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Professor Claudia Goldin Receives the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics

October 20, 2020

Professor Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, has been awarded the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics.  The Nemmers Prize is awarded for "achievement and work of lasting significance in the field of economics. In particular, the prize recognizes major contributions to new knowledge or the development of significant new modes of analysis."  Professor Goldin received the award for her "groundbreaking insights into the history of the American economy, the evolution of gender roles and the interplay of technology, human capital and labor markets....

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Stefanie Stantcheva

Professor Stefanie Stantcheva Receives the Elaine Bennet Prize

October 20, 2020
Professor Stefanie Stantcheva, Professor of Economics, has been awarded by the American Economic Associations' Elaine Bennett Prize.  The prize is awarded annually by the AEA's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.  Professor Stantcheva has been honored based on her "remarkable contributions to our understanding of optimal taxation, the relationship between innovation and taxation, and social preferences about redistribution. "
Isaiah Andrews

Professor Isaiah Andrews Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship

October 7, 2020
Professor Isaiah Andrews is among the 2020 fellows selected for this year's MacArthur recipients.  Professor Andrews was honored for his work in "developing robust methods of statistical inference to address key challenges in economics and social science."
Amartya Sen

Professor Amartya Sen is Awarded the 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

September 22, 2020
Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, has been awarded the 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by the The German Publishers and Booksellers Association.  Professor Sen will accept the award on Sunday, October 18th, 2020.  Full release of the announcement is here.... Read more about Professor Amartya Sen is Awarded the 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

Professor Robin Lee is Awarded the 2020 Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society

August 17, 2020
Professor Robin Lee and his co-author, Professor Kate Ho, have just been announced as the winners of the 2020 Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society for their paper “Insurer Competition in Health Care Markets”.  The Frisch Medal is awarded biennially for the best applied paper published in Econometrica in the last five years.  Read more about Professor Robin Lee is Awarded the 2020 Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society
Emmanuel Farhi

In Memoriam: Emmanuel Farhi 1978-2020

July 24, 2020

The Economics Department has lost a young and brilliant economist in Emmanuel Farhi, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, who passed away on July 23rd, 2020.  He was a member of the Commission Economique de la Nation, the National Bureau for Economic Research, and the Center for Economic Policy Research. He was also a former member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique to the french prime minister. 

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