Austin Robinson Memorial Prize

The Austin Robinson Memorial Prize is awarded to the best paper published in The Economic Journal in a given year by an author (or multiple authors) who is within 5 years of receiving his or her (or their) PhD at the time of acceptance, as selected by the Editors of The Economic Journal.

 

Previous Winners

2025 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize

The Royal Economic Society (RES) is pleased to announce that the 2025 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize has been awarded to Benjamin Milner (University of Alberta) for the article ‘The Impact of State-Provided Education: Evidence from the

2024 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize

The Royal Economic Society (RES) is pleased to announce that the 2024 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize has been awarded to Richard Bräuer and Felix Kersting for ‘Trade Shocks, Labour Markets

2023 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize

The RES is pleased to announce that the 2023 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize has been awarded to Gustav Agneman and Esther Chevrot-Bianco for ’ Market Participation and Moral Decision-Making: Experimental

2022 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize

  The RES is pleased to announce that the 2022 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize has been awarded to Erin Hengel for the article ‘Publishing While Female: Are Women Held to

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2021 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize

The RES is pleased to announce that the 2021 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize has been awarded to Enrico Berkes and Ruben Gaetani for their article ‘The Geography of Unconventional Innovation'.

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2020 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize

The RES is pleased to announce that the 2020 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize has been awarded to Vasiliki Fouka & Alain Schläpfer for their article ‘Agricultural Returns to Labour and

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2019 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize

The RES is pleased to announce that the 2019 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize has been awarded to Evelina Gavrilova, Takuma Kamada and Floris Zoutman for their article ‘Is Legal Pot

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2018 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize

The 2018 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize was awarded to Isabel Cairó and Tomaz Cajner for their article ‘ Human Capital and Unemployment Dynamics: Why More-Educated Workers Enjoy Greater Employment Stability.’

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Austin Robinson Memorial Prize 2017

The 2017 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize was awarded to Josephine Duh and Dean Spears for their article ‘Health and Hunger: Disease, Energy Needs, and the Indian Calorie Consumption Puzzle‘. RES2018:

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Austin Robinson Memorial Prize 2015

The 2015 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize was awarded jointly to Pedro Gomes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Erick Gong (Middlebury College) at the Royal Economic Society's 2016 Conference. Here,