Winners of the 16th Annual AFIT-AFEE Student Paper Competition

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 16th annual AFIT-AFEE Student Paper Competition.

Sam Levey

The Social Relations of Exchange Rate Risk

Sam Levey is a PhD student at the University of Missouri – Kansas City in Economics with a co-discipline in Public Administration, and a Research Fellow with the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. His research interests include monetary theory and the economics of war and mobilization.

Annesha Mukherjee & Satyaki Dasgupta

Assessing Quality of Life of Hindu and Muslim Households in Urban India

Annesha Mukherjee submitted her MPhil thesis last year at the Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India. She is presently a PhD research scholar of Economics at the same institute. Her interests lie in labour economics, gender economics, and economics of well-being.

Satyaki Dasgupta has a master's degree in Economics from Jadavpur University, and has submitted his MPhil thesis at Centre for Development Studies JNU, Kerala. His interests lie broadly in the domain of labour economics, and Marxian political economy. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Colorado State University.

Sayorn Chin

Conspicuous Consumption: Economic Impacts and Expenditure Tax

I am an applied microeconomist specializing in health economics, household economics, and development economics. My current research focuses on the causal pathways through which early inequalities of household resource allocation affect health and human capital outcomes over the life course of child development. My research areas include both developed and developing countries.
To me, I connect strongly with economics because of my own life experiences. It has inspired my exploration to use economics as a tool to conduct my critiques of economic policy in order to advance social changes.

Bhavya Sinha

Indian Capitalist Development: An Exploration of Labour Relations in Special Economic Zones

Bhavya Sinha is a doctoral student of economics at Colorado State University. She is from New Delhi, India, and she earned her MA in Economics from Ambedkar University Delhi. Her research interests are rooted in political economy, labour studies, and development economics.

Emily Hrovat

Globalization and Demographic Transition

Emily Hrovat is a Ph.D. student in economics at Colorado State University. She is from Cleveland, Ohio, and received her BA in Economics & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the College of Wooster. Her research focuses on the relationship between reproductive justice and labor supply and demand, on both a global and local scale.

Vishal Choudhury

Adam Smith in Beijing: The Market, the State and Society

Vishal Choudhury is currently enrolled in the PhD (Economics) program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). His research interests are History of Economic Thought, the political economy of India and China and development economics. Before pursuing his PhD at UMKC, he completed his M.A. in Development Economics from the South Asian University (SAARC) and then pursued his International Master’s in Public Administration from the Renmin University of China.