Final year dissertations
Over the years, Christ’s Economics students have written interesting and exciting dissertations in their final year at Cambridge (some even received special recognition by the Faculty of Economics examiners):
Martin Brogaard, Inside the Fourth estate: An empirical analysis of political commentary in US cable news, 2023
Benjamin Holland, Tilting the scales: Investigating the nature of political lobbying using contract-level data in the US, 2023
Oliver Norbury, Just What the Doctor Ordered: Understanding Prescriptions in the UK, 2023
Eu-Wayne Mok, Beyond the law’s borders: Evidence on what shapes judicial decisions from U.S. immigration cases, 2022, winner of the Gladstone Memorial Prize (shared)
Elizabeth Leong, An empirical study on the effects of a health insurance mandate, 2022
Luca Righetti, Self-reinforcing Corruption: Evidence from the MPs’ Expenses Scandal, 2020, nominated for the Gladstone Memorial Prize
Sajan Shah, The price of free education: Extracting the school quality premium in housing using Brighton and Hove’s school admission reforms, 2018, winner of the Adam Smith Prize for the Best Dissertation (shared), nominated for the Gladstone Memorial Prize
Andreas Kalker, Trade Credit Extension: The Role of Supplier Collateral, 2010, winner of the Adam Smith Prize for the Best Dissertation