciplinary topics.
Nick Tsivanidis, ’18: 00:38 I've always been interested in development and in particular how cities and countries can use evidence-based policy to try and improve welfare of their citizens. I've decided that pursuing a PhD would allow me to research and help translate that research into policy. What attracted me to the PhD program here at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business was this culture of interdisciplinary study. People at Chicago certainly aren't scared or will shy away from trying to think at the intersection of different areas. This is where a lot of very fruitful and productive new research actually takes place, which is at the border of frontiers. That really attracted me to come here.
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- "The Causal Effect of ACA Subsidies on Insurance Coverage Status Among California Adults" - William Vereyken
- "Economic Impacts of Immigration Detention Centers Built Between 1990-2016 on U.S. Commuting Zones" - Ekaterina Yudina
Spring/Summer 2022
- "The Impact of Indiv. Mandate on High-Income, Non-elderly Indiv. Health Insurance Coverage Rates and Racial/Ethnic Disparities" - YeJin Ahn
- "An Economic Analysis of the 1997 Amhara Land Redistribution in Ethiopia" - Ezana Anley
- "Affirmative Action's Effect on Educational and Wage Outcomes for Underrepresented Minorities" - Vishnu G. Arul
- "Are the Effects of Racism Really That Black and White? A Study on the Effect Racism Has on the Productivity of Black Footballers in the Premier League" - Advik Banerjee
- "An Empirical Analysis of Industrial Concentration and Prices: Can We Blame Inflation on Corporate Greed?" - Anton Bobrov
- "Tax Revenue Cyclicality and Income Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Counties From 1989 to 2019" - Yiyang Chen
- "The Impact of Economic Opportunities on African American Migration Patterns in Oakland" - Fernando Cheung
- "Impact of Tech Companies on Wages in the Local Economy" - Niki Collette
- "Warm Welcome: Evidence for Weather-based Projection Bias in College Choice" - Maria Cullen
- "Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Bilateral Trade with China" - Pedro de Marcos
- "Renaissance of the Black Homeowner: Impact Evaluation of Michigan's Renaissance Zones" - Rupsha Debnath
- "Lockdown Blues: The Effect of Social Norms on the Psychological Cost of Unemployment During the COVID-19 Pandemic" - Dylan Hallahan
- "How Education Affects Health Outcomes Across Genders" - Jessica Li
- "Is Increasing Diversity Inclusion Effective in Improving Companies' Performance in the Financial Services Industry?" - Miranda Li
- "The Future Financial Status of the Social Security Program" - Chloe Manouchehri
- "Does Recreational Marijuana Legalization Affect Hard-Drug Use? - Evidence from Cocaine Prevalence and Treatment Admissions" - Arthur Weiss
- "Relationship Between Economic Status and Money Spent on Private Education Leading to Economic Inequality in South Korea" - Jiho Lee
- "The Impact of Migrant Remittances on Rural Labor Supply: Evidence from Nepal" - Amanda Wong
- "Confirmation Bias: The Role of Messages and Messengers" - Hongyu (Randol) Yao
Spring 2021
- "Gender Equality and Economic Growth: Solving the Asian Puzzle" - Zoya Ali
- "Women in STEM: Moving Up or Falling Off the Academic Career Ladder?" - Sophia J. Bai
- "Time Dependence in Okun's Law at the State Level" - Sarah Baig
- "Labor Regulation and the Impact on Firm Behavior in India" - Vatsal Bajaj
- "Gender Representation in Academia: Evidence from the Italian Education System Reform" - Oyundari Batbayar
- "Money & Marriage on the Elementary Mind: A High-Level Analysis of Inequitable Child Development in LA County" - Matthew J. Chang
- "Unanticipated Unemployment Rate News on the Stock Market" - David Chi
- "Should Physicians Be More Collaborative? Determining the Relationship Between Patient Participation and Treatment Plan Confidence Across a Spectrum of Illness Severity in the State of California" - Saif Chowdhury
- "Modeling Optimal Investment and Greenhouse Gas Abatement in the Presence of Technology Spillovers" - Sabrina Chui
- "Understanding the Influence of Marginal Income Tax Rates on Retirement Investment Habits" - Daniel Cohen
- "Infrastructure in India's Internal War: A District-Level Analysis of the Naxalite-Maoist Conflict" - Krunal Desai
- "Do Eucalyptus Trees Increase Wildfires?" - Lila Englander
- "Understanding the Labor Outcomes of Hurricane Sandy" - Kevin Fang
- "Does TikTok Show Viewers the Content Relevant to them?" - Ekaterina Fedorova
- "The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Care Provision on Long-term Young Adult Labor Market Choices" - Anne Fogarty
- "Orchestra Sex Disparity: Experimental Evidence from Audience Members" - Richard Gong
- "The Big Three Medical Price Indexes: A Comparative Review and Analysis" - Robert Hovakimyan
