Dear NBER Family, Board, and Staff Members -
I hope that you will join me in congratulating several NBER
researchers who today were honored by the American Economic Association.
Raj Chetty has been named this year's winner of the John Bates
Clark Medal. The prize citation highlights Raj's wide-ranging
contributions in public economics and the economics of education. It
calls attention to his work on the role of tax salience as well as
various types of adjustment costs in affecting behavioral responses to
taxation, and to his research using rich administrative record databases
to estimate key parameters that bear on the design of social insurance
and education programs. Raj is a Professor of Economics at Harvard and
one of the co-directors of the NBER's Public Economics Program. He is
also a member of the Aging and Economic Fluctuations and Growth (EFG)
programs.
The AEA also named three distinguished fellows with long NBER ties:
Stanley Fischer is currently on leave from his Research Associate
position in the EFG and Monetary Economics programs while serving as the
Governor of the Bank of Israel;
Jerry Hausman, the John and Jennie MacDonald Professor of Economics
at MIT, is a Research Associate in four programs: Aging, Labor Studies,
Productivity Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Public Economics; and
Paul Joskow is the President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and
the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management
Emeritus at MIT. Before taking up his current role, he served as a
Research Associate for two decades in the Industrial Organization program.
All best wishes.
Jim
Received on Fri Apr 12 2013 - 15:48:01 EDT
