Annual Report of Awards to NBER Affiliates, Spring 2026

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Eric Budish, Cécile Gaubert, Bryan S. Graham, Nathaniel Hendren, Anil K. Kashyap, Edward Miguel, David Romer, and Francesco Trebbi were elected fellows of the Econometric Society.

Ran Abramitzky received an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark.

Nikhil Agarwal received the 2025 Infosys Science Foundation Prize.

Lee J. Alston received the 2025 Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History from the Economic History Association.

Marcella Alsan was named to the 2025 STATUS List by STAT and received the Excellence in Research & Innovation Award from the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine.

Marcella Alsan and Heidi Williams, along with Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Josh Schwartzstein, received the 33rd Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics from the International Health Economics Association.

Marcella Alsan and Crystal Yang received the B. Jaye Anno Award for Excellence in Communication on Correctional Health Care from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care.

David Autor, Marianne Bertrand, Nicholas A. Bloom, Lawrence F. Katz, and Sendhil Mullainathan each received Clarivate Citation Award.

Adrien Auclert received the inaugural Janet Yellen Award for Monetary Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Katherine Baicker received the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration.

H. Spencer Banzhaf and Randall Walsh received the Publication of Enduring Quality Award from the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists for their 2008 American Economic Review paper "Do People Vote with their Feet?" 

Anirban Basu received the Health Economics and Outcomes Research - Application Award from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research.

Olivier Blanchard, Jordi Galí, and Michael Woodford received the 17th Frontiers of Knowledge Award: Economics, Finance and Business Management from the BBVA Foundation.

Corina Boar, Lian Chen, Matthew Rognlie, Yotam Shem-Tov, Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Emil Verner, and Christian K. Wolf received Sloan Research Fellowships.

Axel H. Börsch-Supan received an honorary doctorate in Health Sciences from the University of Eastern Finland.

Giulia Brancaccio received the Carlo Alberto Medal from Collegio Carlo Alberto for exceptional research in the field of economics.

Zach Brown and Alexander MacKay received an American Economic Journal:Microeconomics best paper award for "Competition in Pricing Algorithms".

Markus Brunnermeier, Kristian Blickle and Stephan Luck received the Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award from the Society for Financial Studies for “Who can Tell Which Banks will Fail?".

Eric Budish, Andrew Lewis-Pye and Tim Roughgarden received a Best Theoretical Research Paper Award from the ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security for "The Economic Limits of Permissionless Consensus".

Christopher Carpenter, Donn Feir, Casey Warman and Krishna Pendakur received the AEA CSQIEP Award for Outstanding Research Paper in LGBTQ+ Economics for their AER: Insights paper, "Nonbinary and Transgender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census." 

Anne Case and Angus Deaton received the Paul A. Volcker Lifetime Achievement Award for Economic Policy from the National Association for Business Economics. 

Taha Choukhmane, Cormac O'Dea, and Lucas Goodman received the 2025 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for outstanding scholarly writing on lifelong financial security for their paper “Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from Retirement Saving of US Couples.”

Lauren Cohen, David Kim and Eric So received a Best Paper Prize from the Eastern Finance Association Meetings.  Cohen, with Umit Gurun and Bugra Ozel, also received the 28th Annual Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics.

Janet Currie was named a Research Fellow of the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin - Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work.

Janet Currie, Barbara M. Fraumeni, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Timothy Taylor were named Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association.

Sabrina Di Addario, Patrick Kline, Raffaele Saggio, and Mikkel Sølvsten received the Aigner Award from the Journal of Econometrics for their paper "It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at: Hiring origins, firm heterogeneity, and wages".

Pascaline Dupas was named to Vox's "Future Perfect 25" list for “advancing solutions for the most pressing challenges in global health and development".

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga received the Maurice Allais Economics Prize for their paper "Urban Growth and its Aggregate Implications".

Janice Eberly was elected President of the American Economic Association. 

Andrea L. Eisfeldt was elected Vice President Elect of the Western Finance Association and Vice President of the American Finance Association.

Alex Able received the Khalifa International Award for Early Learning in the Best Research and Studies category. 

