Tag: awards

James B. Mackie III is the recipient of the 2026 Davie-Davis Public Service Award. Mr. Mackie is a retired economist who specialized in business tax issues. He spent 32 years in the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis where he served as the Director, the head of the Revenue Estimating Division and a member of… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »