Peyton Rameas is a second-year student in the PhD Program in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt Law School. She is originally from North Carolina, where she graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina Wilmington with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Statistics in 2022. In addition to her undergraduate work, she completed her Master of Science in Accountancy at her alma mater the following year. As a second-year, Peyton is interested in building a sturdy foundation for her future law and economics research.

Education:
M.S., Accountancy, University of North Carolina (Wilmington), 2023
B.S., Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina (Wilmington), 2022

Work Experience:

• Graduate Assistant (Aug. 2022-May 2023) for the Economics & Finance Department in the Cameron School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington
• Research Assistant (June 2024-Aug. 2024) for Professor Paige Skiba
  • Currently, I am working with Professor Skiba on her paper, “Regulation on the Margin: Evidence from Online Payday Lending.” I am researching payday loan regulations at both the state and federal levels in hopes to contribute more information to the introduction section of the paper.

Presentations:

• Capstone Project: How Disease Outbreaks Influence Labor Market Models in America
  • We examined the relationship between state regulations after the COVID-19 pandemic and state unemployment rates for Tennessee and Massachusetts by exploiting a differential equations simulation.
• Honors Thesis: A Statistical Analysis of Employee Benefits and Incentives in America
  • I designed and distributed a survey that targeted working class Americans to determine which employee benefits are most desirable. I leveraged these results to argue that American businesses should invest in the most desirable benefits to better accumulate human capital and increase productivity.

Awards:

• Adrian D. Hurst Award for Scholastic Achievements in Mathematics – 2021
• Adrian D. Hurst Award for Scholastic Achievements in Mathematics – 2022
• Barbara Pridgen English Memorial Award for Scholastic Achievement in the Mathematical Sciences – 2022