BACHELOR'S THESES
Below you find a list of suggested topics for bachelor theses. All topics refer to current empirical literature in economics and require students to read, replicate, and discuss empirical papers (in the area of expertise of our team members). If you have a very specific topic in mind and are convinced that our team would be the best fit for supervising it, do not hesitate to contact us.
Corruption
Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Olken (2007)
Betreuer: Anna Gasten
Development
Immigrants and the making of America
Sequeira, Nunn & Qian (2020)
Betreuer: Tobias Hellmundt
Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
Dell, Jones & Olken (2012)
Betreuer: Tobias Hellmundt
Elections and Voting
How do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates
Le Pennec & Pons (2023)
Betreuer: Justyna Jantos
Race, Representation, and Local Governments in the US South: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act
Bernini, Facchini & Testa (2023)
Betreuer: Justyna Jantos
Foreign Aid
How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Werker, Ahmed & Cohen (2009)
Betreuer: Justyna Jantos
US Food Aid and Civil Conflict
Nunn & Qian (2014)
Betreuer: Justyna Jantos
Gender
Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation
Afzal et al. (2018)
Betreuer: Anna Gasten
Migration
Exit, voice, and political change: Evidence from Swedish mass migration to the United States
Karadja & Prawitz (2019)
Betreuer: Justyna Jantos
Forced migration and human capital: Evidence from post-WWII population transfers
Becker et al. (2020)
Betreuer: Justyna Jantos
Political Economy
Ethnic Diversity in Government and the Provision of Public Goods
Beach & Jones (2017)
Betreuer: Anna Gasten
The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa
McGuirk & Burke (2020)
Betreuer: Tobias Hellmundt
The Non-Democratic Roots of Elite Capture: Evidence from Soeharto Mayors in Indonesia
Martinez-Bravo, Mukherjee & Stegmann (2017)
Betreuer: Tobias Hellmundt
The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions
Bazzi & Gudgeon (2021)
Betreuer: Tobias Hellmundt
The Violent Consequences of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement in Mexico
Dell et al. (2015)
Betreuer: Tobias Hellmundt
Cross-Border Media and Nationalism: Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia
DellaVigna et al. (2014)
Betreuer: Justyna Jantos
War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism: An Empirical Exploration
Acemoglu et al. (2022)
Betreuer: Justyna Jantos
Medication against conflict
Berlanda et al. (2024)
Betreuer: Justyna Jantos
Poverty
Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India
Barnhardt, Field & Pande (2017)
Betreuer: Anna Gasten
Contact
Anna Gasten
anna.gasten@uni-goettingen.de
Verfügbarkeit: ab sofort
Tobias Hellmundt
tobias.hellmundt@uni-goettingen.de
Verfügbarkeit: ab sofort
Justyna Jantos
justyna.jantos@uni-goettingen.de
Verfügbarkeit: ab sofort
