James Cilke is the recipient of the 2024 Davie-Davis Public Service Award. Cilke serves as a Senior Economist for the U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Taxation. Previously, he served as a financial economist at the Office of Tax Policy at the Treasury Department in the Economic Modeling and Computer Applications Division of the Office of… Read more »
Category: Awards
2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Honorable Mention: Michael Love
Michael Love, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 116th NTA Annual Conference, on November 3, 2023 in Denver, CO. Michael Love is an associate professor at Columbia Law School. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on U.S. business taxation, especially on topics involving the… Read more »
2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Honorable Mention: Neil Cholli
Neil Cholli, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 116th NTA Annual Conference, on November 3, 2023 in Denver, CO. Neil Cholli is a Klarman Fellow at Cornell University’s Department of Economics. His primary fields of research are labor and public economics. Neil’s work leverages applied microeconomic methods guided by theory to understand the mechanisms… Read more »
Ben Sprung-Keyser, 2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Winner
Ben Sprung-Keyser, Harvard University, has won the NTA’s Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2023. He will accept the award at the 116th NTA Annual Conference, on November 3, 2023 in Denver, CO. Ben is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Opportunity Insights at Harvard University. He is also a co-director at Policy Impacts. His research specializes in public… Read more »
Daniel Shaviro, 2023 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 »
Gerald Auten, 2023 Davie-Davis Award Recipient
Gerald Auten is the recipient of the 2023 Davie-Davis Public Service Award. Auten has spent much of his career at the U.S. Department of Treasury where he is now Senior Research Economist in the Office of Tax Analysis. He has been a dedicated public servant, having long worked with key officials at the Treasury and… Read more »
2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Honorable Mention: Paul Kindsgrab
Paul Kindsgrab, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 2022 NTA Annual Conference, on November 10, 2022 in Miami, FL. Paul received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2022. His primary fields of interest are public finance and labor economics. Paul’s research empirically studies how tax policy impacts the economy,… Read more »
2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Honorable Mention: Maggie Shi
Maggie Shi, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 2022 NTA Annual Conference, on November 11, 2022 in Miami. Maggie Shi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She will join the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2023. She received her… Read more »
Valeria Zurla, 2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation Award Winner
Valeria Zurla, Brown University, has won the NTA’s Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2022. She will accept the award at the 2022 NTA Annual Conference, on November 10, 2022 in Miami, FL. Valeria Zurla is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Population Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin and an Assistant Professor of… Read more »
Jane Gravelle, 2022 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 »