Honours Students Poster

Moratorium Shield: California Non-Renewal and FAIR Plan Responses Annabella Stoll-Dansereau

Moratorium Shield: California Non-Renewal and FAIR Plan Responses

Annabella Stoll-Dansereau

California wildfires are intensifying due to climate change, creating more structural damage and straining the housing insurance market. During the period focused on, 2015 to 2021, regulations limited insurance premium increases and prohibited using climate forecasts in pricing models, pushing insurers toward non-renewals. My thesis focuses on the 2019 Moratorium policy that froze insurance non-renewals […]

Protest and Prejudice: The Impact of Black Lives Matter Protests on Police Behaviour  CEA 2023 Best Poster Award Colby Chambers

Protest and Prejudice: The Impact of Black Lives Matter Protests on Police Behaviour

CEA 2023 Best Poster Award

Colby Chambers

This paper assesses the impact of Black Lives Matter Protests in the United States on police traffic stops of civilians. Exploiting variation in protest location across 16 states and protest timing from 2014 to 2018, I use a stacked difference-in-differences methodology to find that the protests led to an 12% reduction in stops and 8% […]

The Maternal Health Consequences of Reduced Access to AbortionTali Yaffe

The Maternal Health Consequences of Reduced Access to Abortion

Tali Yaffe

Unencumbered access to abortion allows women to avoid mistimed pregnancies and their associated health risks. I assess the adverse health consequences of reduced access to abortion by examining a Texas policy change which forced the closure of many abortion clinics in the state. Using a TWFE DID research design across time and Texas counties, I […]

The Robbers Cave: Intergroup Contact and Conflict in AfricaChris Lam

The Robbers Cave: Intergroup Contact and Conflict in Africa

Chris Lam

When members of different ethnic groups share a superordinate goal of working together to obtain mineral resources, intergroup cooperation is facilitated and hostility is moderated. This paper shows that both interethnic contact and mining activity increase the probability of armed conflict when analyzed separately at the cell-year level. However, the combined effect of interethnic contact […]

Monetary policy and its distributive implications on wealth inequality in Canada Chanya Chawla

Monetary policy and its distributive implications on wealth inequality in Canada

Chanya Chawla

The aim of this paper is to investigate the distributive effects of monetary policy on wealth inequality, with a focus on the Canadian context. While most recent literature acknowledges the distributive implications of monetary policy changes on wealth inequality, most recent studies use data from the United States and the United Kingdom. Therefore, this research […]

Locking down ExportsJonah Heyl

Locking down Exports

Jonah Heyl

Canadian exports dropped by nearly 30 % in March of 2020 before shapely recovering. Which industries were most impacted, and how can the government smooth-out export shocks? To examine the first question, I develop a novel measure of industry complexity based on centrality in inter-industry flows. Using a sample of Canadian export data to all […]

The Impact of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protests on the 2020 US Presidential Election Joyce Law

The Impact of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protests on the 2020 US Presidential Election

Joyce Law

Can protests lead to political change by influencing voting behaviour in subsequent elections? My thesis examines whether the ‘Black Lives Matter’ (BLM) protests helped the Democratic presidential candidate in the 2020 US election. Using an instrumental variables strategy with rainfall, I find that non-violent BLM protests increased the Democratic vote share in swing states in […]

The Long-Run Impacts of Hurricanes on Educational Attainment in Puerto Rico Felipe Grosso

The Long-Run Impacts of Hurricanes on Educational Attainment in Puerto Rico

Felipe Grosso

Are there long-term negative educational effects that stem from hurricanes? Does living through hurricanes during key educational years (6 to 9 yrs.) entail worse long-term educational outcomes? In my honors thesis, I explore these questions focusing on Puerto Rico, an understudied territory subject to extreme climate risk. I found that, on average, hurricanes have little […]

Sanctuary Policy and Higher Education: Evidence from the United States Jin Wang

Sanctuary Policy and Higher Education: Evidence from the United States

Jin Wang

Can sanctuary policy shield Hispanic residents from education interruptions amid uncertainty? From 2007 to 2019, the immigrant community in the U.S. experienced various degrees of tension and hostility due to racial profiling and the political atmosphere, culminating during the 45th presidency. Many states cooperate with federal immigration enforcement agencies (ICE) to identify and deport undocumented […]

Gender Inequality in Working from Home during the COVID-19 pandemic Jessica Zhong

Gender Inequality in Working from Home during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jessica Zhong

One of the most obvious impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor force is the dramatic increase in employees working remotely. As many nations placed lockdown orders, K-12 schools temporarily shut down, and the children’s education was relocated to the internet. As a result, working parents who worked from home had to care for […]