The Elaine Bennett Research Prize, awarded every year by the American Economic Association, recognizes and honors outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman not more than ten years beyond her Ph.D. Prior to 2023 the award had been given every other year for a woman not more than seven years beyond her PhD. First awarded in 1998 in honor of economist Elaine Bennett, three of the first six winners of this prize have been the first three female winners of the John Bates Clark Medal.
Past recipients
Year Medalists Institution at Time of Award Nationality Clark Medal 1998 Judith Chevalier University of Chicago United States 2000 Susan C. Athey Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 2007 2002 Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology France 2010 2004 Marianne Bertrand University of Chicago Belgium 2006 Monika Piazzesi University of Chicago Germany 2008 Amy Finkelstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 2012 2010 Erica Field Harvard University United States 2012 Anna Mikusheva Massachusetts Institute of Technology Russia 2014 Emi Nakamura Columbia University United States and Canada 2019 2016 Marina Halac Columbia University and the University of Warwick Argentina 2018 Melissa Dell Harvard University United States 2020 2020 Stefanie Stantcheva Harvard University France 2025 2022 Rebecca Diamond Stanford University United States 2023Maya Rossin-SlaterStanford UniversityUnited States2024MIT Sloan School of ManagementIran2025Mira FrickPrinceton UniversityGerman
See also
List of awards honoring women List of economics awards John Bates Clark Medal
References