2006
Jens Schubert
Portfolio Life Cycle Selection – Theory and
Experiment
June 2006 [Final Draft]
Advisor: Jamie Kruse
2005
Fang Qian
Earnings Benefit and Party Membership in Urban China
May 2005 [Final Draft]
Advisors: John Bishop and Haiyong Liu
Jee Hwang
Reflections of School Quality on the Housing Market: Extending the Definition of Better Schools
Advisor: Okmyung Bin
2004
Tejashree Sayanak
Do Low Cost Carriers Provide Low Quality Service?
July 2004 [Final Draft]
Advisor: Nick Rupp
Qi (Kevin) Meng
The Effect of Cigarette Prices on Smoking Decision and Intensity in China
June 2004 [Final Draft]
Advisor: John Bishop
Tuvshintulga Bold
Explaining Rise of Barter in Russia: Virtual Economy vs. Monetary Issues
April 2004 [Final Draft]
Advisor: Richard Ericson
2003
Jessie Mai
Adjusted Gini Coefficients with Quantile Regression
July 2003 [Final Draft]
J. Brett Joyal
Vote Production Functions: An Analysis Of Campaign Expenditures And Election Outcomes In North Carolina
Advisor: Mark Holmes
Xi (Jane) Pan
Evaluating Regional Poverty in China With Subjective Equivalence Scales
Junhua Yu
A Nested Logit Approach to Airline Operations Decision Process
June 2003 [Final Draft]
Hemant Patil
Are Prices Procyclical? : A Disaggregate Level Analysis
Advisor: Randy Parker
2002
Afua Dei-Tutu
Flood Hazards, Insurance, and House Prices --- A Hedonic Property Price Analysis
December 2002 [Final Draft]
Brandon Payne
Estimating The Risk Premium Of Law Enforcement Officers
November 2002 [Final Draft]
Advisor: Ed Schumacher
Brian Tinga
The Relationship between Complementary & Alternative Healthcare versus Traditional Healthcare
July 2002 [Final Draft]
Advisor: Marjorie Baldwin
Amy Elizabeth Corman
How Teen Sexual Behavior Responds to Sexually Transmitted Disease Risks
June 2002 [Final Draft]
Advisor: Jeff DeSimone
Fang Wang
The Application of Quantile Regression in Analysis of Gender Earnings Gap in China
Jingyi Chen
Do Financial Market Variables Predict Unemployment Rate Fluctuations?
Advisor: Phil Rothman
Paul Hindsley
Factors Leading to Implementation of Agricultural Best Management Practices on the Neuse River Basin
Advisor: John Whitehead
2001
John Thomas
Identifying Targets and Acquirers in Bank Mergers
December 2001 [Final Draft]
Brian Fields
Estimating the Value of Major League Baseball Players
July 2001 [Final Draft]
Amy Ehrsam
Managed Care Penetration and the Earnings of Health Care Workers
Fei Gao
The Incidence and Outcomes of Surgery Among Workers’ Compensation Back Claims
Li Zhang
The Impact of Transaction Tax on Stock Markets:Evidence from an emerging market
Advisor: Dong Li
Shuang Chen
The Effect of Physician Supply on Rural Community Health: 1980-1988
Evan Gutshall
Teen Cocaine and Marijuana Demand in the 1990's
Darren Stillwell
An Out-of Sample Forecasting Analysis of the Granger-causal Relationship Between Fed Policy and Stock Returns
Brad Salin
Teen Suicide Attempts in the 1990's
June 2001 [Final Draft]
Qing Fang
Changes In Determinants Of Personal Earnings In People’s Republic Of China In 1988 And In 1995
May 2001 [Final Draft]
Isaac Baah Kwakye
The Economic Effects of Fish Kills and a Seafood Inspection Program in North Carolina
2000
Michael MacKenzie
The Response of Drug Injection Behavior to Local Heroin Prices and Prevalence of AIDS and Hepatitis
July 2000 [Final Draft]
Brian Smith
Perceived Quality of Public Schools
Advisor: Carson Bays
An Investigation of Money Supply Shock Asymmetry Using Disaggregated Data
Bret Creech
The Effect of Cocaine and Heroin Prices and Arrests on Cocaine and Heroin-Related Deaths
Laziz A. Karimov
Collecting and Using Labor Force Statistics with an Application to the Amount and Duration of Unemployment
Brandon Dunlop
The Effects of SSI and DI on the Employment of the Disabled
Jeff Rinehart
Labor Force Participation Responses to the OBRA93 Expansion of the EITC
Yafu Zhao
A Moving Window Analysis of the Granger Causal Relationship Between Money and Stock Returns
Lisa P. Compton
Is There Really a Tradeoff Between Wages and Pension Coverage?
Advisor: Linda Ghent
ChunWei Lai
The Change of Job Mobility among Workers with Disability in the Early 1990's
June 2000 [Final Draft]
Patrick Swain
The Earnings and Employment of Health Therapists
Genuan Gunawardhana
Poverty Trends in Lima after the Conversion from Heterodox to Orthodox Policies
May 2000 [Final Draft]
Adviser: Lester Zeager
Josh Olinick
Risk Perceptions, Food Quality, and the Demand for Seafood: A Study from Eastern North Carolina
Adviser: Tim Haab
