Economic Education Events

15th Annual Economic Scholars Program Conference for Undergraduate Research

October 22, 2021

Virtual Conference

The Economics Scholars Program (ESP) is a collaborative effort between Austin College and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to foster the involvement of undergraduate economics students in all facets of research.

The cornerstone of the ESP is the annual ESP Conference. Since 2007, student scholars and faculty from institutions across the U.S. and Canada have come together to share undergraduate student-initiated or student–faculty coauthored works, ideas about the role of undergraduate research in the curriculum and the challenges and concerns of undergraduates who conduct research.

Agenda

9:00 a.m.	Welcome Armida Riojas, Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
9:45 a.m.	Presentation Session One The Phillips Curve and Its 21st Century Evolution Michael Kashian, Marquette University Forward Expectations of Inflation’s Effects on Equity Style Factor Excess Performance Nicholas DeFrancesco, University of North Carolina at Wilmington County Level Changes Alone Predicted Biden Win in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin Rachel Rucker, Stephen F. Austin University Modern-Day Social Stratification? Exploratory Analysis of Socioeconomic Status and Stagnant College Degree Completion Rates Kenneth Skidmore and Kale Tendick, Texas State University
11:00 a.m.	Presentation Session Two Professor-only session: Federal Reserve Internship Opportunities The Effect of Real Broad Effective Exchange Rates and Inflation on Middle Eastern Conflict Paycen Brouillette, Louisiana Tech University The Effect of the Coronavirus on Low-Income Counties in Texas Avery Atencio, Austin College The Relationship Between Fuel Consumption and Carbon Emissions in Canada Using Multiple Regression and Recommendations for Vietnam Anh Nguyen, Texas Christian University Changes in Emergency Department Visits After the ACA Medicaid Expansion: Evidence from State-Level Data Ningzhou Gu, The University of Texas at Austin/ University of Texas Health Houston
12:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	Presentation Session Three Should Central Banks Lend to Local Governments in Times of Crisis? Evidence from the Federal Reserve’s Covid-19 Municipal Liquidity Facility Rohan Garg, Yale University Impacts of COVID-Induced Recession on Unemployment Rate of Minority Groups Across Counties in the United States Moses Addai, Soka University of America Great Recession vs. COVID-19: Differences in the Nature of Unemployment Inhye Kim, Boston University The Effects of Economic Stability on Events of Civil Unrest in Latin America Marissa Schmoecker, University of North Carolina at Wilmington First-Generation Status and College Entrance Exam Scores in the United States Soo Jee Choi, The University of Texas at Austin Income Inequality and Asset Price Bubbles Tomer Fidelman, University of California Davis
2:45 p.m.	Presentation Session Four Effect of State Income on the Supply of Primary Care Services Ravi Palat, University of Mary Washington Intergenerational Income Mobility: Aptitude Versus Resources Yuwei Liu, Pace University The Genre Effect of Producer Versus Consumer Oriented Markets in the Video Game Industry Prithvi Kalunte, Austin College Does Military Expenditure Stifle Real GDP Growth? Nicolas Espana, University of Mary Washington
3:50 p.m.	Closing Keynote Marc Giannoni, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

A special thank you to our Peer Review Board who review and score all presentation proposals:

Aguiele Ndoungla Fobasso Awah, Austin College
Akash Thakkar, University of Texas at Austin
Aro Rajaonah, Northern Kentucky University
Christian Spurlock, Austin College
Connor Hanna, University of Texas at Austin
Madison Willard, Pace University
Michael Kashian, Marquette University
Patrick Miller, Louisiana Tech University
Paycen Brouillette, Louisiana Tech University
Parithvi Kalkunte, Austin College
Wenjie Sun, The University of Texas at Austin
Wes Stone, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Ximena Mercado Garcia, The University of Texas at Austin
Yuwei Liu, Pace University

For more information

Send questions to esp@dal.frb.org.