The Department of Economics has instituted a program of undergraduate research assistantships in which current students majoring in Economics work with faculty members to gain valuable research assistant experience on research projects. The EURA program engages students in cutting-edge economics beyond the classroom. All EURAs receive academic credit.
Economics undergraduate majors interested in the EURA program initiate the process of securing an RAship. Students are responsible for first connecting with various faculty in Economics who specialize in shared areas of interest, and asking if the faculty member is available to sponsor an RAship. Economics faculty profiles can be found here. If a faculty member agrees to sponsor you, they will work out a prospective research project overview with you. At that point, the student would then submit the student application linked to below, and the faculty sponsor would submit the faculty application linked to below.
Refer to Guidelines for Economics Undergraduate Research Assistants.
Deadline
The deadline for fall 2025 semester EURAs is September 5th.
Contact
The director of the EURA program is Noe Weiner, whose office is located in 222 Gordon Hall. Email @email for additional information.
Links
Student Application
Faculty Application
Spring 2025 EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Parice Bui & Finn Cunniffe | Itai Sher | Paternalism in Economics |
| Will Glass, Anya Lu, Matthew Miranda, Katelyn Patta & Yash Vipani | Kevin Young | Economic Elites in the United States and their Transnational Connections |
| Mira Lelchuk & Noah Shutts-Cartwright | John Clegg | Counterfactual Reparations: The effect of naval prizes on life outcomes of African American Civil War sailors |
| Kate Moody | Luis Monroy Gómez Franco | Precarious work in Mexico: A multidimensional approach |
| Timothy McGrath | Hendrik van den Berg | New Editions of Economics of Immigration and Economic Growth and Development |
| Ishaan Sahay | Jayati Ghosh | Analyzing Ghana's Economic Development and Debt Dynamics (1990–2020) |
| Pranav Joshi | Naoki Yoshihara | A Mathematical Marxian Analysis of Unequal Exchange in International Trade |
Fall 2024 EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Stanley Peng | Kevin Young | Economic and Political Elite Populations Across the World |
| Kylie Byrne | Kevin Young | Network Analysis of Political Elites by University |
| Grace Thompson | Gerald Epstein | Ad Dollars and Crypto Power in 2024 House Campaigns |
| Cleo Torgeson | Kevin Young | Elite Educational Backgrounds and Homogeneity |
| Jay Talwalkar | Gerald Epstein | Artificial Intelligence’s Influence on the Global Climate and Environment |
Spring 2024 EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Ali Almohssen | Kevin Young | Elite Network connectivity in the Denver Area in 1964 VS 1974 |
| Julian Zadow and Paisley Gavin | Marta Vicarelli | Recovery, Renewal, and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World |
| Jia Sharma | Kevin Young | Elite Structures and Debutante Connections: Analyzing Network Patterns in the Southern United States |
| Sol Doeleman | Kevin Young | Comparing Elite Social Networks in Zimbabwe Pre- and Post- Independence |
| Melissa Sun | Marta Vicarelli | Community Choice Energy (CCE) Programs: Opportunities and Challenges |
| Max Freedman | Katherine Moos | Fairly Compensating Teachers |
| Asta Motrenko | Ina Ganguli | War-Torn Innovation: The Development of Military Technologies in Ukraine |
| Hakon Lentz | Kevin Young | Visualizing the Elite Networks of Miami in 1989 |
| Durjoy Maitra | Henrik Van Den Berg | Stagflation: The Rise of Neoliberalism |
| Noah Shutts-Cartwright | Luis Monroy Gómez Franco | Model of the Learning Impacts of Educational Disruptions in the Short and Long run |
Fall 2023 EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Max Freedman | Noé Wiener | Investigating Overwork in Massachusetts Schools |
| Anthony Yasan | Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji | Regional Income Inequality in Kenya |
| Ashna Jain | Lenore Palladino | Electric Vehicles: How Corporate Guardrails Can Improve Market Structure |
| Durjoy Maitra | Hendrik Van den Berg | 1970s Stagflation: Is it happening again in 2023? A dialectic analysis. |
| Ayushi Garg | Chris Boone | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation |
| Ria Jain | Ina Ganguli | Labor Market Impacts of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 |
| Samira Alam | Marta Vicarelli | Towards a green and inclusive economic growth of the Blue Economy and coastal communities (RRR-Coast). |
| Camily De Oliveira Sena | Isabella Weber | Constructing Novel Dataset on Firm-Level Pricing |
Spring 2023 EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Zara Nip and Barrett Pettine | Kevin Young | Elite Groups and Educational Background |
| Eric Trueswell | Lee Badgett | Quantifying LGBT+ Workforce Inclusion |
| Shreeya Gurav | Hendrik Van den Berg | Uncovering the Dialectics of the Economic Crisis |
| Rudolph Zhong | Noe Wiener | Active Learning in Labor Economics Education |
| Aniket Patil | Noe Wiener | The First Great Migration - Labor Market Effects |
| Jacqueline Liu | Marta Vicarelli | Recovery, Renewal, and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World |
