Gabriel Zucman Wins John Bates Clark Medal.

Gabriel Zucman of the University of California, Berkeley, a research associate in the NBER's Public Economics Program, has won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded annually by the American Economic Association to an American economist under the age of 40 who has made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.

Zucman has made path-breaking contributions in public finance, using rich new datasets to estimate the importance of both household and corporate tax evasion and its impact on revenues as well as reported income and wealth inequality. He also has pioneered the construction of...