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 are encouraged to discuss the possibility of an assistantship with members of the faculty. The completed student application and the faculty application should be returned to the EURA program director.
Refer to Guidelines for Economics Undergraduate Research Assistants.
Deadline
Fall 2023: September 8, 2023
Spring 2023: February 5, 2024
Contact
The director of the EURA program is Noe Wiener, whose office is located in 222 Gordon Hall. Email eura@econs.umass.edu for additional information.
Links
Student Application
Faculty Application
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:
Recent EURA projects:
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | Faculty Sponsor | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Tiffany Duong | Hendrik Van Den Berg | Examining the Influence of Transnational Corporations on the Global Economy |
| Mark Ambrose | Douglas Cliggott | CEO Compensation and Inequality in Different Countries |
| Jeanai Celestin | Michael Ash | Analysis of Boston’s Home-Based School Assignment Program |
| Kyle Compton | Marta Vicarelli | The Economics of Ecosystem Services for Disaster Risk Reduction |
| Lindsey Camuso | Ina Ganguli | How Do Conferences Impact Scientific Careers? |
| Peter Murphy | James Heintz | Economic Policy and Human Rights: A Comparative Analysis of Healthcare in High-Income Countries) |
| Madeleine Werner | James Heintz | Spending on Healthcare and Education in the US |
| Henry Walsh | Léonce Ndikumana | Development Banking in Tanzania: Lesson from the Case of CRDB |
| Darby O’Connor | Lawrence King | Overmedication in the United States: Who’s to Blame? |
| Tiffany Duong | Gerald Friedman | Effects of the Single Payer Plan on the Healthcare Sector |
| James Jedras | Gerald Epstein | The Rise and Fall of Trump's P3 Plan |
| Ethan Moran | Douglas Cliggott | Capital Requirements: A Higher Equity Requirement for Banks Doesn't Mean Less Lending |
| Shane McCormack | Naoki Yoshihara | Unequal Exchange in International Trade |
| Noah Kouchekinia | Ina Ganguli | Matching Patent Interference Cases to the PATSTAT Database |
| Cobi Frongillo | Jim Boyce | How Should We Price Carbon? (Watch poster presentation) |
| Rebecca Eige & Stelliana Benson | Dania Francis | Where do Teachers Live? |
| Kenyon Kowalski | Michael Ash | Racial Disparities in Pollution Exposure and Employment at U.S. Industrial Facilities |
| Oluwatimilehin Iwayemi | Mwangi wa Githinji | The Role of Land Grabs in Food Security of the Gulf Cooperation Council |
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Katherine Gabriele, |
Michael Ash | Tracking key economic decision-makers in advanced economies, 1975-2015 |
| Mike Berner | Ina Ganguli | Impact of Patent Rights on Inventive Activity: Evidence from Patent Interferences |
| Nantia Boampong | Lisa Saunders | Education and Industry Wages in Metropolitan Area Detroit, Pre and Post-Recession (2000-2014) |
| Evelyn Brand | Marta Vicarelli | Impacts of Weather, Climatic Trends, and Climatic Extremes on Human Capital Development |
| David Chesire | Mwangi wa Githinji | Erasing Class/(Re)creating Ethnicity: Jobs, Politics, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya |
| Anya Conti | Diane Flaherty | Manufacturing and Employment in Latin and Central America |
| Stephanie Faecher | Léonce Ndikumana | Role of Multinational Corporations in the Zambian Extractive Sector |
| Robert Flanagan | Jim Boyce, Michael Ash | Air Quality Co-Benefits of CO2 Emission Reductions: Evidence from the U.S., 1990-2011 |
| Joshua Franklin | Dania Francis | Understanding the Role of Residency Requirements in Today's Cities |
| Lauren Humphreys | David Kotz | Analyzing the Causes of Stagnation of the U.S. Economy Since 2008 |
| Shannon Kelly | Michael Ash | Tracking Center-Left Parties of Advanced Economies: 1975-2015 |
| Ritika Kumar | Marta Murray-Close | Relationship Between Life Goals and Region of Origin of New Ph.D. Economists |
| Dhrithi Narasimhan | Ina Ganguli | Effects of the "Megagrant" Program for Science in Russia |
| Joseph Newton | Peter Spiegler | Did the States Pocket the Obama-Stimulus Money? Lessons from Cross-Section Regression and Interviews with State Officials |
| Taylor Smith | Michael Ash | Tracking Center-Left Parties of Advanced Economies: 1975-2015 |
| Robert Snow | Marta Murray-Close | Relationship Between Life Goals and Region of Origin of New Ph.D. Economists |
| Robert Snow | Léonce Ndikumana | The Origins and Impacts of Capital Flight from Nigeria's Oil Sector |
| Anna Watzker | Michael Ash | Tracking Center-Left Parties of Advanced Economies: 1975-2015 |
| Mitchell Williams | Jim Boyce | Swiss Carbon Emissions Policy |
| Yanyi Zheng | Lee Badgett | The Economic Cost of LGBT Exclusion: A Case Study in the Philippines |
