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 »
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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 »
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 »
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 »