2008-9 awards and honors.

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A number of NBER researchers received honors, awards, and other forms of professional recognition during 2008 and early 2009. A list of these honors, excluding those that were bestowed by the researcher's home university and listing researchers in alphabetical order, is presented below.

Yacine Ait-Sahalia was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Journal of Econometrics and delivered the Hermann Otto Hirshfeld Lectures, Humboldt University, Berlin, in 2008; she also received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for 2008-9.

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat became a Research Associate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan.

Torben Andersen was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society during 2008.

Ashish Arora served on the "Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century" Economy Advisory Committee to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

Katherine Baicker was elected to the Board of Directors of Academy Health and was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Health Economics.

Anirban Basu received the Alan Williams Health Economics Fellowship for 2008 from the University of York (U.K.) He was also the 2008 Program Chair for the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.

Paul Beaudry was awarded the 2008 John Rae prize for the most significant contribution to economic research in Canada over the last five years.

David Blanchflower presented the Esmee Fairbairn Memorial Lecture at Lancaster University on October 30, 2007.

Rebecca Blank received the Distinguished Alumni Award at the University of Minnesota. She also will deliver the Sulzberger Lecture at Duke University's Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

Francine D. Blau has been named one of the five inaugural Academic Fellows of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA).

David Bloom was appointed an Ambassador in the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health.

Nicholas Bloom and Alex Mas won the Labor and Employment Relations Association's 2007 John T. Dunlop Scholar Award for "outstanding academic contributions to research by recent entrants to the field."

Jeffrey R. Brown was nominated by President Bush for the position of Public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds; he was awarded the Early Career Scholarly Achievement Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association; and he and Amy Finkelstein received the 2008 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for their paper, "The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market."

Richard V. Burkhauser is President-Elect of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. His term will begin in 2010. He also received the 2008 Felix Buchal Award for scholarship in interdisciplinary longitudinal research using the German Socio-Economic Panel. Finally, in 2008 he was the R.I. Downing Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

John Y. Campbell received an honorary doctorate from the University of Maastricht, in the Netherlands, on January 8, 2009.

Dennis W. Carlton, and his coauthors Joshua Cans and Michael Waldman, received the Robert F. Lanzilotti Prize, awarded by the International Industrial Organization Society, for the Best Paper in Antitrust Economics. Their paper is "Why Tie a Product Consumers Do Not Use?" (NBER Working Paper No. 13339).

Amitabh Chandra won the Eugene Garfield award with Douglas O. Staiger for the Impact of Medical Research. He was named a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources and is on the editorial board of the American Economic Review (Applied).

Raj Chetty received an Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship and the American Young Economist Award.

Richard H. Clarida, Jordi Gall, and Mark Gertler won the First Prize Award for Best Paper presented at the NBER'S International Seminar on Macroeconomics during its first 25 years (on...