Awards.

PositionNBER News - Susan Athey was elected a vice president of die American Economic Association - Jonathan Berk and the late Richard Green were awarded the Stephen Ross Prize - John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte Madrian received the TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award

Susan Athey was elected a vice president of die American Economic Association.

Jonathan Berk and the late Richard Green were awarded the Stephen Ross Prize, a biannual award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics for a paper in financial economics published in the last 15 years, for "Mutual Fund Flows and Performance in Rational Markets."

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte Madrian received the TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security, for their paper, "Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk-Taking?"

Francine D. Blau was awarded the 2017 Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor Economists in recognition of lifetime contributions to the field of labor economics.

Anne C. Case was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Medicine. She and Angus Deaton received the Franklin Founder Award, recognizing excellence in a field germane to the interests of Benjamin Franklin.

Wesley Cohen received the Wiley Technology Innovation Management Distinguished Scholar Award, a lifetime achievement award conferred by the Technology Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management.

Janet Currie received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich.

Stefano DellaVigna and Brian Knight, and their coauthors Ruben Durante and Eliana La Ferrara, received the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Best Paper Prize for their paper, "Market-Based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy."

Dave Donaldson received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association and was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Darrell Duffie and Haoxiang Zhu and their coauthor Piotr Dworczak won a 2017 Amundi Pioneer Prize from the American Finance Association, awarded annually for the top three papers in fields other than corporate finance, for their paper, "Benchmarks in Search Markets."

Mara Faccio was elected a director of the American Finance Association.

Pinelopi Goldberg was elected a vice president of the American Economic Association.

Claudia Goldin received an honorary doctorate from the European University Institute.

Gautam Gowrisankaran was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oulu in Finland.

John Graham was awarded the American Taxation Association Outstanding Manuscript Award for "Tax Rates and...

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