Joshua Gans was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Donna K. Ginther, John C. Haltiwanger, James D. Hamilton, Sergio Rebelo, and Catherine Wolfram were inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 

Donna K. Ginther received the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economic Association. She also received a Big 12 Faculty of the Year Award from the Big 12 Conference.

Edward Glaeser received the John Quigley Medal from the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Claudia Goldin received a Gold Medal Honor from the National Institute of Social Sciences, was elected an International Fellow of the British Academy, received the 2025 Woman of the Year Award from WE CAN, and received honorary doctorates from Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Pinelopi K. Goldberg was elected an International Fellow of the British Academy, received the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, and was honored with the A.SK Award from the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Robert J Gordon received an honorary doctorate from Sorbonne University.

Niels Joachim Gormsen, Kilian Huber, and Sangmin S. Oh received the FESE De La Vega Prize.

Joshua Gottlieb received the ASHEcon Medal from the American Society of Health Economists.

Wayne Gray and Rabia Manzoor received the Michael Szenberg Prize for the best article published in The American Economist for "Decomposition Analysis of Racial Income Inequality in the United States".

Shane Greenstein received the Distinguished Service Award from the Industrial Organization Society.

Atul Gupta, Elena Andreyeva, Catherine Ishitani, Malgorzata Sylwestrzak, and Benjamin Ukert received the 31st Annual National Institute of Healthcare Management research award for their paper "The Corporatization of Independent Hospitals".

Bronwyn H. Hall received the Extraordinary Achievement Award from the annual Patent Conference at the University of San Diego Law School.

Oliver Hart received an honorary doctorates from the University of Cambridge and Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.

Alex Hollingsworth, Krzysztof Karbownik, Melissa Thomasson, and Anthony Wray received a Quality of Research Discovery Award from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association for their American Economic Review paper "The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality." 

Harrison Hong received a Guggenheim Fellowship for research on adaptation to a changing climate.

Peter Howitt, NBER director Joel Mokyr, and Philippe Aghion shared the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences. 

Anton Korinek was named to the TIME100 AI list. 

Darius Lakdawalla was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Brigitte C. Madrian received the International Educator of the Year award from the Academy of International Business.

Nadya Malenko , Edwin Hu and Jonathon Zytnick received a John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award,  a Paul Van Arsdell Award in Corporate Finance from the Midwest Finance Association, and the Best Paper Award at The First Annual Corporate Governance Academic Forum at the University of Toronto for the paper "Custom Proxy Voting Advice."

Nadya Malenko, Robin Döttling, Doron Levit, and Magdalena Rola-Janicka received a John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award for "Voting on public goods: Citizens vs shareholders." 

Sara Markowitz was elected as president of the Southern Economic Association.

Olivia S. Mitchell was named a Distinguished Fellow of the School of Business Administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Jacob Moscona received an Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the Global Economy. 

John Mullahy and Edward Norton received the Willard G. Manning Memorial Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics from the American Society of Health Economists for their paper "Why transform Y? The pitfalls of transformed regressions with a mass at zero".

Maurice Obstfeld was elected president of the Western Economic Association International.

Bruno Pellegrino, Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg received the Federico Prades Award from the Spanish Banking Association for their paper "Barriers to Global Capital Allocation.” 

Dani Rodrik received honorary doctorates from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and from Poznań University of Economics and Business.

Juliana Salomao, Frederico Belo and Yao Deng were runners up for the Fama-DFA Best Paper Award for a capital markets and asset pricing paper in the Journal of Financial Economics.

José A. Scheinkman received the University of Rochester Distinguished Scholars Award. 

Elizabeth Setren received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the Department of Education.

Dan Sichel received the Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics.

César Sosa-Padilla and Javier Bianchi received the Premio ANCE Victor Elias award from the National Academy of Economic Sciences (Argentina) for their Review of Economic Studies paper "Reserve Accumulation, Macroeconomic Stabilization, and Sovereign Risk."

Stefanie Stantcheva received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association.

Daniel Trefler was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Economics Association.

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Sven Damen, and Matthijs Korevaar received best paper prizes at the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association National Meeting and at the European Real Estate Society Meeting, for "An Alpha in Affordable Housing".

Annette Vissing-Jorgensen received an honorary doctorate from Aarhus University.