The Duke Journal of Economics is published each year to showcase outstanding research in economics by Duke Graduate and Undergraduate students.

We congratulate the authors of the research presented in this issue.

Charles Becker, Lawrence Kreicher, and Ed Tower, Faculty Advisors to the Journal 

 

Undergraduate Articles

Brew, Ronan–A Two-Stage Analysis Considering Gun Theft & Overall Crime: Evidence from Child Access Prevention Laws

Bussey, Jakobe–The Press and Peace, Examining Iraq War Coverage in Newspapers using BERT LLMs 

Clark, William–Analyzing the Common Ratio Effect and Ambiguity Aversion in Poker

Cui, Annie–Free University? An Investigation of Australia’s 1974 Free Higher Education Policy and Its Impact on Enrollment, Degree Completion, Later-Life Occupational Status, and Income

Gupta, Parinay–Intergenerational Economic Transfers and Wealth Inequality in the United States

Hervey, Jacob–Splitting Hairs or Splitting Regions: The Differential Democratic Impacts of Splitting ZIP Codes vs. Counties During Redistricting Author: Jacob 

Liu, Audrey–Effects of Neighborhoods on Children’s Educational Outcomes in Indonesia

Reinhard, Madeleine–Arts Organizations and Community Socioeconomic Development

Ullendorff, Abigail–The Effect of Gun Prevalence on the Occurrence of School Shootings 

Zhao, Zixin “Finnie”–View Thesis

 

Graduate Articles

Xu, Yinan–Involution in Competition: Upgraded efforts yield declining results

Zhao, Xiaoyi–Effect of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia on Unassisted Suicide