John Bates Clark Medal

The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge".[1] According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, it "is widely regarded as one of the field’s most prestigious awards...second only to the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences."[2] The award was made biennially until 2007, but from 2009 is now awarded every year because many deserving went unawarded.[3] The committee cited economists such as Edward Glaeser and John A. List in campaigning that the award should be annual. The award is named after the American economist John Bates Clark (1847–1938). Following an average wait of 22 years, approximately 30% of past Medal winners have gone on to win the Nobel, presented annually since 1969 at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm. Moreover, 11 of the first 17 awardees (approximately 65%) went on to win the Nobel.

Although the Clark medal is billed as a prize for "American" economists, it is sufficient that the candidates work in the US at the time of the award; US nationality is not necessary to be considered. Indeed, past winners such as Daron Acemoglu, Emmanuel Saez, and Esther Duflo were born in Turkey, Spain, and France, respectively.

Past recipients

Twelve Clark Medal winners have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.

Year Medalists[4] Current Institution Nationality
1947 Paul A. Samuelson Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
1949 Kenneth E. Boulding University of Michigan United States
1951 Milton Friedman University of Chicago United States
1953 No award
1955 James Tobin Yale University United States
1957 Kenneth J. Arrow Stanford University United States
1959 Lawrence R. Klein University of Pennsylvania United States
1961 Robert M. Solow Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
1963 Hendrik S. Houthakker Harvard University Netherlands
1965 Zvi Griliches University of Chicago Israel
1967 Gary S. Becker University of Chicago United States
1969 Marc Leon Nerlove Yale University United States
1971 Dale W. Jorgenson Harvard University United States
1973 Franklin M. Fisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
1975 Daniel McFadden University of California, Berkeley United States
1977 Martin S. Feldstein Harvard University United States
1979 Joseph E. Stiglitz Oxford University United States
1981 A. Michael Spence Harvard University United States
1983 James J. Heckman University of Chicago United States
1985 Jerry A. Hausman Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
1987 Sanford J. Grossman Princeton University United States
1989 David M. Kreps Stanford University United States
1991 Paul R. Krugman Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
1993 Lawrence H. Summers World Bank United States
1995 David Card Princeton University Canada
1997 Kevin M. Murphy University of Chicago United States
1999 Andrei Shleifer Harvard University United States
2001 Matthew Rabin University of California, Berkeley United States
2003 Steven Levitt University of Chicago United States
2005 Daron Acemoğlu Massachusetts Institute of Technology Turkey, United States
2007 Susan C. Athey Stanford University United States
2009 Emmanuel Saez University of California, Berkeley France
2010 Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology France
2011 Jonathan Levin Stanford University United States
2012 Amy Finkelstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
2013 Raj Chetty Stanford University United States
2014 Matthew Gentzkow Stanford University United States
2015 Roland G. Fryer, Jr. Harvard University United States
2016 Yuliy Sannikov Stanford University Ukraine
2017 David Donaldson[5] Stanford University Canada

See also

References

  1. ↑ John Bates Clark Medal Archived 2008-05-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ The Chronicle of Higher Education
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ "American Economic Association". www.aeaweb.org.
  5. ↑ see New York Times April 14, 2017
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