Category: Awards

Janet Holtzblatt is the recipient of the 2020 Davie-Davis Public Service award. Janet is a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Over a three-decade career in the federal government, she worked on a broad range of tax policy issues, with emphasis on the tax treatment of families and workers, health reform, the administration… Read more »

Terry (Seok Min) Moon is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia. His research interests lie at the intersection of public economics and corporate finance. Broadly, the main goal of his current research is to understand how market frictions affect real investment and resource allocations in the economy. In particular, he… Read more »

Michael Stepner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be awarded an honorable mention at the 2019 NTA Annual Conference in Tampa. Michael is a postdoctoral fellow in Retirement and Disability Policy Research at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a postdoctoral affiliate at Harvard Economics Opportunity Insights. His research examines how social insurance affects equity… Read more »

Cailin Slattery has won the NTA’s Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2019. She will accept the award at the NTA Annual Conference in Tampa. Cailin Slattery is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Division at Columbia Business School. Her primary fields of interest are industrial organization, public finance, and urban economics. In particular, she studies how… Read more »

Dr. Mark Mazur is the recipient of the 2019 Davie-Davis Public Service award. Mark’s distinguished career includes service in academia, government, and the non-profit sector. He is currently the Robert C. Pozen Director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Mark received his Ph.D. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. After four years as an assistant… Read more »

David Schönholzer has won the NTA’s Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2018. David is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University. He is a political economist studying the efficient provision of public goods, the role of governance, and the development of state capacity. His work speaks to issues in local public finance in… Read more »