Tag: awards

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 »

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 »

Janet Holtzblatt, 2020 Davie-Davis Award Recipient

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 »

2019 Dissertation Award Honorable Mention: Terry (Seok Min) Moon

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 »

2019 Dissertation Award Honorable Mention: Michael Stepner

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, 2019 Dissertation Award Winner

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 »