CSWEP: Awards and Prizes
Anna Mikusheva, the Castle-Krob Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the recipient of the 2012 Elaine Bennett Research Prize. The Elaine Bennett Research Prize was established in 1998 to recognize and honor outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman at the beginning of her career. Professor Mikusheva is recognized for her important contributions to econometric theory. Her research, which combines a powerful command of econometric theory with a keen interest in developing tools that will be useful for tackling problems in applied econometric practice, has advanced econometric inference in time series and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. Click here for the full announcement.
The recipient of the 2012 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award is Catherine C. Eckel, the Sara and John Lindsey Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. The Award was created in 1998 to recognize an individual who has further the status of women in the economics profession. Professor Eckel has been a leader in experimental economics has for several decades. Known as a tireless advocate for the careers of women economists and is described as "tenacious" in her commitment to mentoring the next generation of female economists. Click here for the full announcement.
The Elaine Bennett Research Prize
The Elaine Bennett Research Prize is awarded every other year to recognize, support, and encourage outstanding contributions by young women in the economics profession. The next award will be presented in January 2015.
The prize is made possible by contributions from William Zame and others, in memory of Elaine Bennett, who made significant contributions in economic theory and experimental economics and encouraged the work of young women in all areas of economics.
Nominees should be at the beginning of their career and be within seven years of completing their dissertation, but have demonstrated exemplary research contributions in their field. Nominations should contain the candidate’s CV, relevant publications, a letter of nomination and two supporting letters. The letters of the nomination and supporting letters should describe the candidate’s research and its significance. Nominations will be judged by a committee appointed by CSWEP.
CSWEP represents women’s points of views in the committee work of the American Economic Association (AEA), monitors the progress of women within the profession, and makes an annual report to the AEA on the status of women in economics. CSWEP associates are women and men in diverse professional environments – academia, government and business.
Inquiries and nominations may be sent to:
Marjorie McElroy, CSWEP Chair
Duke University
Department of Economics
219A Social Sciences
Campus Box 90097
Durham, NC 27708-0097
(919) 660-1840
FAX: (919) 684-8974
cswep@econ.duke.edu
The next nomination deadline is September 20, 2014
Past recipients of this prize are:
- 2012 Anna Mikusheva (announcement) (photo)
- 2010 Erica Field (announcement) (photo) (interview)
- 2008 Amy N. Finkelstein (announcement) (photo) (2009 interview)
- 2006 Monika Piazzesi (announcement) (photo)
- 2004 Marianne Bertrand (2006 interview) (photo)
- 2002 Esther Duflo (announcement) (photos) (2004 interview)
- 2000 Susan Athey (interview) (photo)
- 1998 Judith Chevalier (photo) (Winter 1999) (2001 interview)
The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award
The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award was created in January 1998 as part of the 25th Anniversary celebration of the founding of CSWEP. Carolyn Shaw Bell, the Katharine Coman Chair Professor Emerita of Wellesley College, was the first Chair of CSWEP. (To read a short biography of Carolyn Shaw Bell, see our Winter 2005 Newsletter.) The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award (“Bell Award”) is given annually to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession, through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or mentoring others. All nominations should include a nomination letter, updated CV and two or more supporting letters, preferably at least one from a mentee.
Inquiries and nominations may be sent to:
Marjorie McElroy, CSWEP Chair
Duke University
Department of Economics
219A Social Sciences
Campus Box 90097
Durham, NC 27708-0097
(919) 660-1840
FAX: (919) 684-8974
cswep@econ.duke.edu
The next nomination deadline is September 20, 2013
Past recipients of this prize are:
- 2012 Catherine C. Eckel (announcement) (photo)
- 2011 Sharon Oster (announcement) (photo)
- 2010 Elizabeth Hoffman (announcement) (photo) (interview)
- 2009 Elizabeth E. Bailey (announcement) (photo) (2010 interview)
- 2008 Anne Carter (announcement) (photo) (2009 interview)
- 2007 Olivia S. Mitchell (announcement) (photo) (2008 interview)
- 2006 Barbara Fraumeni (announcement) (photo) (2007 interview)
- 2005 Claudia Goldin (announcement) (photo) (2006 interview)
- 2004 Barbara Bergmann (announcement) (photo) (2005 interview)
- 2003 Robin L. Bartlett (announcement) (photos) (2004 interview)
- 2002 Margaret Garritsen de Vries (announcement) (photos) (2003 interview)
- 2001 Francine Blau (announcement) (photo) (2002 interview)
- 2001 Marianne Ferber (announcement) (photo) (2002 interview)
- 2000 Eva Mueller (photo) (interview)
- 1999 Sandra Ohrn Moose (photo) (interview)
- 1998 Alice M. Rivlin (photo) (Winter 1999) (1998 interview )
Margaret deVries Memorial Fund
Margaret deVries’ dedication to mentoring women in the economics profession is remembered through the Margaret deVries Memorial Fund. The Fund was set up in 2010 with donations from family and friends. Each year the Fund will be used to pay the registration fee for doctoral students whose papers have been selected for presentation for the CSWEP sponsored sessions at the AEA Annual Meeting, to attend the Annual Meeting. If you would like to read the full obituary for Margaret deVries, please refer to our Winter 2010 Newsletter on our Newsletters page.
Margaret deVries Memorial Fund recipients:
2010: Carolina Castilla for the 2011 AEA Annual Meeting in Denver and her paper, Intra-household Bargaining under Asymmetric Information: Modeling Income Hiding within the Household in the Gender and the Economics of the Household and Family CSWEP sponsored session.