MS in Applied and Resource Economics Research Papers

2009

Student	Paper	Date	Advisor
Johanna Retana	Economic Well Being in Nicaragua: A Food Share Analysis 2001 & 2005	June 2009	John Bishop
Jens Schubert	Portfolio Life Cycle Selection - Theory and Experiment	June 2006	Jamie Kruse

2005

Student	Paper	Date	Advisor(s)
Fang Qian	Earnings Benefit and Party Membership in Urban China	May 2005	John Bishop and Haiyong Liu
Jee Hwang	Reflections of School Quality on the Housing Market: Extending the Definition of Better Schools	May 2005	Okmyung Bin

2004

Student	Paper	Date	Advisor
Tejashree Sayanak	Do Low Cost Carriers Provide Low Quality Service?	July 2004	Nick Rupp
Qi (Kevin) Meng	The Effect of Cigarette Prices on Smoking Decision and Intensity in China	June 2004	John Bishop
Tuvshintulga Bold	Explaining Rise of Barter in Russia: Virtual Economy vs. Monetary Issues	April 2004	Richard Ericson

2003

Student	Paper	Date	Advisor
Jessie Mai	Adjusted Gini Coefficients with Quantile Regression	July 2003	John Bishop
J. Brett Joyal	Vote Production Functions: An Analysis Of Campaign Expenditures And Election Outcomes In North Carolina	July 2003	Mark Holmes
Xi (Jane) Pan	Evaluating Regional Poverty in China With Subjective Equivalence Scales	July 2003	John Bishop
Junhua Yu	A Nested Logit Approach to Airline Operations Decision Process	June 2003	Nick Rupp
Hemant Patil	Are Prices Procyclical?: A Disaggregate Level Analysis	June 2003	Randy Parker

2002

Student	Paper	Date	Advisor
Afua Dei-Tutu	Flood Hazards, Insurance, and House Prices - A Hedonic Property Price Analysis	December 2002	Okmyung Bin
Brandon Payne	Estimating The Risk Premium Of Law Enforcement Officers	November 2002	Ed Schumacher
Brian Tinga	The Relationship between Complementary & Alternative Healthcare versus Traditional Healthcare	July 2002	Marjorie Baldwin
Amy Elizabeth Corman	How Teen Sexual Behavior Responds to Sexually Transmitted Disease Risks	June 2002	Jeff DeSimone
Fang Wang	The Application of Quantile Regression in Analysis of Gender Earnings Gap in China	June 2002	John Bishop
Jingyi Chen	Do Financial Market Variables Predict Unemployment Rate Fluctuations?	June 2002	Phil Rothman
Paul Hindsley	Factors Leading to Implementation of Agricultural Best Management Practices on the Neuse River Basin	June 2002	John Whitehead

2001

Student	Paper	Date	Advisor
John Thomas	Identifying Targets and Acquirers in Bank Mergers	December 2001	Mark Holmes
Brian Fields	Estimating the Value of Major League Baseball Players	July 2001	Ed Schumacher
Amy Ehrsam	Managed Care Penetration and the Earnings of Health Care Workers	July 2001	Ed Schumacher
Fei Gao	The Incidence and Outcomes of Surgery Among Workers' Compensation Back Claims	July 2001	Marjorie Baldwin
Li Zhang	The Impact of Transaction Tax on Stock Markets: Evidence from an emerging market	July 2001	Dong Li
Shuang Chen	The Effect of Physician Supply on Rural Community Health: 1980-1988	July 2001	Mark Holmes
Evan Gutshall	Teen Cocaine and Marijuana Demand in the 1990's	July 2001	Jeff DeSimone
Darren Stillwell	An Out-of Sample Forecasting Analysis of the Granger-causal Relationship Between Fed Policy and Stock Returns	July 2001	Phil Rothman
Brad Salin	Teen Suicide Attempts in the 1990's	June 2001	Jeff DeSimone
Qing Fang	Changes In Determinants Of Personal Earnings In People's Republic Of China In 1988 And In 1995	May 2001	John Bishop
Isaac Baah Kwakye	The Economic Effects of Fish Kills and a Seafood Inspection Program in North Carolina	May 2001	John Whitehead

2000

Student	Paper	Date	Advisor
Michael MacKenzie	The Response of Drug Injection Behavior to Local Heroin Prices and Prevalence of AIDS and Hepatitis	July 2000	Jeff DeSimone
Brian Smith	Perceived Quality of Public Schools	July 2000	Carson Bays
Stokes Malone	An Investigation of Money Supply Shock Asymmetry Using Disaggregated Data	July 2000	Randy Parker
Bret Creech	The Effect of Cocaine and Heroin Prices and Arrests on Cocaine and Heroin-Related Deaths	July 2000	Jeff DeSimone
Laziz A. Karimov	Collecting and Using Labor Force Statistics with an Application to the Amount and Duration of Unemployment	July 2000	John Bishop
Brandon Dunlop	The Effects of SSI and DI on the Employment of the Disabled	July 2000	Mark Holmes
Jeff Rinehart	Labor Force Participation Responses to the OBRA93 Expansion of the EITC	July 2000	Jeff DeSimone
Yafu Zhao	A Moving Window Analysis of the Granger Causal Relationship Between Money and Stock Returns	July 2000	Phil Rothman
Lisa P. Compton	Is There Really a Tradeoff Between Wages and Pension Coverage?	July 2000	Linda Ghent
ChunWei Lai	The Change of Job Mobility among Workers with Disability in the Early 1990's	June 2000	Ed Schumacher
Patrick Swain	The Earnings and Employment of Health Therapists	June 2000	Ed Schumacher
Genuan Gunawardhana	Poverty Trends in Lima after the Conversion from Heterodox to Orthodox Policies	May 2000	Lester Zeager
Josh Olinick	Risk Perceptions, Food Quality, and the Demand for Seafood: A Study from Eastern North Carolina	May 2000	Tim Haab