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Awards
Award Winners
2012 Victor R. Fuchs Award
Mark V. Pauly, Bendheim Professor in the Department of Health Care Management, Professor of Health Care Management, and Business and Public Policy at The Wharton School. He is Co-Director of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Life Sciences and Management Program and Professor of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pauly received the Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia. One of the nation’s leading health economists, he has made significant contributions to the fields of medical economics and health insurance. His classic study on the economics of moral hazard was the first to point out how health insurance coverage may affect patients’ use of medical services. A former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission, Dr. Pauly has served on the advisory committee to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and the Medicare Technical Advisory Panel. He recently served on the National Advisory Council for the National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, an associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, and Co-Editor of the Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2.
2012 ASHEcon Medal
Amitabh Chandra, Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). In 2011 he served as Massachusetts’ Special Commissioner on Provider Price Reform. He is an editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economics Letters, and the American Economic Journal, and was previously an editor at the Journal of Human Resources. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the New England Journal of Medicine. He is the first-prize recipient of the Upjohn Institute’s Dissertation Research Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics, and the Eugene Garfield Award for the impact of medical research.
Student Paper Award
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Past Award Winners
2010
Victor R. Fuchs Award
Willard G. Manning, Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy and the Department of Health Studies at the University of Chicago
ASHEcon Medal
Mark G. Duggan, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, and Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisers
Student Paper Award
Johathan T. Kolstad, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “Information and Quality when Motivation is Intrinsic: Evidence from Surgeon Report Cards”
2008
Victor R. Fuchs Award
Michael Grossman, CUNY and NBER
ASHEcon Medal
Loren Baker, Stanford University
Student Paper Award
Susan Feng Lu, Northwestern University
2006
Presented at the First Biennial Conference in Madison
ASHEcon Medal
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard
Student Paper Award
Grant Miller, Stanford, for his paper titled “Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia.”
ASHEcon Medal
Deadline: 16 February 5pm EST on the year of the ASHEcon
Conference
Description: The ASHEcon Medal is awarded biennially to the
economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to
the field of health economics.
Eligibility: Applicants must be age 40 or younger on
January 1 of the year of the ASHEcon conference. Applicants must hold their
primary appointment in an American institution, but need not be citizens of
the United States. As a condition of receiving this honor, the recipient
must attend the ASHEcon conference.
Criteria: The criteria are scholarly contributions to health
economics, primarily through publications in economics journals.
Contributions may be theoretical, empirical, or methodological.
Materials: A complete submission will include a brief nominating
letter from a colleague and the candidate’s curriculum vitae.
Deadline: The deadline is 16 February 5:00 pm ET in the year of
the ASHEcon conference. Submissions must be sent electronically.
Judging: All members of the Awards Committee will review all
applications. In the event of a conflict of interest, a new committee member
will replace the member with the conflict.
Victor R. Fuchs Award for Lifetime Contributions to the
Field of Health Economics
Deadline: 1 March 5pm EST on the year of the ASHEcon
Conference
Description: The Victor R. Fuchs Award for Lifetime Contributions
to the Field of Health Economics is awarded biennially to an economist who
has made significant lifetime contributions to the field of health
economics.
Eligibility: Applicants must hold their primary appointment (or be
emeritus or retired) at an institution based in the United States, but need
not be United States citizens. As a condition of receiving this honor, the
recipient must attend the ASHEcon conference.
Criteria: The criteria are scholarly contributions to health
economics, primarily through publications in economics journals.
Contributions may be theoretical, empirical, or methodological.
Materials: A complete submission will include a nominating letter
(typically no more than 2 pages) and the candidate’s curriculum vitae.
Committee members may also nominate candidates.
Deadline: The deadline is 1 March 5:00 pm ET in the year of the
ASHEcon conference. Submissions must be sent electronically.
Judging: All members of the Awards Committee will review all
applications. In the event of a conflict of interest, a new committee member
will replace the member with the conflict.
Student Paper Award
Description: The ASHEcon Student Paper Award honors the student
who wrote the best sole-authored paper.
Eligibility: Applicants must be current Ph.D. students or have
received their Ph.D. from an American institution. The paper must be sole
authored. The paper may be published (or forthcoming) in a
peer-reviewed journal. As a condition of receiving this honor, the recipient
must attend the ASHEcon conference.
Criteria: The Awards Committee will select the paper that makes
the greatest contribution to health economics. The paper’s contributions may
be theoretical, empirical, or methodological.
