Annual Report of Awards to NBER Affiliates.

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Katherine Baicker was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lucian Bebchuk received the 2018 IRRC Institute Award for work in corporate governance for his research with Scott Hirst on "Index Funds and the Future of Corporate Governance: Theory, Evidence, and Policy."

Roland J. Benabou was elected as a corresponding member of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, one of the five national academies that collectively constitute the Institut de France.

Eli Berman was selected as president of the Economics of National Security Association.

Howard Bodenhorn was awarded the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History by the Economic History Association.

John Y. Campbell received an honorary degree from the BI Norwegian Business School.

David Deming was awarded the David N. Kershaw Prize, which honors persons under the age of 40 who have made distinguished contributions to the field of public policy.

Amy Finkelstein was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, which is awarded to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Price V. Fishback served as president of the Economic History Association.

Gita Gopinath was elected a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and was appointed economic counsellor and director of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund.

Benjamin Handel received the American Risk and Insurance Association Early Career Scholarly Achievement Award, shared the ASHEcon Medal for Top Health Economist Under 40 with Jonathan Kolstad, and was awarded the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation's Research Award for his paper "What Does a Deductible Do?" with Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Amitabh Chandra, and Jonathan Kolstad.

David Hirshleifer served as president elect of the American Finance Association and was elected a fellow of the Finance Theory Group.

Seema Jayachandran was awarded the 2018 Sustainability Science Award of the Ecological Society of America for her paper "Cash for Carbon" with Joost de Laat, Eric Lambin, Charlotte Stanton, Robin Audy, and Nancy Thomas.

Supreet Kaur received a Sloan Research Fellowship and a National Science Foundation CAREER award.

Mervyn King was awarded the Paul Volcker Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Association for Business Economics.

Morris M. Kleiner received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Labor and...

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