Let’s Talk About Race (or Anything)
by Julia Ruolan Ma Abstract Oral history interviews contain rich information about how individuals understand their experiences, but their length and complexity have limited their use in empirical research. I develop episodic interview analysis, a framework that segments each interview into thematic episodes at natural transition points, constructing six composite indices capturing both what narrators […]
Cannibalization or Complementarity? The Effect of Online Sports Betting on Brick-and-Mortar Casino Revenues
by Aneesh Shah Kulkarni Abstract This paper estimates the causal effect of online sports betting (OSB) launch on land-based casino revenues using a staggered difference-in-differences framework applied to a monthly panel of 23 U.S. states from 2012 through 2025. OSB launch produces no detectable reduction in total casino revenues but is associated with a 15 […]
Reel Representation: The Economic Impact of Gender on Bollywood Box Office Revenue
by Sidharth Ravi Abstract The Hindi Film Industry, known as Bollywood, is seen as a gatekeeper of Indian culture. Annually thousands of films are produced, half a million workers across India are employed and millions in revenue is created. Although Bollywood has ensured increased employment and wage opportunities for women on and off screen, the […]
Religious Identity and Climate-Sustainable Behavior
by Zixin “Finnie” Zhao Abstract What motivates individual action on climate change? The study focuses on the potential influence of religious identities. It employs a laboratory experiment to investigate how priming religious identity affects individuals’ donation behaviors to climate versus non-climate charities in a dictator game setting. In contrast with expectations, this study finds no […]
Arts Organizations and Community Socioeconomic Development
by Madeleine Reinhard Abstract This paper studies the effects of arts organizations on local socioeconomic development at the U.S. ZIP code tabulation area (ZCTA) level. While prior studies have qualitatively examined the impact of the arts industry or artistic individuals on their communities, few have approached this question econometrically, and even fewer have investigated the […]
Tale of Two Cities An Econometric Analysis of East & West Coast Fine Art Galleries
by Daniella Victoria Paretti Abstract In a 2021 report published alongside Art Basel and UBS, renowned cultural economist Dr. Clare McAndrew posited that the value of art sales in 2020 amounted to an impressive $50 billion (although this actually marks an over 10-year low). It is no secret that the global art markets are extremely […]
Analysis of Brain Diagnoses and the Incidence of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
by Arjun Lakhanpal Abstract Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has become a significant area of scientific inquiry in relation to various sports with contact exposure, specifically boxing and professional football, resulting from many individuals who participated in these sports being diagnosed with CTE neuropathology after death. This paper contributes to the CTE literature by analyzing the […]
User Loyalty and Willingness to Pay for a Music Streaming Subscription
By Nell Jones Music streaming has increased industry revenue and displaced piracy, but limited profits for artists. In this thesis, I examine user loyalty to streaming platforms, focusing on the asset specificity of features and estimating what users are willing to pay for each of these features. A structural equation model of survey data […]
Investigating the Costs of Religious Observance: Cross-Country Analysis of Islamic Banking
By Myla Swallow and Richard Vargo This study regresses key variables that influence the profitability of Conventional and Islamic banks as measured by Return on Average Assets, to determine the impact of Islamicity on the profitability of the banks in a given country. The study compares 36564 banks in 77 countries belonging to both Islamic […]
The Effect of Tourism on Child Health Outcomes in Roatán, Honduras
By Hemal Pragneshbhai Patel Increased tourism, especially in developing economies, brings with it more economic opportunities and avenues for development. In Roatán, the largest of Honduras’ Caribbean Bay Islands, tourism has brought economic development that the island had never before experienced. However, the impact of this economic development brought by increasing cruise ship tourism on […]
