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 and FDI
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
Resource Discoveries, FDI Bonanzas, and Local Multipliers: Evidence from Mozambique
Toews and Vézina (2022).
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
Cash Transfers and Migration: Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Gazeaud, Mvukiyehe, & Sterck. (2023)..
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
Trade
The China syndrome: Local labor market effects of import competition in the United States
Autor, Dorn and Hanson (2013)
Betreuer: Julian Mayrhuber
The effect of trade on workers and voters
Dippel, Gold, Heblich and Pinto (2022)
Betreuer: Julian Mayrhuber
Distance, trade, and income—The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment
Feyrer (2021)
Betreuer: Julian Mayrhuber
Did trade liberalization with China influence US elections?
Che, Pierce, Schott and Tao (2022)
Betreuer: Julian Mayrhuber
Factor immobility and regional impacts of trade liberalization: Evidence on poverty from India
Topalova (2010)
Betreuer: Julian Mayrhuber
Contact
Anna Gasten
anna.gasten@uni-goettingen.de
Verfügbarkeit: ab sofort
Justyna Jantos
justyna.jantos@uni-goettingen.de
Verfügbarkeit: ab sofort
Julian Mayrhuber
julian.mayrhuber@uni-goettingen.de
Verfügbarkeit: ab sofort
