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The National Tax Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award was established in 1971 and recognizes exemplary dissertation research in government finance and taxation.
All graduate students at accredited U.S. and Canadian Institutions who will receive the doctoral degree or its equivalent after July 1, 2024, and before June 30, 2025, are eligible for the awards. Both theoretical and empirical dissertations are welcome, and may be on any topic in the area of government finance, including taxation, debt and fiscal policy, political economy, expenditures, budgeting, administrative and management science applications, program analysis, and policy evaluation.
Entries are 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. Two honorable mention awards of $1,000 each may be given for other outstanding entries.
The awards will be presented at the 118th Annual Conference on Taxation in Boston, Massachusetts, November 6 – 8, 2025. Papers based on the dissertations are featured at the Annual Conference.
The submission process requires two steps:
- The student must complete and submit the Outstanding Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Student Entry form.
- The chair of the dissertation committee must submit the Outstanding Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Chair Nomination form.
Submissions are now closed. The deadline to submit was June 20, 2025.
2025 Recipients
Winner
Javier Feinmann, Paris School of Economics
Honorable Mentions
Jordan Richmond, University of Maryland
Lucy Msall, National Bureau of Economic Research
Past Recipients
| 2024 |
Evan Soltas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2023 |
Ben Sprung-Keyser, Harvard University |
| 2022 | Valeria Zurla, Brown University Honorable mentions: Paul Kindsgrab, University of Michigan; Maggie Shi, Columbia University |
| 2021 | Augustin Bergeron, Harvard University Honorable mentions: Daniel G. Garrett, Duke University; Daniel Prinz, Harvard University |
| 2020 | Dario Tortarolo, University of California Honorable mentions: Amelia (Molly) Hawkins, University of Michigan; Francis Wong, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2019 | Cailin Slattery, University of Virginia, Honorable mention: Seok Min (Terry) Moon, Princeton University; Michael Stepner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2018 | David Schönholzer, University of California, Berkeley Honorable mention: Steven Hamilton, University of Michigan; Ann Arbor Benjamin Hyman, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania |
| 2017 | Jacob Bastian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michael Gilraine, University of Toronto Honorable mention: Adam LaVecchia, University of Toronto |
| 2016 | Benjamin Lockwood, Harvard University Honorable mention: Youssef Banzarti, University of California; Berkeley Daniel Reck, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 2015 | Itzik Fadlon, Harvard University Honorable mention: Patrick Button, University of California, Irvine |
| 2014 | Benjamin Marx, Columbia University |
| 2013 | Tatiana Homonoff, Princeton University Honorable mention: Ugo Troiano, Harvard University |
| 2012 | Joshua Gottlieb, Harvard University Honorable mention: Jongsang Park, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 2011 | Marika Cabral, Stanford University Honorable mentions: Neale Mahoney, Stanford University; Mark Phillips, University of Chicago |
| 2010 | Nirupama Rao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Honorable mention: Nicholas Turner, University of California, San Diego |
| 2009 | Jesse Edgerton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2008 | James Sallee, University of Michigan Honorable mention: Hui Shan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2007 | David Albouy, University of California, Berkeley Honorable mention: Garth Heutel, Georgia State University |
| 2006 | Arturo Ramirez Verdugo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Honorable mention: Francesca Mazzolari, University of California, San Diego |
| 2005 | Monica Singhal, Harvard University Honorable mentions: Leah Brooks, UCLA; Byron Lutz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2004 | Joshua D. Rauh (Co-winner), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fernando V. Ferreira (Co-winner), University of California, Berkeley Honorable mention: Peter Katuscak, University of Michigan |
| 2003 | Nadarajan Chetty, Harvard University Honorable mentions: Francisco Perez-Gonzalez, Harvard University; John Straub, Texas A&M |
| 2002 | Kevin S. Milligan, University of Toronto Honorable mentions: Mellisa Kearney, MIT Karen Pence, University of Wisconsin |
| 2001 | Brian G. Knight, University of Wisconsin Honorable mentions: Amy Finkelstein, MIT; Wojciech Kopczuk, University of Michigan |
