Jacob Mincer Award

The Jacob Mincer Award is an economic award issued by the Society of Labour Economics (SOLE) honouring lifetime contributions to the field of labour economics.

The Jacob Mincer Award
Awarded forA lifetime of contributions to the field of labour economics
Presented byThe Society of Labour Economists
First awarded2004
Currently held byRichard Blundell (2020)[1]
Websitewww.sole-jole.org/Mincer-Award-Main.html

Initially named the "Career Achievement Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Labor Economics", the prize was first awarded to Jacob Mincer and Gary Becker in 2004, and was subsequently known as the "Mincer Award"".[2] The award is to be presented annually, provided a suitable nominee is found, by a committee appointed by the society President and approved by the Executive Board.[2]

Three winners of the Jacob Mincer Award have also been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Recipients

Year Image Recipient Country Ph.D. alma mater Institution (most significant tenure/at time of receipt)
2004 Jacob Mincer  United States           Columbia University Columbia University
Gary Becker  United States University of Chicago University of Chicago
2005 Orley Ashenfelter  United States Princeton University Princeton University
James Heckman  United States Princeton University University of Chicago
2006 Richard Freeman  United States Harvard University Harvard University
Edward Lazear  United States Harvard University Stanford University
2007 Dale Mortensen  United States Carnegie Mellon University Northwestern University
Finis Welch  United States University of Chicago Texas A&M University
2008 Reuben Gronau  Israel Columbia University Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John Pencavel  United Kingdom Princeton University Stanford University
2009 Claudia Goldin  United States University of Chicago Harvard University
Yoram Weiss  Israel Stanford University Tel Aviv University
2011 Ronald Ehrenberg  United States Northwestern University Cornell University
2013 Daniel Hamermest  United States Yale University University of Texas, Austin
2015 Robert Willis  United States University of Washington University of Michigan
2017 Francine Blau  United States Harvard University Cornell University
2018 Henry Farber  United States Princeton University Princeton University
2019 David Card  Canada Princeton University University of California, Berkeley
2020 Richard Blundell  United Kingdom N/A University College London

References

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