Lucy Msall, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 118th NTA Annual Conference, on November 6–8, 2025 in Boston, MA. Lucy Msall is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Wealth and Income Inequality at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Next year she will join the University of Chicago Law School as… Read more »
Category: Awards
2025 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Honorable Mention: Jordan Richmond
Jordan Richmond, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 118th NTA Annual Conference, on November 6–8, 2025 in Boston, MA. Jordan is an Assistant Professor of Finance at The University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in September 2024. His research interests lie at the… Read more »
Javier Feinmann, 2025 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Winner
Javier Feinmann, has won the NTA’s Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2025. He will accept the award at the 118th NTA Annual Conference, on November 6–8, 2025 in Boston, MA. Javier Feinmann is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Paris School of Economics. His research focuses on taxation, inequality, and education in developing countries. Methodologically, he… Read more »
James Alm, 2025 Holland Medal Recipient
The Daniel M. Holland Medal was created in 1993 in the memory of Daniel Holland, a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and long-time editor of the National Tax Journal. The Holland Medal, the most prestigious award given by the National Tax Association, recognizes lifetime achievement in the… Read more »
Barry Johnson, 2025 Davie-Davis Award Recipient
Barry Johnson is the recipient of the 2025 Davie-Davis Public Service Award. Johnson is a Non-Resident Fellow in the Urban-Brooking Tax Policy Center. His research focuses on expanding access to data for evidence building, improving the quality and utility of administrative data for statistical uses, protecting data confidentiality, and measuring distributions of income and wealth. … Read more »
2024 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Honorable Mention: Christopher Hollrah
Christopher Hollrah, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 117th NTA Annual Conference, on November 15, 2024 in Detroit, MI. Chris received his PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2024. His primary fields are public finance and health economics. His research aims to understand how people respond to public program incentives,… Read more »
2024 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Honorable Mention: Sara Spaziani
Sara Spaziani, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 117th NTA Annual Conference, on November 15, 2024 in Detroit, MI. Sara Spaziani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick. Her primary research interests are in public economics and labor economics. In particular, she studies how public policies… Read more »
Evan Soltas, 2024 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Winner
Evan Soltas, has won the NTA’s Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2024. He will accept the award at the 117th NTA Annual Conference, on November 15, 2024 in Detroit, MI. Evan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New York City, and next year he will join Princeton University as an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs…. Read more »
Hilary Hoynes, 2024 Holland Medal Recipient
The Daniel M. Holland Medal was created in 1993 in the memory of Daniel Holland, a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and long-time editor of the National Tax Journal. The Holland Medal, the most prestigious award given by the National Tax Association, recognizes lifetime achievement in the… Read more »
Donald J. Boyd, 2024 Steven D. Gold Award Recipient
The Steven D. Gold Award was created in 1997 in memory of Steve Gold, who had an exemplary career as an analyst, researcher, and teacher, specializing in issues related to state and local public finance and intergovernmental relations. The award is given annually by the National Tax Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures —… Read more »