| 2000 | Robert McMillan, Stanford University Honorable mentions: Patrick Bayer, Stanford University; Roberton Williams III, Stanford University |
| 1999 | Emmanuel Saez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Honorable mentions: Katherine Baicker, Harvard University; Marc Stabile, Columbia University |
| 1998 | Dhammika Dharmapala, University of California, Berkeley Honorable mentions: Julia Lynn Coronado, University of Texas; Austin Jeffey P. Guilfoyle, Michigan State University |
| 1997 | George R. G. Clark, University of Rochester Honorable mentions: Jeffrey Liebman, Harvard University; Todd Sinai, MIT |
| 1996 | Sheila E. Murray (Co-winner), University of Maryland Leora Friedberg (Co-winner), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Honorable mention: John Pepper, University of Wisconsin |
| 1995 | Nada Eissa, Harvard University Honorable mentions: Jason G. Cummins, Columbia University; Thomas C. Kinnaman, University of Virginia |
| 1994 | Caroline Minter Hoxby, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Honorable mentions: Thomas J. Nechyba, University of Rochester; W. Loren Williams, Georgia State University |
| 1993 | Hilary A. Sigman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Honorable mentions: David Hulse, Louisiana State University; James Ziliak, Indiana University |
| 1992 | Eric M. Engen, University of Virginia Honorable mentions: Edward Bird, University of Wisconsin; Miguel Gouveia, University of Rochester |
| 1991 | William M. Gentry, Princeton University Honorable mentions: Arup Banerji, University of Pennsylvania; Diane Lim Rogers, University of Virginia |
| 1990 | W. Thomas Bogart, Princeton University Honorable mentions: William Duncombe, Syracuse University; Robert Wassmer, Michigan State University |
| 1989 | Brian A. Cromwell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Honorable mentions: Mary Lovely, University of Michigan; Paul Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1988 | Rosanne Altshuler, University of Pennsylvania Honorable mentions: Joosung Jun, Harvard University; Gilbert Metcalf, Harvard University; John Karl Scholz, Stanford University |
| 1987 | Serge Nadeau, Carnegie Mellon University Honorable mentions: James Andreoni, University of Michigan; William Gale, Stanford University |
| 1986 | Andrew B. Lyon (Co-winner), Princeton University Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason (Co-winner), Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1985 | Lawrence B. Lindsey, Harvard University Honorable mention: A. Lans Bovenberg, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1984 | Mitchell A. Post, University of Wisconsin Honorable mentions: Charles Ballard, Stanford University; Jerald Schiff, University of Wisconsin |
| 1983 | David F. Merriman, University of Wisconsin Honorable mentions: Robert Hubbard, Harvard University; Marc Robinson, Stanford University |
| 1982 | Robert S. Chirinko (Co-winner), Northwestern University; Lawrence H. Summers (Co-winner), Harvard University Honorable mention: James R. Nunns, Purdue University |
| 1981 | Jane G. Gravelle, George Washington University Honorable mentions: Dan Crippen, Ohio State University; Thomas Neubig, University of Michigan |
| 1980 | George R. Zodrow, Princeton University Honorable mentions: Joel Slemrod, Harvard University; David Terkla, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1979 | Don Fullerton, University of California Honorable mention: Mike Johnson, University of North Carolina |
| 1978 | Charles F. Revier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Honorable mentions: David M. de Ferranti, Princeton University Michael Lea, University of North Carolina |
| 1977 | Richard F. Dye, University of Michigan Honorable mentions: Robert Durbin Norton, Princeton University; Robert Thomas Schneeweis, University of Iowa |
| 1976 | Patrick D. Larkey, University of Michigan Honorable mentions: Thomas McCaleb, Louisiana State University; Nonna Noto, Stanford University |
| 1975 | John B. Burbidge, McGill University Honorable mentions: John Neufeld, University of Michigan; Andrew Reschovsky, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1974 | Helen F. Ladd, Harvard University Honorable mentions: William Fischel, Princeton University; Ann Roell Markusen, Michigan State University |
| 1973 | John H. Bowman, Ohio State University Honorable mentions: A. Mitchell Polinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Roger Schmenner, Yale University |
| 1972 | Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Honorable mentions: Gerald Auten, University of Michigan; George Garrison, Clark University |
| 1971 | Michael J. Boskin, University of California Honorable mentions: Robert Inman, University of Pennsylvania; Nancy Dayton Sidhu, University of Illinois |
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