The Jacob Mincer Award is an economic award issued by the Society of Labour Economists (SOLE) honouring lifetime contributions to the field of labour economics.
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"". 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.
Four winners of the Jacob Mincer Award have also been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Recipients
YearImageRecipientCountryPh.D. alma materInstitution (most significant tenure/at time of receipt) 2004 Jacob Mincer Columbia University Columbia University Gary Becker University of Chicago University of Chicago 2005 Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University Princeton University James Heckman Princeton University University of Chicago 2006 Richard Freeman Harvard University Harvard University Edward Lazear Harvard University Stanford University 2007 Dale Mortensen Carnegie Mellon University Northwestern University Finis Welch University of Chicago Texas A&M University 2008 Reuben Gronau Columbia University Hebrew University of Jerusalem John Pencavel Princeton University Stanford University 2009 Claudia Goldin University of Chicago Harvard University Yoram Weiss Stanford University Tel Aviv University 2011 Ronald Ehrenberg Northwestern University Cornell University 2013 Daniel Hamermesh Yale University University of Texas, Austin 2015 Robert Willis University of Washington University of Michigan 2017 Francine Blau Harvard University Cornell University 2018 Henry Farber Princeton University Princeton University 2019 David Card Princeton University University of California, Berkeley 2020 Richard Blundell N/A University College London 2021 Kenneth Wolpin University of Pennsylvania 2022 Lawrence F. Katz Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University 2023 Joseph Altonji Princeton University Yale University 2024 Janet Currie Princeton University Princeton University 2025 John Bound Harvard University University of Michigan 2026 Shelly Lundberg Northwestern University University of California, Santa Barbara
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