- "Effect of Value-Added-Services on Customer Reviews in a Platform Marketplace" - Shankar Krishnan
- "COVID19 Recession: Gender Layoff Gap Explodes" - Ember Lin-Sperry
- "The Gender Wage Gap in China: Learning from Recent Longitudinal Data" - Donghe Lyu
- "Local Graduation Policies as a Tool for Increasing College Eligibility: Evidence from Los Angeles" - Dan L. Ma
- "Trust in Government and Lockdown Compliance in Sub-Saharan Africa" - Charles McMurry
- "I Do (or Don't): The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on International Tourism" - Oliver McNeil
- "International Shipping Consequences of a Navigable Arctic" - Jack Melin
- "Investigating Dollar Invoicing Trends Using United Kingdom Export Data" - Aneesh Nathani
- "Micro-Level Impact of Initial Public Offerings on Bay Area Housing Inflation" - Mina Nezam-Mafi
- "Explaining EU's Oil Dependency Through the Response of the Portuguese Sector Indexes to Brent Oil Prices Fluctuations" - Pedro S. Nunes
- "Dynamic Incentives and Effort Provision in Professional Tennis Tournaments" - Ruiwen Pan
- "Examining the Effects of Minimum Wage Laws on Part-Time Employment" - Odysseus Pyrinis
- "The Great Indian Identity Crisis? Exclusions & Intersectionality in the Indian Aadhaar System" - Aditi Ramakrishnan
- "The 'Clutch Gene' Myth: An Analysis of Late-Game Shooting Performance in the NBA" - Can Sarioz
- "Estimating the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Jobs Within the Healthcare Industry" - Sidharth Satya
- "Factors Influencing Telehealth Utilization: Evidence from California" - Emily Schultz
- "Cash and Conflict: Evidence from the Indian Banknote Demonetization" - Nachiket Shah
- "Determinants of the Number of Anti-Government Demonstrations: Evidence from OECD Countries" - Nina Singiri
- "Hygiene Heroes: A Process Evaluation of Promoting Hygiene Practices in Tamil Nadu Schools" - Malika Sugathapala
- "Exploring the Labour Patterns of Women and Mothers Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of School Closures and a New Kind of Recession" - Renee Isabel Utter
- "How Have Socioeconomic Achievement Determinants Changed in the Past Decade for First-Generation Chinese Immigrants in the U.S." - Haolin Wang
- "The Impact of Quarantining on School Enrollment: Evidence from the Ebola Epidemic in Sierra Leone" - David Willigrod
- "Weeding out Needy Households and Welcoming the Better Off? Impacts of Transactional Barriers on SNAP Participation Rates" - Kevin Woo
- "Are Soccer Teams Being Inefficient? An Analysis of Sunk Cost Fallacy and Recency Bias Using Transfer Fee" - Junru Lyu
- "The Effects of Access to Family Planning Facilities on Female Labor Market Outcomes" - Marcus Sander
- "Macroeconomic Volatility at the Zero Lower Bound: Evidence from the OECD" - Anthony Swaminathan
- "How are Society's Conditions and Demographics Related to the Popularity of Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the Hong Kong Government" - Peter To
Spring/Summer 2020
- "Parental Involvement: The Differential Impacts of Consent and Notice Requirements for Minors' Abortions" - Angela Ames
- "Examining Local Price Levels and Income Distribution Over Time" - Josh Archer
- "Estimating the Effect of Grandparent Death on Fertility" - Jason Chen
- "Democracy in the Face of COVID-19: Have Less Democratic Countries Been More Effective at Preventing the Spread of This Pandemic ?" - Yi Chen
- "Understanding the Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Indigenous People in Mexico" - Arushi Desai
- "Microfinance and Payday Lending: Are they Solving a Problem or Creating One?" - Sophia Faulkner
- "The Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy and Foreign Banks" - Noah Forougi
- "Ride of Die? Metropolitan Bikeshare Systems and Pollution" - Sean Furuta
- "Internet's Important Involvement in Information Industry Integration in Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana (and others): How the emerging internet affected the economic geography of the information industry" - Keming (Alex) Gao
- "The Relationship between Economic Crises and Long-Run Wealth Inequality" - Renuka Garg
- "Voter Bias in the Associated Press College Football Poll : Reconducting a 2009 study with new data in a $1 Billion-dollar industry that has seen significant changes in the past decade" - Brent Hensley
- "Monopsony Exploitation in Major League Baseball: Using Wins Above Replacement to Estimate Marginal Revenue Product" - Jacob C. Hyman
- "The Relationship Between Currency Substitution and Exchange Rate Volatility" - Jewon Ju
- "Efficiency, Bias, and Decisions: Observations from a Sports Betting Exchange" - Alexander Kan
- "The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Substance Use Disorder Treatment Utilization: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act" - Christy Kang
- "Analyzing the Relationship between Personal Income Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality" - Gevorg Khandamiryan
