Undergraduate Student Awards

Class of 2024

• Zayne El-Kaissi: “Identification of Treatment Effects in Democratic Models” 
• Jasmine Han: “After the Bell, Away from the Cutoff: Investigating School Breakfast with RDD Extrapolation Methods”
• Akshay Joglekar: “Simplifying Estimation of Upward Pricing Pressure in Two-Sided Markets using a Sufficient Decision Framework”
• Chris Liao: ““Behind the Glass Door: Unraveling Hierarchical Structure in Open Source Software Development” ”
• Andreas Petrou-Zeniou: “A Two-Step Approach to Inference on Multiple Winners with Applications to Microcredit and Economic Mobility”
• Parth Vaitha: “Conditional Covariance of Risky and Risk-Free Assets”
• Haichuan Wang: “Academic Publication Competition” 
• Alex Yoon: “Green Trade: A Theoretical Framework for Pricing Renewable Energy Certificates” 

Class of 2023

• Cedric Elkouh: “Survival of the Safest? Collapsing Union Safety Premiums and Rising Labor Market Concentration in United States Coal Mining” 
• Jeremy Huang: “No Deals on Wheels: A Price-Dispersion Model of the Endowment Effect in the Used-Car Marketplace”
• Jim Royal: “Money Getting Smarter: Financial Literacy and Wealth Inequality in a Heterogeneous Agent Model”
• Bruce Wen: “Reserve Prices in Art Auctions”
• Raymon Yue: “How do sustainability ratings affect firm ESG performance and disclosure?”
• Zhi Zhang: “U.S. Monetary Shocks and International Downside Risks Spillover”
• Yuerong Zhuang: “Unity is Vision: The Impact of Trade War on US-China Scientific Collaborations” 

Class of 2022

• Aparna Jayashankar, “Unintended Consequences: How the Announcement of New Training Requirements for Illinois FFN Providers Affected Subsidized Rural and Urban Child Care Supply”
• Russell Legate-Yang, “Don't Bid and Tell? Uncertain Competition in Texan Oil Lease Auctions”
• Jan Morgan, “Landesbanken and Default: Why Public Banks are Prone to Risk?”
• Becky Scurlock, “Valuing Connections to Corrupt Politicians: Evidence from Brazil”
• Steven Shi “Are Foreign Language Skills Really Valuable on the Job Market? Observational and Experimental Evidence”
• Andrew Wooders, “Discrimination in the Online Marketplace”
• Calvin Zhang, “Persistence of Gibrat's Law in Economic Agglomeration”

Class of 2021

• Terry II Culpepper “Total Eclipse of the Heart Attack: The Effect of Marriage on Healthcare Utilization”
• Azize Engin “Asset Pricing with Habit Persistence and Garbage Consumption Proxy”
• Roy McKenzie “Teacher Grading and Value-Added: Evidence from Chicago”
• Aaron Schur “Quality and Bunching Effects of the New York City Mansion Tax”
• Anand Shah : “Defusing the Political Arms Race: a Matching Market for Political Donations”
• Charles Shi : “Optimal Lockdown and Information in a Heterogeneous SIRD Model”
• Kaixin Wang “The Dynamic Impact of Wildfires on the California Housing Market”
• Alexander Warmath “Searching for the Green Premium: A Study of the MDB Bond Market”
• Samuel Zhao “A Task-Based Model of Human Capital Accumulation”

Class of 2019

• Rohit Chandran “A Theory of Convergence to a General Equilibrium”
• Thomas Yu “A Model of Countercyclical Macroprudential Policy”
• Deniz Dutz “Analysis of Ordered Choice Models: Limitations of Existing Models and Proposing an Alternative Model”
• Ruby Zhang “The Effects of Manufacturer Mergers on Retail Product Variety and Prices across the Supply Chain”
• Ian Pitman “A Data-Adaptive Method of Selecting Optimal Caliper Widths for Propensity Score Matching"

Class of 2018

• Lindsey Currier, "Labor Response to a Hurricane Shock: Evidence from Houston Uber Drivers"
• Daniel Ehrlich, “Regional Variation in Payment Instrument Usage”
• Raymond Han, “Voting Cultures: Network Effects and the Political Participation of Naturalized Citizens in U.S. Elections"
• Gregory Sun, “When to Accept Pool: Characterizing the Driver’s Decision Problem at Uber”
• Hannah Walter, “Cartels, Crackdowns, and Conflicts: Analyzing the Determinants of Violence in Rio de Janeiro”
• Jenny Wang, “A Wrinkle in Time: Estimating Rider Responsiveness to Wait Times with Regression Discontinuity”
• Oliver Xie, “Advanced Text Signals Capture Trends in Stochastic Volatility”

