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A Generalized Ordered Response Model, Carla Johnston, Dr. James Mcdonald
A Generalized Ordered Response Model, Carla Johnston, Dr. James Mcdonald
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Does happiness depend on income? What puts people at risk to become “heavy smokers?” Do gender and wage affect job promotion? The answers to these varied questions have one thing in common: they employ grouped or categorical data. Happiness is often reported on cales of 1 to 10 (Winkelmann 2005). Tobacco users and cigarette smokers are asked if they are “non-users,” “light users,” or “heavy users” (Harris and Zhao 2007). In some professions, such as the British nursing field, careers are assigned ranks from one to six Pudney and Shields 2000). Categsorization often cannot be avoided when collecting data. The …
America’S Prodigal Devotion To Light Rail: Did Denver’S Light Rail System Help With Traffic Decongestion?, Thomas Kelemen, Dr. Michael Ransom
America’S Prodigal Devotion To Light Rail: Did Denver’S Light Rail System Help With Traffic Decongestion?, Thomas Kelemen, Dr. Michael Ransom
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Over the past twenty years, the Denver Regional Transit District has developed an extensive light rail public transit system in the Denver, Colorado metro area. This development was motivated, at least in part, by severe highway congestion on important highway routes to downtown Denver. In a recent analysis, Bhattacharjee and Goetz (2012) suggest that the presence of the light rail system has reduced the growth of highway traffic on major highways near the light rail network by ten percent, relative to routes in areas not served by light rail. We show that such an effect is implausibly large. We provide …
Skill, Complexity, And Strategic Interaction, Val Lambson, John Van Den Berghe
Skill, Complexity, And Strategic Interaction, Val Lambson, John Van Den Berghe
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Abstract: We present a win-loss game between players with explicitly-modeled cognitive limitations. Differences in the players’ abilities to analyze the available actions and deduce the optimal choices induce preferences over the complexity of the environment and hence incentives to manipulate that complexity. More skilled players are always at an advantage. In a class of long-horizon games with constant complexity, greater complexity favors the less- skilled player when the more-skilled player is the last mover. When the less-skilled player moves last there are countervailing effects. Finally, when complexity can be manipulated over the course of the game, the benefits of strategic …
Liquidity, Market Depth, And Informed Trading, Roy Roth, Dr. Scott Condie
Liquidity, Market Depth, And Informed Trading, Roy Roth, Dr. Scott Condie
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Hidden limit orders have been increasingly important in asset markets over the past several years. These orders are hidden in the sense that they are not displayed or announced in any way until another order is sent to the market that trades with the hidden order. Traditionally, the two major order types in asset markets are market orders and limit orders. A market order contains instructions to buy or sell a given number of shares of a specific asset immediately at the best possible price, while a limit order signals a trader’s willingness to buy (sell) a certain number of …
Health Insurance Market Inefficiencies For The Children Of Teen Mothers, Joshua Witter, Joseph Price
Health Insurance Market Inefficiencies For The Children Of Teen Mothers, Joshua Witter, Joseph Price
Journal of Undergraduate Research
I was awarded an ORCA grant to research the unique health insurance market that the children of teen mothers face. I became concerned that these children may not have equal access to private insurance coverage and as a result were at risk of being uninsured or over-enrolling in public insurance programs such as Medicaid. The majority of these children are living in three-generation households where their grandparents are the primary financial provider for the household members. In many instances, but not all, insurance companies will not permit dependent grandchildren to be added to the grandparent’s health insurance plan, especially if …
The Dynamic Effects Of Changes To Japanese Immigration, Ryne Belliston, Kerk Phillips
The Dynamic Effects Of Changes To Japanese Immigration, Ryne Belliston, Kerk Phillips
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Immigration issues create tough political problems for policy makers. Whether or not to allow workers from low wage countries to migrate to high wage countries is a source of constant domestic and international political debate. Japan is a country facing an aging population and low birthrates, and thus is forced to consider changes to their immigration policies. Immigration would likely help Japanese firms and capital owners but would likely hurt Japanese workers. Additionally, as incomes have risen, the lure of higher wages has made Japan a more attractive place for non-Japanese laborers to work.
A Big Data Approach To Optimal Taxation, Christian Baker, Richard W. Evans
A Big Data Approach To Optimal Taxation, Christian Baker, Richard W. Evans
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In this project we develop a big data computational technique to solve optimal policy problems and use this method to perform an analysis of optimal sales taxation. This approach provides for the consideration of a much richer sales tax schedule than current theoretical models allow. These same tools can also be used for a wide array of economic policy research.
Openness And Inflation In The Long Run, David Beheshti, Richarch Evans
Openness And Inflation In The Long Run, David Beheshti, Richarch Evans
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Since the collapse of the Bretton-Woods Agreement in 1973, inflation rates have been steadily decreasing in most of the developed world. At the same time, countries have become increasingly open to international trade (see Figure 1). A possible explanation is that openness to trade and inflation are negatively correlated. This relationship is predicted in a highly-cited theoretical model by economist Kenneth Rogoff (1985) and in most of the previous literature on the subject. However, a more recent theoretical paper (Evans 2012) predicts that countries may engage in inflationary policy in order to tax foreign holders of domestic currency. As countries …
Gender And Political Ambition, Jessica Preece, Olga Bogach
Gender And Political Ambition, Jessica Preece, Olga Bogach
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The purpose of this proposal was to fund a field experiment that examined the ways in which political parties could increase women’s desire to run for office (their “political ambition”). Specifically, we worked with the Utah County Republican Party1 to organize a “Prospective Candidate Information Seminar” to which they invited over 11,000 active party members. However, there were several versions of the invitation that made different kinds of appeals (to civic duty or by talking about the part-time nature of political positions in Utah, for example).
Assessing The Effects Of Common Social Identity On Individual Effort And Cooperation In Cross-Gender Teams., Joseph Price
Assessing The Effects Of Common Social Identity On Individual Effort And Cooperation In Cross-Gender Teams., Joseph Price
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The academic objectives of this projects included introducing mentored students to experimental methods in economics and providing them with a unique experience working with the tools of this new field. This was particularly important for our students preparing to attend graduate school and likely to work for companies such as Savvysherpa, for which experimental methods are becoming a very important tool.
Assessing The Effects Of Common Social Identity On Individual Effort And Cooperation In Cross-Gender Teams., Joseph Price
Assessing The Effects Of Common Social Identity On Individual Effort And Cooperation In Cross-Gender Teams., Joseph Price
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The academic objectives of this projects included introducing mentored students to experimental methods in economics and providing them with a unique experience working with the tools of this new field. This was particularly important for our students preparing to attend graduate school and likely to work for companies such as Savvysherpa, for which experimental methods are becoming a very important tool.