Awards

Every year the Economics department recognizes outstanding students in the Ph.D. program with The Second Year Paper and Teaching Assistant Awards.  Please see below for previous recipients. 

Second Year Paper Award

Description
The Second-Year Paper Award is given annually to the Ph.D. student who writes the most outstanding second-year paper. Recipients are nominated and selected by the faculty. This award is supported by the Professor Bruce D. Smith Memorial Graduate Fund.

YEAR	RECIPIENT	THESIS
2022	Gordon Ji	“Spatial Heterogeneous Consumers: The Welfare Effect of UberPool”
2021	Maximilian Nohr	“The Effect of Wildfire Smoke on Mortality: Evidence from Mexico”
2021	Margarita Petrusevich	“The Effects of Alcohol Sale Bans on Children: The Case of Russia”
2020	Ha Thu Bui	“Income Inequality and Variety Inequality”
2020	Richard Faltings	"Squeezing More Juice out of Lime: Pricing Inefficiencies in Dockless Vehicle Markets"
2020	Jinyeong Son	"Do Mandated Health Insurance Benefits for Diabetes Save Lives?"
2019	Changseok Ma	“Early Financing and Transition of Monetary Policy”
2018	Seth Neller	“Do Medicare Payments Affect Medical Practice Structure?”
2017	Mark Whitmeyer	“Relative Performance Concerns Among Investment Managers”
2016	Julian Ludwig	“News Shocks and Uncertainty”
2015	Neil White	“Worker Flows and Monetary Policy Shocks”
2014	Sungwon Lee	"Identification of Treatment Effects and Their Distribution under Stochastic Dominance"
2014	Carlos Herrera	"Unitization: Is It Always Worth the Hassle?"
2013	Nicholas Buchholz	"Price Regulation and Location Choice in the Taxi Industry"
2013	Hassan Afrouzi	"Collusion and Cyclicality of Markups"
2012	Sunjoo Hwang	“Government Bailouts, Time-Inconsistency and Managerial Punishments”
2012	Can Cui	"The Effects of Maternity Leave on Mothers’ Health and Labor Market Outcomes"
2011	Benjamin Sperisen	"Bad Car Mechanic Reputation with Multiple Customers"
2011	George Shoukry (HM)	“Designing Safe Mechanisms: Safe Equilibria and Implementation”
2010	Brett Hollenbeck	"Negative Equity, Labor Mobility and Unemployment"
2009	Oliver Roeder	“A Model of Political Campaign Competition”
2008	Martin Dumav	"Health-related Income Uncertainty and Gains from Medical Advancements"
2008	Maryam Farboodi	"On the Optimal Auctioneer and Advertiser Strategies in Position Auctions"

Teaching Assistant (TA) Award

Description
The Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award is given annually to two Ph.D. students.  Recipients are nominated and selected by the faculty.

YEAR	RECIPIENT
2022	Sadhika Bagga, Hande Celebi, Prankur Gupta, Zigin He, Lauri Kytömaa, Zhengaho Li, Zhenning Zhao
2021	Zijing He and Lauri Kytömma
2020	Sam Arenberg, Ivan Larsen, and Shaofei Jiang
2019	Seth Neller, Chi Zhang
2018	Jessie Coe, Julian Ludwig
2017	Jessica Fears, Peter Toth
2016	Austin Bean, Neil White