Several economics students presented their research March 9-11 at the Eastern Economics Association’s annual conference in Boston, Mass.
Economics majors Grace Foster, Tyler Zoda, Joe Patterson, Thomas Whyel and Alex Spitz participated in the 12 undergraduate research sessions sponsored by Issues in Political Economy (IPE).
More than 50 students from 20 colleges and universities throughout the country participated in 3 days of sessions. Students came from institutions such as Furman, Smith, Gettysburg, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Stonehill College, St. Lawrence University, Fairfield University, and Austin College.
The 5 Elon papers presented were:
Joseph Patterson, “How Much Congestion is too Much Congestion?” (Mentor: Thomas Tiemann)
Alexander D. Spitz, “The Effect of Gas Prices on Box Office Movie Revenue: As Prices Increase Are Americans Rethinking Forms of Entertainment?” (Mentor: Mark Kurt)
Grace Foster, “The Long Term and Short Term Effect of Single-Sex Education on Extracurricular Participation” (Mentor: Katy Rouse)
Tyler Steven Zoda, “Can T. Boone Pickens Buy Smarter Students? The Effect of Athletic Spending on Football Championship Subdivision Academic Institutions” (Mentor: Jennifer Platania)
Thomas Scott Whyel, “Demographics Influence on Global Current Account Imbalances in Advanced Economies” (Mentor: Vitaliy Strohush)
The IPE is the leading undergraduate research journal in economics and is co-edited completely by undergraduates at Elon University and the University of Mary Washington. Elon has co-edited the journal since 1998. The IPE is indexed in Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Economics & Finance. Steve DeLoach is the faculty advisor to the IPE.