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Jonathan Deal (BSc) and Peng Fei Li (BSc Hons) are recipients of the Anonymous Prize in Economics for 2011-12. The prize is awarded to an Economics student or students, not in their last year, "who has (have) shown through an essay outstanding promise of successfully applying economics to the solution of human problems." Both Deal and Li were nominated by their Econometrics (Econ 3338) professor, Courtney Ward, for their papers entitled: "An Essay on the Effect of Changes in State-Level Tax Burden on the Rate of Larceny Theft" (Deal) and "Effects of the Minimum Wage on the Employment of Teenagers and Young Adults in Canada" (Li).