Here are our thesis projects at the halfway point.
Kayla: the economics of child protection and foster care.
Kevin: (1) how are the different subfields of economics related to one another? (2) matching markets, such as dating apps.
Stella: how to ethically communicate climate information.
Will: (1) why is the American south overrepresented in high-brow literature? (2) Why do people care so much about sports?
Oliver: alternatives to GDP for measuring social progress (or decline).
August: (1) games and the attention economy (2) how can we encourage more human centered design?