Honors Prize and Award Winners
| Author | Award | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hirshman, Gregory | Anna Laura Myers Prize for an Outstanding Thesis | Raising Taxes to Balance the Budget: How Effects on Output and Labor Supply Complicate the Matter |
| Joshi, Nikhil | Anna Laura Myers Prize for an Outstanding Thesis | The Market for Talent: Are Top Draft Picks Overpaid? |
| Kang, Christine | John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking | Directors' and Officers' Insurance: Ordinary Corporate Expense or Valuable Signaling Device? |
| Lee, Stephanie | Stanford University Firestone Medal | Compulsory Licensing and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act after World War II |
| Xiao, Elizabeth | Stanford University Presentation Award | The Effect of Health Insurance on Health Care Spending in Young Adults |
| Author | Award | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Beck, Andrew | Stanford University Presentation Award | Does Childhood Prefrontal Cortex Volume Vary with Socioeconomic Status? |
| Bruno, William | John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking | Random Acts of Representative Democracy in the Orissa Panchayati Raj |
| Georgoudis, Paris | Stanford University Presentation Award | Estimation and Prediction of Financial Contagion through Trade |
| Hudson, Sally | Stanford University Firestone Medal | The Effects of Performance-Based Teacher Pay on Student Achievement |
| Hyde, Timothy Addams | Anna Laura Myers Prize for an Outstanding Thesis | A Righteous Collusion: The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Civil Rights Act |
| Tu, Peter | Stanford University Firestone Medal | Winner's Curse and the Competitive Effect: Measuring Competition in the Viatical Settlement Market |
| Vacek, Tomas | Anna Laura Myers Prize for an Outstanding Thesis | Empirical Explanation of Covered Interest Parity Deviations During Financial Crises |
| Author | Award | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Goh, Wendi | John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking | Is Enrollment into Graduate School Affected by the Business Cycle? |
| Jenkins, Stuart Takiar | John G. Sobieski Award for Creative Thinking | Organization Culture and Student Performance in California Charter Schools |
| Miller, Conrad | Stanford University Firestone Medal | Teacher Sorting and Own-Race Teacher Effects in Elementary School |
| Popov, Igor | Stanford University Firestone Medal | Default Options and Non-Standard 401(k) Choice |
| Shao, Ling | Anna Laura Myers Prize for an Outstanding Thesis | The Financial Aid Tax and Student Work Incentives |
| Author | Award | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Easterbrook, Kathleen F. | Stanford University Presentation Award | Flat Taxes and Labor Supply in Central and Eastern Europe |
| Pashelinsky, Jacob | Stanford University Presentation Award | Has liquefied natural gas infrastructure development brought about integration between the major global markets for natural gas? |
| Takapong, Saranwut | Stanford University Firestone Metal | The “Common Lender Effect”: Are Banking Centers Crisis Carriers? |