The 2022-23 ECON LAB @ RC is researching a wide range of topics including duck stamps and strategies that emerge with new rules in women’s lacrosse. We hosted two mini-conferences in which the students shared their work.
Meet the 2022-23 team.

Raquel Dominguez
Hometown:
Major: Economics, Minor: Spanish
Topic: Duck Stamps (fall), Markets for vegan foods (spring)

Lilly Blair
Hometown: Salem, VA
Major: Economics, Math, Actuarial Science
Topic: How new rules impact strategy in women’s lacrosse

Will Marston
Hometown:
Major: Economics, Concentration: Finance
Topic: NIL at the University of Virginia

Katherine Vaughan
Hometown: Salem, VA
Major: Business Administration
Topic: Optimal way to board a plane

Ethan Stevenson
Hometown: Apex, NC
Major: Economics and Political Science, Concentration: Finance
Topic: Statistics and Catan

Nick Young
Hometown:
Major: Economics
Topic: Profits and performance in the NFL (fall), Strategy in wrestling (spring)

Peter Simani
Hometown:
Major: Economics
Topic: Negative externalities of the true crime genre (fall), Effectiveness of group work (spring)

Dr. Alice Louise Kassens
John S. Shannon Professor of Economics, Advisor for The ECON LAB, and Director of the Center for Economic Freedom