HPA Majors + Prehealth Information: ECO, HIS, POL, SPIA (google slides)
"An ode to econ: the best major for a would-be MD" - from the KevinMD.com blog
Undergraduate Announcement
Read more in the Undergraduate Announcement
ECO Department Website
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Independent work guide
Learn more about junior independent work and the senior thesis.
Sample ECO theses written by prehealth students
- Do Neonatal Intensive Care Units Save Lives? Longitudinal Evidence from United States Counties, 1976-2013
- The Effect of Payment Reductions on Medicare Advantage Plan Supplemental Benefits: Insights from the Affordable Care Act
- Examining Disparities in Mental Health Care and Access Among Black and White Americans
- The First Three Years: Effects of Early Life Child Care on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Human Capital
- Jackknife Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Effects of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in the Treatment of Metastatic Brain Tumors
- Not So Sweet: The Effect of Food Insecurity on Adult Diabetes Risk
- Pills, Policy, Providers: Analyzing The Impacts Of State-level ACA Medicaid Expansions On County-level Opioid Prescribing Rates
- Understanding the Conflicting Effects Of Business Cycles on Influenza Vaccines and Severity