Elaine Bennett Research Prize

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The Elaine Bennett Research Prize, awarded every year by the American Economic Association, recognizes and honors outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman not more than ten years beyond her Ph.D. [1] [2] Prior to 2023 the award had been given every other year for a woman not more than seven years beyond her PhD. [3] [4] [5] First awarded in 1998, [6] [7] three of the first six winners of this prize have been the first three female winners of the John Bates Clark Medal.

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Past recipients

Year Medalists Institution at Time of Award Nationality Clark Medal
1998 Judith Chevalier University of Chicago United States
2000 Susan C. Athey Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 2007
2002 Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology French 2010
2004 Marianne Bertrand University of Chicago Belgian
2006 Monika Piazzesi University of Chicago German
2008 Amy Finkelstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 2012
2010 Erica Field Harvard University United States
2012 Anna Mikusheva Massachusetts Institute of Technology Russian
2014 Emi Nakamura Columbia University United States and Canadian 2019
2016 Marina Halac Columbia University and the University of Warwick Argentine
2018 Melissa Dell Harvard University United States 2020
2020 Stefanie Stantcheva Harvard University France
2022 Rebecca Diamond Stanford University United States
2023 Maya Rossin-Slater Stanford UniversityUnited States

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