Class of 2017

• David Abraham, "Time Discipline and Labor Cost: Increased Watch Availability and Southern Railroads, 1866-1886"
• Tilbe Caglayan, "Neighborhood Crime and Appointment Attendance: Evidence from University of Chicago Medicine"
• Jacob Dorn, "Should Retail Chains Coordinate Their Promotions? Supply and Demand Theory and Empirical Tests"
• Alex Foster, "Credit Access Among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Urban Ghana"
• Ken Jung, "School Vouchers and Competition in the North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program"
• Sylvia Klosin, "To Post, Or Not To Post: An Investigation of Posted Wage Information in Online Job Advertisements"
• Anya Marchenko, "Discrimination in Airbnb: Do Minority Hosts Earn Less than White Hosts on the Platform?"
• Robbie Minton,"Similarity and Judgement under Uncertainty"
• Mary Vansuch, "The Effects of Mandatory and Free College Admissions Exams on College Enrollment and Completion"

Class of 2016

• Michael Galperin, "Economic Shocks and Insurgent Strategy: Evidence from Pakistan"
• Zhida (George) Gui, "The Effect of Unemployment on Grocery Shopping"
• Abhi Gupta, "Household Heterogeneity and Home Prices"
• Michelle Jiang, "Affirmative Action, Percent Plans, and Segregation's Impact on Minority Enrollment"
• Querida Qiu, "Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect: Regulatory Impact on Dual-Listed Share Premiums"
• Michael Sheldon, "Income Targeting and the Ridesharing Market"

Class of 2015

• Daniele Caratelli, "Breaking the Eurozone: What are the Consequences?"
• Zefeng Chen, "Growing Like China: The Role of Labor Heterogeneity"
• Cody Cook, "Consumer Response to Sales Tax Holidays"
• Chen Cui, "Asymmetric Information in Securities Class Action Lawsuits"
• Scott Loring, "Non-Partisan Blanket Primaries and Political Polarization"

Class of 2014

• Chris Denning, "Anti-Takeover Defense in the Market for Corporate Control"
• Ezra Karger, "Measuring the White-Black Educational Attainment Gap"
• Maya Lozinski, "Getting Doctors to do Their Paperwork: The Impact of a Physician Billing Incentive"
• Scott Mendelssohn, "Nash Equilibrium in MLB Pitching Strategy"
• Mattie Toma, "Choking at the Free Throw Line: Analyzing the Determinants of Performance Under Pressure"

Class of 2013

• Jacob Berman, "The Maturity Structure of Treasury Debt: How Costly is Mismanagement?"
• Erik James, "Considering the Relative Significance of Transit Trip Attributes on the Decisions of Chicago Commuters to Drive or Take Public Transit"
• Patrick Donnelly Moran, "Evaluating the Impact of Piracy: A Structural PVAR Analysis of the Conflicting Effects of File Sharing"
• Emmanuel Souganidis, "A Rigorous Multi-Modal Analysis of Climate-Economics"

 Class of 2012

• Eliot Abrams, "Incremental Value of Market Information to an Accounting Ratios Based Bankruptcy Prediction Model Before, During and After The Great Recession"
• Jonathan Libgober, "Optimal Linking Mechanisms"
• Weiling Liu, "Science versus Tradition: A Study on the Health Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine"
• Samuel Moy, "Are the Slots Loaded Against Consumers? The Effects of Airport Slot Allocation On Consumer Welfare"
• Nakita Raghunath, "The Impact of Microfinance on Female Bargaining Power in India" 

Class of 2011

• Yiwei Chen, “Optimal Timing of DVD Releases”
• Luca Maini, “Devolution and Convergence: the Role of Population Flows”
• Kelsey Moser, “A Model of Production-Determined Debt Default in Iceland and Argentina”
• Molly Schnell, “To Go or Not to Go: The College-Going Decision in a Sample of High-IQ Men”
• Karen Ye, “Spite and Altruism in Second Price Auctions: An Experiment”

2023 Recipients

• Charles Brennan
• Benjamin Randall
• Veer Sethi
• Arjun Sohur
• Emma Xu
• Luke Yelenick
• Yujie (Jerry) Zhou