- "The Effects of Occupancy Taxes on the Short-Term Rental Market: Evidence from Boston" - Alan Liang
- "Corporate Types and Bank Lending in Contractionary Era: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies" - Zishen Liu
- "Financial Constraints on Student Learning: An Analysis of How Financial Stress Influences Cognitive Function in Children" - Simone Matecna
- "The Effect of Workplace Inspections on Employment and Sales - A Regression Discontinuity Analysis" - Jeseo Park
- "Lending Sociodynamics, Economic Instability, and the U.S. Farm Credit Crisis" - Erfan Samaei
- "The Effect of Intangible Assets on Value Added: Evidence from microdata across small and large firms in Europe" - Tamara Sequeira
- "Price Efficiency Differences Between Public and Private Utilities: An Empirical Analysis of US Electric Utilities" - Yechan Shin
- "Effect of Campus Shootings on Academic Achievement: Examination of 2014 Isla Vista Killings" - Min Joo (Julie) Song
- "First-Degree Price Discrimination: Evidence from Informal Markets in India" - Rishab Srivastava
- "Who Benefits From Gentrification? A Case Study of Oregon Public High Schools" - Namrata Subramanian
- "Estimating the Economic Impacts of Wealth Taxation in France" - Jeffrey Suzuki
- "Transit-Oriented Development or Transit-Oriented Displacement? Evaluating the Sorting Effect of Public Transportation in Los Angeles County" - Yeeling Tse
- "How State Abortion Policy Restrictiveness is Associated with Unintended Pregnancy Outcomes in the United States from 2014-2018" - Ruhee Wadhwania
- "Global Food Security and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation" - Aidan Wang
- "The Relationship Between Pharmaceutical R&D Spending and NME Development" - Taylor Wang
- "The Role of Individual Risk Attitude in Occupational Inheritance" - Yi Wang
- "Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from U.S. Janitorial Jobs Advertised in English and Spanish" - Zijun Xu
- "Bias on the Brain: How Patient Gender Influences Use of Emergency Room Diagnostic Imaging" - Abigail Zhong
- "Age Effects, Irrationality and Excessive Risk-Taking in Supposedly Expert Agents" - William Aldred
- "Pricing Disparities for Minority Communities in Chicago: Rideshares and Taxis" - Matthew Cleveland
- "Where My Negros At? Evaluating the Effects of Banning Affirmative Action on Black College Enrollment" - Ellie Koepplinger
- "Race and Recession: How Minorities May Affect Downturns" - Alexander Szarka
- "Understanding the Effects of Canadian International Food Aid on Production and Trade" - Patrick D. Tagari
- "Urban Property Rights and Labor Supply in Peru: Heterogeneity Analysis by Gender and Educational Attainment" - Juan Sebastián Rozo Vásquez
- "Effect of High-Speed Rail on City Tourism Revenue in China: A Perspective on Spatial Connectivity" - Lingyun Xiao
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A. ABSTRACT. This document proposes an Indiana University Ph.D. degree in Economics to be offered on the campus of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and administered by the Department of Economics in the School of Liberal Arts. The Department has offered an M.A. in Economics for over fifteen years; that experience has ...
Research Proposal. The maximum length of the write-up should be 3 pages single-spaced (but less is fine). The goal of this research proposal is to give you a "jump start" on working on a topic that you could (ideally) work on for your second-year paper (or a future paper for your dissertation). If you are in the second year, it is okay for ...
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Joe Bloggs PhD Research Proposal Page 1 1 PhD Research Proposal 1 Proposal Title The impacts of climate change and land degradation on global food production. 2 Background and research questions In 2014, 50% of global cereal production came from just four countries: China, USA, India and Russia (The World Bank, 2016).
When will each of the key stages start and finish (refining proposal; literature review; developing research methods; fieldwork; analysis; writing the draft; final submission). There are likely to overlaps between the stages. An initial research proposal that forms part of a PhD application should be between 600 and 1,000 words in length.
Sharpening your economics writing skills is crucial in communicating top-notch research effectively. Remember, your paper's impact may suffer if your writing is: • grammatically flawed, • unclear, or • excessively journalistic. Writing an economics paper without proper grammar is like balancing an economic model on a
The announcement of the PhD dissertation proposal defense is made at least two weeks in advance to all members of the Economics Department faculty and doctoral students in the department. The announcement lists information about the candidate, the title and abstract of the dissertation proposal, the names and affiliations of the dissertation ...
