EconHack

EconHack is an annual policy hackathon I organize at Pace University, co-hosted with the Economics Society and Women in Economics. Student teams are given a live policy problem, a set of data sources, and roughly a day to design an evidence-based intervention, which they present to a panel of faculty judges.

Each year’s problem, data sources, and winning presentations are archived below.

• 2026 — Topic Reviving the Third Space · 6th Annual · October 22 & 23, 2026
• 2025 — Food Insecurity in New York City · 5th Annual
• 2024 — NYC Migrant Crisis · 4th Annual
• 2024 — Affordable Housing in NYC · 3rd Annual
• 2023 — Mass Shootings in America · 2nd Annual
• 2022 — Uber vs. NYC Taxi · 1st Annual