Awards 2016.

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John Abowd received the Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics. The award, presented by the Washington Statistical Society, the National Association for Business Economics, and the American Statistical Association, recognizes original and important contributions to the development of economic statistics.

Kenneth Ahern won second place in the Jensen Prize competition for the Best Paper in the Journal of Financial Economics. He was honored for his paper "Lost in Translation? The Effect of Cultural Values on Mergers Around the World," with Daniele Daminelli and Cesare Fracassi.

Susan Athey was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and received the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize.

Orazio Attanasio received the Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize from the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) and the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize.

Javier Bianchi received the Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

Olivier Blanchard received an honorary doctorate from London Business School, was named an Officier de la Legion d'Honneur in France, and was elected President of the American Economic Association.

Francine D. Blau received the 2017 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award, presented each year by the Industrial and Labor Relations School at Cornell University to a graduate in recognition of outstanding professional accomplishments and commitment to the school.

Eric Budish, Heidi Williams, and Benjamin N. Roin received the 24th Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics for the paper, "Do Firms Underinvest in Long-Term Research? Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials."

Leonardo Bursztyn received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Economics.

John Y. Campbell delivered the Richard T. Ely Lecture at the American Economic Association meetings in January 2016.

John Cawley became the U.S. Department of State's Fulbright Specialist in Economics to Ireland.

Stephen G. Cecchetti was awarded an honorary doctorate from the faculty of business and economics at the University of Basel.

Janet Currie received an honorary doctorate from l'Universite Jean Moulin Lyon III and the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award for furthering the role of women in economics from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

Angus Deaton was named Knight Bachelor in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, Doctor of Humane Letters from Brown University, Honorary Fellow and Royal Medal...