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If you are a junior, with a minimum of 3.40 GPA and have enjoyed writing
a research paper in one of your economics classes, this might be the right
thing for you. A thesis is a great opportunity for a real capstone experience
as part of your economics major.
What to do? It is important that you find a faculty member to be your Thesis advisor.
So if you have some ideas about a thesis topic, please talk with your advisor or a
member of the economics faculty with similar research interests (see the department
website for faculty research areas). Or talk to the faculty thesis coordinator who
might help match your with a faculty advisor.
Senior Honors Thesis Facts:
- A Senior Honors Thesis is a two-semester (2 credit) long project that results in a thesis paper.
- Students also enroll each semester in a 1/2 credit pass/fail course (Ec197: Senior Thesis Research Seminar)
- Counts as two upper-level electives towards the economics major
- It is overseen by (at least) a two-person committee consisting of an advisor and a reader.
- A Senior Honors Thesis should answer a (very) specific question or test a particular hypotheses
- It usually has an empirical component (but not necessarily)
- Generally the narrower the topic/ the more specific the question, the better the thesis
- Can be in any area of economics
For more information and /or copies of Senior Honors Thesis: click
here.
Learn more about writing a successful
senior honor thesis or visit the Tufts Digital Collections and
Archives website for
guidelines for an honors thesis.
2010 Theses
Senior Honors Theses (April 2010)
Debra E. Ang
"The Effect of Reputation Concerns on Labor Law
Compliance: A Case Study of Cambodia's Garment Factories"
Advisors: Drusilla Brown and
David Garman
David Coyne
"Does Money Grow on Trees? How Institutions and
Policies Shape Economic Growth"
Advisor: Chih Ming Tan
Maria Fulwiler
"The Economic Legacy of Population Transfers
in Socialist and Post-Socialist Czechoslovakia"
Advisor: Enrico Spolaore
Robert Havdala
"The Impact of High
Stakes Standardized Testing on High Achieving School
Districts: The Case of MCAS"
Advisor: Jeffrey Zabel
Elizabeth Mishkin
"The Redistributive Effects of British
Subsidies to Higher Education"
Advisor: Thomas Downes
Emily Morgan
"Are Landlords Different? Foreclosure in
Single-Family, Duplex, and Triple-Decker Housing in Massachusetts, 1998-2009"
Advisor: Anna Hardman
Lauren Visek
"Who Benefits from US Food Aid?"
Advisor: Margaret McMillan
Master's Theses (April 2010)
Morris Chow
"Health Outcomes in Early Adulthood: Is it Nature or Nurture?"
Advisor: Rajeev Dehejia
Marina Gorsuch (Henken Scholar 2009-2010)
"Marriage and the Division of Household and Market Labor"
Advisor: Edward Kutsoati
Yan Bai (July 2009)
"Regional Disparity in China 1995-2007 and Fiscal Transfer Reform of 1995"
Advisor: Chih Ming Tan
Tong Xu (July 2009)
"Merger Wave and Merger Motive"
Advisor: George Norman
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