Annual Report of Awards to NBER Affiliates.

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Anjali Adukia received an Early Career Product Award from the Education Policy Collaborative. Her study "What We Teach about Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books," coauthored with Alex Eble, Emileigh Harrison, Hakizumwami Birali Runesha, and Teodora Szasz, was named one of the 10 most significant education studies of 2021 by the George Lucas Educational Foundation.

Joseph Aldy and coauthor Gianfranco Gianfrate won the 2021 FIR-PRI Finance & Sustainability Award for Best Pedagogical Innovation for "Future-Proof Your Climate Strategy: Smart Companies Are Putting Their Own Price on Carbon" in Harvard Business Review.

Marcella Alsan was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and received the 2021 Willard G. Manning Memorial Award for Best Research in Health Econometrics for "Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland," with Owen Garrick and Grant Graziani.

Elizabeth Ananat was named a Carnegie Foundation Fellow.

Joshua Angrist, David Card, and Guido Imbens shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in recognition of their contributions to labor economics and the analysis of natural experiments.

Alan J. Auerbach was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association and received the Order of the Rising Sun from the Government of Japan.

David Autor received a Society for Progress Medal for his "path-breaking research underscoring the core contemporary issue of labor adjustment in response to developments in trade and technology."

Robert J. Barro was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Marco Battaglini and coauthors Eleonora Patacchini and Valerio Leone Sciabolazza received the inaugural Best Publication on Effective Lawmaking Award from the Center for Effective Lawmaking at the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University for their paper "Effectiveness of Connected Legislators."

Axel Borsch-Supan received the SENECA Medal for aging research for fundamental and policy-relevant work on old-age labor supply.

Jeffrey Brown was named the 2021 Poets & Quants Dean of the Year.

Markus Brunnermeier received the 2021 German Business Book Prize, awarded by Handelsblatt, the Frankfurt Book Fair, and Goldman Sachs, for The Resilient Society, which was also on the Best Books of 2021: Economics list of the Financial Times.

Dennis W. Carlton received a best article award from Economic Inquiry for his paper on "Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits: Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?" coauthored with Cory Capps and Guy David.

Anne C. Case was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association and received the Matilda White Riley Award from the National Institutes of Health for research that "has contributed to behavioral and social scientific knowledge and the application of such knowledge relevant to the mission of the National Institutes of Health."

Dhaval Dave and Monica Deza and their coauthor Brady Horn received the Georgescu-Roegen Prize for the...

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