Therefore, in a good research proposal you will need to demonstrate two main things: 1. that you are capable of independent critical thinking and analysis. 2. that you are capable of communicating your ideas clearly. Applying for a PhD is like applying for a job, you are not applying for a taught programme.
Written by Mark Bennett. You'll need to write a research proposal if you're submitting your own project plan as part of a PhD application. A good PhD proposal outlines the scope and significance of your topic and explains how you plan to research it. It's helpful to think about the proposal like this: if the rest of your application explains ...
Dissertation Proposal Guidelines and Forms Economics Ph.D. Program - University of Virginia Dissertation proposals will be conducted only in the fall and spring semesters during the dates in which classes are in session (i.e., not in final exams or breaks). No more than two proposals will be scheduled during one week, typically at 2:00 or
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Research proposals. Writing a research proposal requires students to demonstrate a high level of knowledge and analytical thought. Students must choose a specific aspect of the course material to investigate, and ask an original question, which can increase their engagement and interest. This assesses students' understanding of the subject area ...
Essays in Public Economics by Enda Patrick Hargaden Chair: James R. Hines, Jr. This dissertation comprises three research papers, each of which addresses a question in public economics. Chapter 1 investigates the response of taxpayers to tax incentives in Ireland be-fore and after the Great Recession. Pre-2009 there is clear evidence of bunching in
Unobservables, Review of Economic Studies, 70, 317-342. Loayza, N. (1994) A Test of the International Convergence Hypothesis Using Panel Data, Policy Research Working Paper no. 1333, The World Bank. Mankiw, G.N., D. Romer and D. Weil (1992), A Contribution to the Empirics of Growth, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, 407-437.
PhD in International Economics or Development Economics Your thesis proposal should identify the specific topic you intend to pursue and demonstrate familiarity with recent developments in the discipline. The proposal should include: 1) A brief description and motivation of the issue and why we should
A PhD thesis normally consists of three research papers of publishable quality. The thesis must be approved by a student's primary and secondary thesis advisors, and by an anonymous third reader. These three faculty members will be the candidate's thesis committee and are responsible for its acceptance. Collaborative work is acceptable and ...
Allocation of supervisors. For Year 1 entrants, the proposal is used to allocate a preliminary supervisor to act as mentor during the first year of study. This person will normally also act as a supervisor and may also become your MSc-dissertation supervisor. The exact composition of your supervisory team will be decided by the end of Year 1.
Essays on behavioral and experimental economics . Xu, Yaoyao (The University of Edinburgh, 2023-07-25) In this dissertation of three chapters, I study individuals' strategic sophistication in decision-making, specifically level-k reasoning and forward-looking behavior. The first chapter studies subjects' iterative reasoning ...
Example research proposal #1: "A Conceptual Framework for Scheduling Constraint Management" Example research proposal #2: "Medical Students as Mediators of Change in Tobacco Use" Title page. Like your dissertation or thesis, the proposal will usually have a title page that includes: The proposed title of your project; Your name; Your ...
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Our PhD Program in Micro-Economics is widely recognized for our faculty, whose insights have changed the course of modern-day economic research. The Chicago School of Economics. It all started here at the University of Chicago. Fields of specialization in the Micro-Economics Stevens Doctoral Program include price theory, market design ...
Behavioural Economics. Behavioural Health Economics and Policy. Behavioural Labour and Organisational Economics. Decisions under Risk and Uncertainty. Experimental and Behavioural analyses of markets. Charitable Behaviour. Analysis of Conflict and Conflict Resolution. Behavioural Welfare Economics (including subjective wellbeing)
Filter by thesis title. Author Thesis Title Year Argueta, Allison. A Precinct-Level Analysis of Latino Voting Behavior During The 2016 And 2020 Presidential Elections . 2023. Brown, Drakos. ... "The Stanford Economics Department has two central missions: to train students at the undergraduate and graduate level in the methods and ideas of ...
Determining the Relationship Between Patient Participation and Treatment Plan Confidence Across a Spectrum of Illness Severity in the State of California" - Saif Chowdhury. "Modeling Optimal Investment and Greenhouse Gas Abatement in the Presence of Technology Spillovers" - Sabrina Chui. "Understanding the Influence of Marginal Income Tax Rates ...
Answer questions from both the general audience and the dissertation committee. The PhD Dissertation Advisory Committee will assess the quality of the proposal. Evaluation of the proposal will be based on the following considerations: Scope of the proposal (10%). Is the research topic novel and important?