Congratulations to Josiah Schlechty and Tressa Ballard at the
33rd Annual Issues in Political Economy undergraduate research conference
Josiah Schlechty and Tressa Ballard traveled to New York City to participate in the 33rd Annual IPE Conference for Undergraduate Research. This event consisted of “student presentations from across the United States on topics ranging from health care and video games to crime and public policy.” Each presentation used “regression analysis to explain and test theoretical models,” and students were given “valuable feedback” on their research papers. These presentations were cultivated in our ECON 361: Intro to Econometrics taught by Dr. Amrita Dhar. Students were also able to explore New York and visit common tourist spots like Wall Street and Times Square; they even took a ferry to Brooklyn.
Josiah presented on The Impact of School Rankings on Housing Distribution, where he used a regression model looking at the effect of school rankings with control variables like teacher-to-student ratio and population, finding that school rankings have a positive effect on housing prices.
Tressa presented on The Effectiveness of Prevention Methods on DUI Offenses, where she used a regression model on the effect of Government interventions, in terms of policy, to find whether they have a statistically significant effect on DUI’s when taking control variables into consideration.
Recent Conferences:
17th Annual Economics Scholars Program Conference for Undergraduate Research
The University of Mary Washington’s Department of Economics is so excited that every student who applied their research to this conference has been invited to present their findings on a variety of topics from the effect of uniform sidewalks on housing prices to fixed state effects on opioid overdoes.
Congrats to the UMW scholars who presented!!
More information is available on the official website for this event linked below
https://www.dallasfed.org/educate/events/2023/23esp