Honors and Prizes

The Padma Desai Dissertation Prize is awarded each year to a Ph.D. candidate who provided the best dissertation defense. This prize was generously endowed by Professors Padma Desai and Jagdish Bhagwati in 2019.

The list of award winners is as follows:

2018/19: Weijie Zhong

2019/20: Juan Herreno

2020/21: Duarte Goncalves 

2021/22: Maggie Shi

Each year, the Academic Awards Committee evaluates papers from third-year Ph.D.s.

The list of award winners is as follows:

2019/20:
Winner: Yi Jie Gwee for “Great Expectations: Coordinating Devices and Urban Development in 17th Century London”
Runner Up #1: Sakshi Gupta for “Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: Evidence from India”
Runners Up #2: Andrew Olenski and Szymon Sacher for “Cream Skimming in Long-Term Care Markets”

2020/21:
Winner: Suneil Parimoo for “Robust Pricing Mediation in Bargaining ”
Runner Up #1: Utkarsh Kumar for “Severe Air Pollution, Transportation and Economic Activity in India”
Runners Up #2: Mitchell Vaughn for “Output Volatility and Borrowing Constraints”

2021/22:
Winner: Palaash Bhargava and  Cesar Barilla for “Grandma, sing me a climatic lullaby? — Historical origins of stated environmental preferences”
Runner Up #1: Kosha Modi for “Loan Covenants and the Investment Channel of Monetary Policy”
Runners Up #2: Victoria Mooers for “Social Connectedness and Political Accountability”