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

Elections and Voting

Race, Representation, and Local Governments in the US South: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act

Bernini, Facchini & Testa (2023).

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos

Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers during an Election in Mozambique

Aker, Collier, & Vicente (2017).

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos

Foreign Aid

How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Werker, Ahmed & Cohen (2009).

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos

Aid under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict

Crost, Felter, Johnston (2014).

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos

Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset.

Dreher, Axel, et al. (2021).

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

Political Economy

Ethnic Diversity in Government and the Provision of Public Goods

Beach & Jones (2017)

Betreuer: Anna Gasten

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

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

Justyna Jantos

justyna.jantos@uni-goettingen.de

Verfügbarkeit: ab sofort