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Awa Ambra Seck was awarded the the Padma Desai Research Award for Economics. Ambra is a development economist working at the intersection of development economics, political economy, and economic history. In her work, she combines quasi-experimental and...

Each year the Economics Department awards prizes to graduating economics thesis writers. The Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize and the Allyn A. Young Prize are awarded to students who have produced outstanding theses. The John H. Williams Prize is...

Chika Okafor, PhD candidate in the department of Economics, was named as a member of the 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship class. The fellowship "offers scholars in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and arts—as well as writers, journalists...

Professor Ludwig Straub, Assistant Professor of Economics, was named as a member of the 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship class. The fellowship "offers scholars in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and arts—as well as writers, journalists...

Former student Kalina Manova (Harvard '07), professor of Economics at University College London, was the recipient of the 2023 Yrjö Jahnsson Award. She was awarded for her "important contributions to international economics, especially on the impact of...

Professor Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, has been awarded the 2023 SIEPR Prize. He will receive the award at the SIEPR Economic Summit at Stanford on Friday, March 3rd. The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research gives...

Professor Shengwu Li, Assistant Professor of Economics, has been awarded the 2023 Sloan P. Foundations Fellowship prize. The Sloan Fellowship Awards are given annually in eight scientific and technical fields which include chemistry, computational and...

The Hirschman Prize is awarded to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to international, interdisciplinary social science research, theory, and public communication. Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and...

Henry Rosovsky, a member of the Harvard Economics Department since 1966, died on November 11, 2022, at the age of 95. Professor Rosovsky was a titan of academic administration, who had served as Department Chair, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

We are thrilled that Rebecca Diamond -- a 2013 graduate of our department -- has been awarded the 2022 Elaine Bennett Research Prize. The Elaine Bennett Research Prize recognizes and honors outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman not...