BACHELOR'S THESES




Below you find a list of suggested topics for bachelor theses. All topics refer to current empirical literature in economics and require students to read, replicate, and discuss empirical papers (in the area of expertise of our team members). If you have a very specific topic in mind and are convinced that our team would be the best fit for supervising it, do not hesitate to contact us.



Corruption



Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Olken (2007)

Betreuer: Anna Gasten





Elections and Voting



How do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates

Le Pennec & Pons (2023)

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos





Race, Representation, and Local Governments in the US South: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act

Bernini, Facchini & Testa (2023)

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos





Foreign Aid



How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Werker, Ahmed & Cohen (2009)

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos





US Food Aid and Civil Conflict

Nunn & Qian (2014)

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos





Gender



Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation

Afzal et al. (2018)

Betreuer: Anna Gasten





Migration



Exit, voice, and political change: Evidence from Swedish mass migration to the United States

Karadja & Prawitz (2019)

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos





Forced migration and human capital: Evidence from post-WWII population transfers

Becker et al. (2020)

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos





Political Economy



Ethnic Diversity in Government and the Provision of Public Goods

Beach & Jones (2017)

Betreuer: Anna Gasten





Cross-Border Media and Nationalism: Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia

DellaVigna et al. (2014)

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos





War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism: An Empirical Exploration

Acemoglu et al. (2022)

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos





Medication against conflict

Berlanda et al. (2024)

Betreuer: Justyna Jantos





Poverty



Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India

Barnhardt, Field & Pande (2017)

Betreuer: Anna Gasten





Contact



Anna Gasten

anna.gasten@uni-goettingen.de

Verfügbarkeit: ab sofort





Justyna Jantos

justyna.jantos@uni-goettingen.de

Verfügbarkeit: ab sofort