Annual Report of Awards to NBER Affiliates

• John M. Abowd was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recognizing his contributions to the statistical understanding of US population dynamics.
• Katharine Abraham was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was also named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.
• Viral Acharya won the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) Top Article Award 2020 for his paper “Whatever It Takes: The Real Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy” with Tim Eisert, Christian Eufinger, and Christian Hirsch.
• Eric Budish won the Western Finance Association Two Sigma Award for the Best Paper on Investment Management for his paper “Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading ‘Arms Race’: A Simple New Methodology and Estimates” with Matteo Aquilina and Peter O’Neill.
• David Autor won the 25th Anniversary Special Recognition John Heinz Award.
• Christiane Baumeister and James D. Hamilton received the inaugural Journal of Monetary Economics Best Paper Award for “Inference in Structural Vector Autoregressions When the Identifying Assumptions Are Not Fully Believed.”
• Ernst R. Berndt received the 2020 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics from the Business and Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, the National Association for Business Economics, and the Washington Statistical Society.
• Steven Berry, James Levinsohn, and Ariel Pakes were named Citation Laureates of the Web of Science for their paper, “Automobiles in Market Equilibrium.”
• Sandra Black was elected to the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association.
• Nicholas Bloom was elected as a CES Distinguished Fellow.
• Marcus Brunnermeier was awarded the 2020 Gustav Stolper Prize and was elected Vice President of the American Finance Association.
• David Card and Philip Oreopoulos won the 2020 Doug Purvis Memorial Prize from the Canadian Economics Association for coediting the Journal of Labor Economics special issue on “Small Differences II: Public Policies in Canada and the United States.”
• Anne Case was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
• Kerwin Kofi Charles was elected Vice President of the American Economic Association.
• Gabriel Chodorow-Reich was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
• Tatyana Deryugina, Garth Heutel, Nolan H. Miller, David Molitor, and Julian Reif received the 28th Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association for the Best Paper in Health Economics.
• Thomas Dee, Emily Penner, and Bill Sanderson received the 2020 Community Outcomes and Impact Award from the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement.
• Francis X. Diebold won the 2020 Richard Stone Prize in Applied Econometrics for his paper “Estimating Global Bank Network Connectedness” with Mert Demirer, Laura Liu, and Kamil Yilmaz.
• Marisa Domino, Edward C. Norton, Jangho Yoon, Gary Cuddeback, and Joe Morrissey won the Willard Manning Award in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research for their paper “Putting Providers at Risk through Capitation or Shared Savings.”
• Dave Donaldson was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Susan Dynarski received a Carnegie Fellowship, honoring high-caliber scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences on important, enduring issues confronting society.
• Amy Finkelstein was named a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and received a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health.
• Jordi Galí was named a Foreign Honorary Member by the American Economic Association and received the Saint George’s Cross from the Government of Catalonia.
• Claudia Goldin received the 2020 Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics from Northwestern University.
• Michela Giorcelli won the 2020 Kiel Institute for the World Economy Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs recognizing “the brightest young researchers in global economic affairs.”
• Jonathan Gruber received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
• Jonathan Gruber was awarded the Emergent Venture Prize for his paper “Adaptive Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks in India: Local, Gradual, and Trigger-based Exit Paths from Lockdown” with Anish Agarwal, Abdullas Alomar, Sam Asher, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, David Kaiser, Clement Imbert, Anup Malani, Paul Novosad, Stuti Sachdeva, Arnab Sarker, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen, Satej Soman, and Vaidehi Tandel.
• John Haltiwanger received the 2020 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research for “advancing our understanding of job creation and destruction, productivity growth and the role of small businesses.”
• David Hirshleifer was elected a Fellow of the American Finance Association.
• Sabrina T. Howell received the AQR Asset Management Institute Young Researcher Award, the Review of Financial Studies Referee of the Year Award, and the Review of Finance Distinguished Referee Award.
