Several Carleton economics students won the 2018 annual MEA Undergraduate Paper Contest.
Senior Thesis
First Place: Avinash Moorthy ’18, “Do Students Benefit from an Extra Year of High School? A Study of Ontario’s Removal of Grade 13”
Advisor: Jenny Bourne
Second Place: David McKinley ’18, “Isolating Discrimination in the Sexual Orientation Wage Gap”
Advisor: Jenny Bourne
Third Place: Victoria Cragg Peterson ’18, “Woman Against Woman?: An Experimental Approach to Single-Gender Competitive Performance”
Advisors: Jonathan Lafky & Jenny Bourne
Term Paper
Third Place: Laura DeMane ’19, “Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment: The Effect of Microfinance on Fertility Rates and Female Workforce Involvement”
Advisor: Muhammad Faress Bhuiyan
Economic Communication
Iris Arbogast ’19, What makes a Successful Social Enterprise?
Advisor: Muhammad Faress Bhuiyan