| Ishaan Sarna | Gregor Semieniuk | Private Equity Ownership of Oil and Gas Business |
| Saniya Jain | Gregor Semieniuk | Industrialization, Resource Demand and Environmental Impact |
Fall 2022 EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Riti Jain | Gregor Semieniuk | Oil and Gas Prices in a Time of High Energy Prices |
| Habiba Elfass | Juan-Camilo Cardenas | Can Game Based Platforms have more Pedagogical Impact? |
| Anabel Costa and Zachary Arneth | Daniele Girardi | The Effects of Exogenous Fiscal Expansions |
| Aastha Rajani, Sheerag Berejiklan, and Saarth Soparkar | Kevin Young | Network Analysis on World Elite Boards |
Spring 2022 EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Dylan Jacobs and Charles Dowdell | Daniele Girardi | Did Capital Strike? An Econometric Analysis of the Mitterand Government of 1980s France |
| Jacob Schiering | Gregor Semieniuk | Economic Implications of Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets |
| Sean McQuade | Kevin Young | What Determines the Strength of a Company's Response to the BLM Movement? |
| Nicholas Weiske | Noé Wiener | Worktime Reductions - Possibility and Applications |
| Yazeed Masri | Gregor Semieniuk | Unequal ecological exchange during the first wave of globalization |
| Dylan Partner | Itai Sher | Freedom, Paternalism, Equality, and Economic Thought |
| Anna Zerwas | Kevin Young | Nuke Industry Power and Diversity |
| Juan Mendoza | Arslan Razmi | The Links Between Macroeconomic Growth and Inequality of Opportunity |
| Zeppo Strauss | Douglas Cliggott | Did Cutting Taxes on the Rich Truly Help the Economy? |
Fall 2021 EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Calista Amoah | Gregor Semieniuk | Examining the Importance of Energy for Economic Growth |
| George Fox | Michael Ash | An Examination of Equitable Energy Transition |
| Andrew Zhu | Marta Vicarelli | Impact of Covid-19 on Massachusetts Households |
Spring 2021 EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Cooper Penniman | Douglas Cliggott | Financial Transaction Tax: A Way To Influence Retail Trading Behavior |
| Nathan Deychman | Douglas Cliggott | The Endowment Model of Portfolio Construction |
| Maral Asik | Gerald Friedman | Economic Development and Zoning in Amherst |
| Cecilia Chan | Gregor Semieniuk | Investment Risks and transition from high to low carbon sectors |
| Katie Chuang | Gregor Semieniuk | Energy and Economic Growth since the 1960s |
| Salvatore Viola | Ina Ganguli | Location Preferences and Migration of US Doctoral Students |
| Benjamin Hall | Isabella Weber | International Trade and Development |
| Tracy Blagden | Isabella Weber | How China Escaped Shock Therapy |
| Anay Contractor, Bryan Yang, Samuel Mayblyum | Kevin Young | Changing Connections of Global Elites |
| Isaac Gibbons | Lenore Palladino | The Political Economy of Corporations |
| Jordan Stewart | Lynda Pickbourn | Aid Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Water and Sanitation |
| Anna Gishin | Marta Vicarelli | The Impacts of Covid 19 and Its Socio-Economic Fallout in Massachusetts Municipalities |
Fall 2020 EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Sophia Chan, Morgan Dipilla and Anmol Makhija | Daniele Girardi | Firm Value and Business Investment During the French Socialist Experiment |
| Alex Smith | Gregor Semieniuk | National Accounting Revisions on GDP Estimates |
| Aishwarya Rajapur | Isabella Weber | Economic Sovereignty in the Past Two Eras of Globalization |
| Cole Lojek | Kevin Young | Global Elites and Their Networks |
| Ajay Dawani | Marta Vicarelli | Challenges and Benefits of Community Choice Aggregation Programs, MA |
| Yu Ya Htut Tin | Marta Vicarelli | Socioeconomic Impacts of Covid-19 on US Households |
| George Fox | Noé Wiener | Global Inequality of Opportunity |
Spring 2020 EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Aseem Prabhakar | Hendrik Van Den Berg | Examining different schools of economic thought to address present economic issues: Minimum Wage |
| Britney Bourassa | Lenore Paladino | Growth of the Asset Manager Industry |
| Ian Dinnie | Douglas Cliggott | Income Inequality amongst Races in America |
| John Stevenson | Marta Vicarelli | Challenges and Benefits of Community Choice Aggregation Programs, MA |
| Maya McCollum | Isabella Weber | What Drives Specialization? A Century of Global Export Patterns |
| Nicholas Bucchianeri | Daniele Girardi | The Mitterrand Project: The Firm-Level Reaction to the 1981-83 French Socialist Experiment |
| Reilly Lee | Katherine Moos | Federal Funding for Abortion Access: A Comparative Analysis |
| Samantha Blaney Cuevas | Ina Ganguli | Data Analysis Article from Chinese Universities |
| Saul Bezner | Gerald Friedman | Health Economics and Medicare for All |
| Sophia Chan | Daniele Girardi | The Mitterrand Project: The Firm-Level Reaction to the 1981-83 French Socialist Experiment |
| Sophia Chryssanthacopoulos | Daniele Girardi | The Mitterrand Project: The Firm-Level Reaction to the 1981-83 French Socialist Experiment |
| Zachary Ettridge | Marta Vicarelli | Challenges and Benefits of Community Choice Aggregation Programs, MA |
| Nihal Warawdekar | Marta Vicarelli | |
| Vikram Sablani | Ina Ganguli | Training for Success? Training Centers and Indian Engineering Entrance Exams |