• Kirabo Jackson received the biennial David N. Kershaw Award and Prize, recognizing professionals under the age of 40 who have made distinguished contributions to the field of public policy.
• Rucker Johnson was inducted into the National Academy of Education in recognition of his contributions to research on education equity.
• Damon Jones, David Molitor, and Julian Reif received the National Institute for Health Care Management’s annual Health Care Research Award for their paper “What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study.”
• Loukas Karabarbounis was awarded the Germán Bernácer Prize, recognizing the best European economist under age 40 in macroeconomics and finance, for “research on the interaction between labor and capital market imperfections and macroeconomic outcomes.”
• Leonid Kogan received the 2020 Western Finance Association NASDAQ Award for the best paper on asset pricing for his paper “Common Fund Flows: Flow Hedging and Factor Pricing” with Winston Wei Dou and Wei Wu.
• Ralph Koijen and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh won the TIAA Institute Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security for their paper “Combining Life and Health Insurance.”
• The late Edward Lazear was honored by the Society of Labor Economists, which created the annual Edward P. Lazear Prize to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions in the field of labor economics, devoted a portion of their careers to the benefit of civil society, and actively helped to shape public policy.
• W. Bentley MacLeod was elected incoming president of the American Law and Economics Association.
• Matteo Maggiori received the 2020 Fischer Black Prize, awarded biennially to an outstanding financial economist under age 40 by the American Finance Association.
• Matteo Maggiori, Brent Neiman, and Jesse Schreger received the 2020 Central Banking Award in Economics for their Global Capital Allocation Project.
• Anup Malani was awarded the Emergent Venture Prize for a series of COVID prevalence and seroprevalence studies in India.
• Edward Miguel was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts of Sciences.
• Emi Nakamura was elected to the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association.
• Nathan Nunn received the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management.
• Guillermo L. Ordoñez won the Western Finance Association Elsevier Sponsored Award for Best Paper on Financial Institutions for his paper “Interbank Networks in the Shadows of the Federal Reserve Act” with Haelim Anderson and Selman Erol.
• Lindsay Page received the 2020 American Educational Research Association Early Career Award for a distinguished program of cumulative educational research within the first decade after receiving a doctoral degree.
• Lubos Pastor and Robert Stambaugh won the 2020 Jacobs Levy Center Outstanding Paper Prize for their paper “Sustainable Investing in Equilibrium” with Lucian Taylor.
• Lubos Pastor won the BlackRock Research Award for the best paper at the 2020 Australasian Finance and Banking Conference for “Mutual Fund Performance and Flows during the COVID-19 Crisis” with Blair Vorsatz.
• Valerie Ramey was awarded the R.K. Cho Economics Prize from Yonsei University in South Korea.
• Dani Rodrik received the 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Medal from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, and the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.
• Christina Romer was selected as the President-elect of the American Economic Association (AEA).
• Nancy Rose was awarded the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award by the AEA’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession for furthering the status of women in the economics profession.
• Anya Samek received the 2020 Vernon L. Smith Ascending Scholar Prize from the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics.
• Hannes Schwandt was named one of Germany’s “Top 40 under 40” by Capital, a German monthly business magazine.
• Joseph Shapiro received the Energy Article of the Year Award from the American Energy Society for his paper “The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy.”
• Kelly Shue received the Western Finance Association WRDS Best Paper Award for her paper “The Gender Gap in Housing Returns” with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham.
• Clemens Sialm was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Economics by the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
• David Slusky received the Otto Eckstein Prize, recognizing the best article published in the Eastern Economic Journal in the 2017–18 period.
• Stefanie Stantcheva was awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize, recognizing outstanding research contributions, by the AEA’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
• Chad Syverson was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
• Laura Veldkamp was named an honorary fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.
• Annette Vissing-Jorgensen received the Skandia Award from the Thule Foundation in Sweden for outstanding research on long-term savings with relevance for banking, insurance, and financial services.
• Heidi Williams was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
• Owen Zidar was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.

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