Category: Awards

Martin Sullivan, 2021 Davie-Davis Award Recipient

Martin A. Sullivan is the recipient of the 2021 Davie-Davis Public Service award. Sullivan is the chief economist and contributing editor for Tax Notes, Tax Analysts’ daily and weekly publications and blog. An expert on the federal tax system, especially corporate taxation, he has written over 500 economic analyses for Tax Analysts’ publications and is the author… Read more »

2021 Dissertation Award Honorable Mention: Daniel Prinz

Daniel Prinz, Harvard University, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 2021 Virtual NTA Annual Conference, on November 19, 2021 on Zoom. Daniel is a Research Economist and Country Programme Manager at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries. His work covers topics in public finance, including… Read more »

2021 Dissertation Award Honorable Mention: Daniel G. Garrett

Daniel G. Garrett, Duke University, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 2021 Virtual NTA Annual Conference, on November 19, 2021 on Zoom. Daniel is currently an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School. His research is at the intersection of public finance and corporate finance. He explores how the… Read more »

Augustin Bergeron, 2021 Dissertation Award Winner

Augustin Bergeron, Harvard University, has won the NTA’s Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2021. He will accept the award at the 2021 Virtual NTA Annual Conference, on November 19, 2021 on Zoom.  Augustin Bergeron is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford King center on Global Development. He will join the University of Southern California (USC) as… Read more »

Rosanne Altshuler, 2021 Holland Medal Recipient

The Daniel M. Holland Medal was created in 1993 in the memory of Dan Holland, a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, who was an internationally recognized researcher, teacher, and practitioner in public finance. The Holland Medal, the most prestigious award given by the National Tax Association, recognizes… Read more »

Joan Youngman, 2021 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 »

Janet McCubbin, 2022 Davie-Davis Award Recipient

Janet McCubbin is a tax policy economist and research director, who has specialized in the taxation of low-income families and workers, health and retirement policy, and tax administration. She began her career in IRS’s Statistics of Income (SOI) Division, and later became Chief of SOI’s Special Studies Branch. In that role Janet led a staff of… Read more »

Dario Tortarolo, 2020 Dissertation Award Winner

Dario Tortarolo has won the NTA’s Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2020. He will accept the award at the Virtual NTA Annual Conference, on November 19, 2020 on Zoom.  Dario is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham. His research interests lie at… Read more »

2020 Dissertation Award Honorable Mention: Francis Wong

Francis Wong, University of California, Berkeley, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 2020 Virtual NTA Annual Conference. Francis Wong is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Aging and Health Research at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His primary fields of interest are public finance and consumer finance, with a particular focus on the relationship… Read more »

2020 Dissertation Award Honorable Mention: Amelia (Molly) Hawkins

Amelia (Molly) Hawkins, University of Michigan, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 2020 Virtual NTA Annual Conference. Amelia is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Brandeis University.  Her primary fields are public finance and labor economics. In her research she explores how social insurance and public assistance programs affect decision making of individuals and firms, with a… Read more »