2022 Recipients

• Divya Mehrotra
• ​Anna Murchie
• Sabrina Schlesinger
• Yasmin Shalim
• Madelyn St Amand 

Class of 2019

• Rohit Chandran, Ariel Goldszmidt, and Ruishan “Ruby” Zhang: The Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Microeconomics
• Thomas Yu: The Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Macroeconomics

Class of 2017

• Anya Marchenko and Robbie Minton - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Macroeconomics
• Jacob Dorn and Cameron Taylor - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Microeconomics
• Alex Foster and Sylvia Klosin - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Service

Class of 2016

• Abhi Gupta and Daniel Roberts - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Macroeconomics
• Matthew Tauzer - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Microeconomics
• Nicole Gorton - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Service

Class of 2015

• Daniele Caratelli and Zefeng Chen - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Macroeconomics
• Jacob Conway and Simon Lazarus - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Microeconomics
• Basil Halperin and Kayla Reinherz - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Service

Class of 2014

• Botao Wu - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Macroeconomics
• Suraj Malladi - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Microeconomics
• Chris Denning - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Service

Class of 2013

• Klakow Akepanidtaworn - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Macroeconomics
• Anthony Zhang - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement in Microeconomics
• Defne Ozaltun - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Service

Class of 2012

• Paul Ho - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Academic Achievement
• William Burgo - Becker Friedman Institute Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Service

Class of 2013

• Klakow Akepanidtaworn, "Two Essays on Output"

Class of 2012

• Maryclare Griffin, "Effects of Early Life Community Violence on the Efficacy of Early Childhood Education Programs"
• Ryan Wang, "Seller Strategies and Price Dynamics on Amazon Marketplace"\

Class of 2010

• Jorgen Harris, “Complications in the Congestion Tax Literature: The Effect of Value of Time Clustering on Cordon Tax Efficiency”
• Malika Krishna, “Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers: The Effects of Outpatient Competition”
• Waldo Ojeda, “An Analysis of Race and Subprime Borrowers During the Mortgage Credit Expansion”
• Daniel Waldinger, “Are Newton Parents Tiebout Agents? The Effect of a Partly Unanticipated Property Tax Increase on Home Prices”

Class of 2009

• Ross Doppelt, “Human Capital, Endogenous Growth, Business Cycles: A Quantitative Analysis”
• Andrew Hogue, “Is Amazing Customer Service Profit Maximizing?”
• John Eric Humphries, “Economic Conditions and GED Test Taking heterogeneous age groups and the roll of the GED test)”
• Zhiwei Calvin Lin, “Overbidding in IPV Auctions is not a Rational Best Response”
• Sibo Lu, “The Effect of Income Correlation on the Efficiency of Group Lending and The Case for Micro-Insurance”
• Chris Milroy, “Crisis and Conflict”
• Jeffrey Picel, “Optimal Bin Placement for Charities”
• Eric Robertson, “The Alpha Dogs of the Classroom: The Effects of Quarter of Birth”
• Tong Kai (Fabian) Tan, “The Valuation of Parks in Chicago using Hedonic Pricing Analysis”

Class of 2008

• Sonia Jaffe, “Iterative Thinking by Facebook Users”

Class of 2007

• Kristopher Hult, “A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction by Industry and Brand”

Class of 2019

• Ariel Goldszmidt “The Value of Time: Evidence from a Large-Scale Rideshare Experiment”
• Won Woo Kim “A Nation of Makers: Endogenous Innovation in Makerspaces”
• Isabel Almazan “Modelling the Impact of the Education Gap on Marriage Outcomes”

Class of 2006

• Nicholas Buchholz, “Spatial Search: An Analysis of the Market for Taxicab Rides”
• Ronald Chan, “IPO lockup expiration, Insider Trading and the Effects of Investor Decisions”
• Stanislav Rabinovich, “Efficiency in Search and Matching Models with Investment”

Class of 2005

• Paul Ma, “Rate on Child Spacing: The Case of South Korea”

Class of 2014

• Frank Pinter, Harvard Business School (Honorable Mention)

Class of 2013

• Joshua Bosshardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Class of 2012

• Samuel Moy, Harvard
• Jake Torcasso, University of Chicago

Class of 2010

• Ross Doppelt, New York University
• Dana Chandler, University of Chicago

Class of 2009

• John Eric Humphries, University of Chicago
• Vikram Jambulapati, MIT Sloan

Class of 2006

• Nathaniel D. Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology