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All graduate students at accredited U.S. and Canadian Institutions and individuals who will receive the doctoral degree or its equivalent after July 1, 2009, and before June 1, 2010, are eligible for the awards. The deadline for submission is June 30, 2010.
Dissertations (theoretical and applied) may be on any topic in the area of government finance, including taxation, debt and fiscal policy, public choice, expenditures, budgeting, administrative and management science applications, program analysis, and policy evaluation. Entries will be judged by a panel of experts on the basis of originality, clarity of exposition, and significance of the analysis for scholars and practitioners of government finance. The winner receives $2,000 and the opportunity to adapt the manuscript for publication in the National Tax Journal. Two honorable mention awards of $1,000 each may be given for other outstanding entries. The winners will be announced in September 2010. The awards will be presented at the 101st Annual Conference on Taxation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 20-22, 2008. Papers based on the dissertations are delivered at a special session - Frontiers of Public Finance - and are published in the Conference Proceedings. All submissions must be accompanied by an entry application, nomination form, and formal letter of nomination from the chair of the doctoral dissertation committee certifying the date of its acceptance and the specific qualities that warrant its nomination. These are available from the National Tax Association web site at http://www.ntanet.org, or contact NTA at natltax@aol.com or 202-737-3325. All correspondence regarding the awards, including entry and nomination forms, letters of nomination, and dissertations should be addressed to: National Tax Association 725 15th Street NW Suite 600 Washington DC 20005-2109 For further information, contact the National Tax Association at 202-737-3325 or natltax@aol.com. NTA Dissertation Awards Recipients| Year | Recipient | Institution |
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| 2009 | Jesse Edgerton | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | 2008 | James Sallee | University of Michigan | 2007 | David Albouy | University of California Berkeley | | 2006 | Arturo Ramirez Verdugo | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | 2005 | Monica Singhal | Harvard University | | 2004 | Joshua D. Rauh (Co-Winner) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | 2004 | Fernando V. Ferreira (Co-Winner) | University of California Berkeley | | 2003 | Nadarajan Chetty | Harvard University | | 2002 | Kevin S. Milligan | University of Toronto | | 2001 | Brian G. Knight | University of Wisconsin | | 2000 | Robert McMillan | Stanford University | | 1999 | Emmanuel Saez | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | 1998 | Dhammika Dharmapala | University of California Berkeley | | 1997 | George R. G. Clark | University of Rochester | | 1996 | Sheila E. Murray | University of Maryland | | 1996 | Leora Friedberg (Co-Winner) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | 1995 | Nada Eissa | Harvard University | | 1994 | Caroline Minter Hoxby | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | 1993 | Hilary A. Sigman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | 1992 | Eric M. Engen | University of Virginia | | 1991 | William M. Gentry | Princeton University | | 1990 | W. Thomas Bogart | Princeton University | | 1989 | Brian A. Cromwell | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | 1988 | Rosanne Altshuler | University of Pennsylvania | | 1987 | Serge Nadeau | Carnegie Mellon University | | 1986 | Andrew B. Lyon (Co-winner) | Princeton University | | 1986 | Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason(Co-winner) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | 1985 | Lawrence B. Lindsey | Harvard University | | 1984 | Mitchell A. Post | University of Wisconsin | | 1983 | David F. Merriman | University of Wisconsin | | 1982 | Robert S. Chirinko | Northwestern University | | 1982 | Lawrence H. Summers | Harvard University | | 1981 | Jane G. Gravelle | George Washington University | | 1980 | George R. Zodrow | Princeton University | | 1979 | Don Fullerton | University of California, Berkeley | | 1978 | Charles F. Revier | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | 1977 | Richard F. Dye | University of Michigan | | 1976 | Patrick D. Larkey | University of Michigan | | 1975 | John B. Burbidge | McGill University | | 1974 | Helen F. Ladd | Harvard University | | 1973 | John H. Bowman | Ohio State University | | 1972 | Daniel L. Rubinfeld | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | 1971 | Michael J. Boskin | University of California, Berkeley |
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