Eckstein Prize Winners

2005/2006

First Prize is awarded jointly to

Monica Galizzi, University of Massachusetts Lowell

“Wage Changes, Establishment Growth, and the Effect of Composition Bias”

and to

Lalith Munasinghe and Nachum Sicherman, Columbia University

“Why Do Dancers Smoke? Smoking, Time Preference, and Wage Dynamics”

Previous Winners

• 1991/1992: Elizabeth Savoca, "The Effect of Changes in the Composition of Financial Aid on College Enrollments"
  
• 1993/1994: Mario Ferrero, "Why Were Investment Ratios so High in Soviet-type Economies? A Public Choice Approach"
  
• 1995/1996: Robert A. Blewett, "Property Rights as a Cause of the Tragedy of the Commons: Institutional and the Pastoral Maasai in Kenya"
  
• 1997/1998: Howard Bodenhorn, "Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?"
  
• 1999/2000: Thomas R. Michl, "Can Rescheduling Explain the New Jersey Minimum Wage Studies?"
• 2001/2002: Donald J. Smythe, "The Great Merger Movement and the Diffusion of Electric Power Utilization in American Manufacturing, 1899-1909: A Simple Test of the Schumpeterian Hypothesis"
• 2003/2004: Doris Weichselbaumer, "Is it Sex or Personality? The Impact of Sex Stereotypes on Discrimination in Applicant Selection"