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.

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

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

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

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

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

Tobias Hellmundt

tobias.hellmundt@uni-goettingen.de

Verfügbarkeit: ab sofort

Justyna Jantos

justyna.jantos@uni-goettingen.de

Verfügbarkeit: ab sofort