Student Zach McDade worked with Professor Amy Damon to collect data in Nicaragua. He investigated the effect of solar lights on household production activities and educational outcomes in communities that did not have access to electricity.
Faculty- Student Research
Professor Amy Damon worked with Zach McDade ’10 (Boulder, Colo.) to collect preliminary data in Nicaragua during summer 2009. Zach investigated the effect of solar lights on household production activities and educational outcomes in communities that did not have access to electricity.
Professor Raymond Robertson worked with Cael Warren ’09 (Stevens Point, Wis.) researching working conditions in Cambodian garment factories. Professor Liang Ding and Manoj Vemula ’10 (Bangalore, India), with the support of a Keck grant, explored how electronic trading systems affect market liquidity in the foreign exchange market.
Professor Liang Ding and Hao Zou ’10 (Suzhou, China), with the support of a Keck grant, examined the impact of increasing market transparency on the price efficiency in the foreign exchange market.
Professor Pete Ferderer and Stamo Hadjiyski ’10 (Sofia, Bulgaria), with the support of a Keck grant, explored the herding behavior and biases of macroeconomic forecasters in the years leading up to the current economic crisis.
Professor Sarah West ’91 and Aleksander Azarnov ’10 (Johvi, Estonia), with the support of a Keck grant, are studying the degree to which vehicle purchase decisions are affected by changes in gasoline prices. While we might expect households to increase demand for fuel efficient vehicles in response to higher gasoline prices, preliminary estimates suggest that households are far less responsive than expected. This work is part of a larger project that Professor West is undertaking with University of Chicago professor Jim Sallee ’01.