Archive
Browse peer-reviewed research from undergraduate economists at William & Mary, covering topics across the full breadth of modern economic inquiry.
Macroeconomics
Using a panel dataset of 18 eurozone economies from 2008–2022, this paper re-estimates the Keynesian fiscal multiplier under conditions of monetary policy constraint.
Labor Economics
This paper examines how the adoption of industrial robots correlates with occupation-level wage premiums, finding divergent effects across skill levels and firm size categories.
Environmental Economics
We exploit staggered adoption of regional carbon-pricing schemes to estimate their causal effect on clean-technology patenting.
International Trade
This paper examines how the CHIPS and Science Act and Inflation Reduction Act are reshaping the spatial distribution of manufacturing investment.
Health Economics
Using Medicare claims data, we document that horizontal mergers between hospital systems are associated with a 12–18% increase in patient out-of-pocket expenditures.
Public Finance
Leveraging quasi-experimental variation in reassessment cycles, this analysis finds that property tax increases are borne disproportionately by long-term renters.
Development Economics
Drawing on 40 randomized controlled trials, this meta-analysis finds that microcredit interventions produce modest, heterogeneous, and often transient effects on household income.
Behavioral Economics
This paper revisits the seminal findings on automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans, examining whether default effects persist over longer time horizons.
Macroeconomics
We examine whether the conventional interest-rate transmission mechanism is attenuated in economies with high sovereign debt-to-GDP ratios.
Labor Economics
Exploiting the sudden expansion of remote work during COVID-19, this study documents a flattening of urban rent gradients in major metropolitan areas.