- What Gets Measured Gets Managed: Climate Reporting Mandate for Publicly Traded Companies
This is a paper written for a public sector economics course at Davidson College taught by Dr. O’Keefe. Written on December 2, 2021. The US is the second-largest emitter of carbon emissions in the world. Businesses are significant contributors to US’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, but they are not currently mandated to report those emissions. … - What Effect Will the SEC’s New Money Market Rules Have on The US Economy, and What Are the Alternatives?
The money market fund market is a central part of the US economy — Americans have roughly $5 trillion invested in money market funds (MMF). The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposes new regulations to prevent investors from fleeing MMF instruments during financial crises such as the recessions in 2008 and 2020. Interest rates were … - Modeling Consumer Decisions: Sustainability and Fashion
This is an academic paper for Computational Economics Course at Davidson College with Dr. Shyam Gouri Suresh. Written December 10th 2021. Introduction Climate change is a severe global problem that needs to be addressed immediately. Fashion – especially fast fashion – is a significant contributor to environmental degradation. Research by McKinsey & Co. indicates that … - Creole Language Evolution in an Agent-Based Model
This is an academic paper for Computational Economics Course at Davidson College with Dr. Shyam Gouri Suresh. Written November 12th 2021. This paper was a group project with Clay Tribus ’22 and Sam Cascio ’22. Introduction Creole languages are a type of language that emerges when groups of people who do not share a common … - Balenciaga Crocs: How Fashion Trends Emerge Through a Learning Model
This is an academic paper for Computational Economics Course at Davidson College with Dr. Shyam Gouri Suresh. Written December 10th 2021. This paper was a group project with Clay Tribus ’22 and Sam Cascio ’22. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” — Coco Chanel Introduction In general, fashion trends originate with … - Mycorrhizal Fungi Network: Dynamic Agent-Based Spatial Model
This is an academic project for the Computational Economics course at Davidson College with Dr. Professor Gouri-Suresh. This is a group project with Sena Hur, Ian Rolls, and Brooke Whitcomb written on 21st October 2021 Introduction Mycorrhizal fungi are known to sustain all terrestrial ecosystems by transferring vital resources through root networks (Watkinson 2015, Simard … - Static Spatial Modeling of Gun Ownership with Varying Degrees of Segregation
This is an academic paper for the Computational Economics course at Davidson College, with Dr. Shyam Gouri Suresh. This is a group project with Brooke Whitcomb, Sreylin Touch, Satyajit Banerjee. Written on 28th September 2021. Introduction US citizens have yet to come to a consensus on whether or how to regulate guns despite the high … - What a 20-Something Has to Say About Biden’s Social Security Reform
this is an op-ed on Social Security Reform Social Security is the largest and most successful government program. It affects every American. It is also in crisis. The Social Security trust fund is estimated to be depleted by 2035, resulting in an across-the-board 20% reduction in benefits regardless of age or income. Although the 20% … - The Effect of the American Jobs Plan by the Biden Administration on Macroeconomic Factors
This is a paper analyzes Biden’s infrastructure plan using two schools of thought: Classical economics and the Keynesian model. This is part of a final in ECO 205 Macroeconomics at Davidson College with Dr. Gouri Suresh Biden’s infrastructure plan would increase government spending significantly on infrastructure projects such as highways, bridges, transportation systems, electric grids, … - An Antiracist Lens on Social Security Reform
This is a co-written paper for an economics independent study with Joe Craven, and Dr. Gouri Suresh at Davidson College co-written with Michaela Gibbons and Bryce Kalsu Introduction According to scholar and activist Ibram X. Kendi, an antiracist policy is “any measure that produces or sustains racial equity between racial groups” (2019). In his book, … - How Women are Represented in Sports Media: Text Analysis in Sports Illustrated
This is a paper I wrote for ECO 227 Economics of Gender and Family class with Dr. Angela Cools at Davidson College Introduction There is a substantial gender pay gap between male and female professional athletes. It is difficult to measure and compare athletes’ earnings in different sports and across leagues, but still, disparities come … - CARES Act — should congress continue benefits after July 31st?
The CARES Act provided supplemental unemployment insurance benefits of $600 a week to all workers who qualify for benefits. These benefits expire at the end of July. Should this supplement be extended? The CARES act unemployment insurance should not be extended. Shutdowns to reduce the spread of COVID-19 caused businesses to layoff their workers by … - Does Having More Make You Use Less? Scarcity Effects on Water Use
This is the final project for Econometrics Class Does the size of a site determine the quality of water management? I study determinants of overwatering for commercial and public sites in Northern California. I investigate how total landscaped area affects stakeholder’s engagement with a water management program. I find that larger sites are much more … - Paying Not To Go to the Gym
Brooke Whitcomb Motivation is difficult, and it’s hard to stick to a plan. How should a person optimize a plan to make better decisions? In their paper, “Paying Not to Go to the Gym”, DellaVigna and Malmender find that gym members who pay $70 per month only visit the gym on average 4.3 times per … - The Effect of Social Norms on Pro-Environmental Sorting Trash Behavior
This paper is my final project in my introduction stats class Abstract This study focuses on the relationship between descriptive social norms and pro-environmental behavior. I evaluate visual cues in the form of the fullness of a compost bin as evidence of others recycling behavior. I measured pro-environmental behavior in the form of an individual’s …
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