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Dissertation Award

W.E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award

The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research invites submissions for its 27th annual prize for the best PhD dissertation on employment-related issues.

The Institute supports and conducts policy-relevant research on issues related to employment, unemployment, and social insurance programs. The dissertation award furthers this mission. The dissertation may come from any academic discipline, but it must have a substantial policy focus. Dissertations will be evaluated by a panel of economists using the following criteria:

• Policy relevance
• Technical quality of the research
• Presentation

Upper  $2,500 USD Lower   $1,000 USD

Any person whose dissertation has been accepted during the 24-month period from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2021 is eligible for the 2021 prize.

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Anna Stansbury Wins 2021 Dissertation Award from Upjohn Institute

Oct 28, 2021

MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury

MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury is the first-prize winner of the Upjohn Institute’s 2021 Dissertation Awards. For more than 25 years, the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, a private, not-for-profit, nonpartisan research organization that studies policy-related issues of employment and unemployment, has sponsored annual awards for the best PhD dissertations on employment policies and issues.

Stansbury, who won the 2021 first-prize award for her dissertation “Essays on Power in Labor Markets” for Harvard University, is now an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is in the core faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER). She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Stansbury holds a BA in economics from Cambridge University, a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and an MA and PhD in economics from Harvard University.

“This year’s Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award winners have made path-breaking contributions to our understanding of some of the most salient employment issues of our time, including the bargaining power of workers, the gender pay gap, remote work, and the implications of affirmative action for future earnings,” said Susan N. Houseman, Vice President and Director of Research at the Upjohn Institute, in a statement on the organization’s website. “These dissertations undoubtedly will influence not only future academic research but also our thinking about a range of state and federal social policies.”

Stansbury noted via Twitter that she is “incredibly honoured” to receive the Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award. “For many years now I’ve looked to the Upjohn Dissertation Award lists as representing exactly the kind of researcher I aspired to be,” Stansbury (@annastansbury) posted.

You can read more about this year’s award winners  here .

Joonas Tuhkuri awarded 2022 Dissertation Award from the Upjohn Institute

Joonas Tuhkuri, who received his PhD from MIT Economics in 2022, has been named winner of this year's Dissertation Award from the Upjohn Institute. The Institute's annual awards recognize the best PhD dissertations on employment policies and issues, and Tuhkuri received first prize for his dissertation "Essays on Technology and Work."

Tuhkuri is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berlin School of Economics, and he will join Stockholm University next year as an assistant professor of economics.

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Harvard Economics' recent graduate Simon Jäger Wins Upjohn Dissertation Award

The Upjohn Institute has awarded Simon Jäger First Prize for his dissertation "Essays in Labor and Public Economics." Simon's current position is with the  Institute on Behavior and Inequality  in Bonn and he will join MIT's Department of Economics in the fall of 2017.

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Dissertation Award

The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research announces its 30th annual prize for the best PhD dissertation on employment-related issues. The Institute has sponsored dissertation awards each year since 1995.

A first prize of $2,500 is being offered. Up to two honorable mention awards of $1,000 may also be given.

Eligible persons for the 2024 prize are those whose dissertation was accepted during the 24-month period from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The deadline for submission is July 21, 2024.

The dissertation may come from any academic discipline, but it must have a substantial policy focus.

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Economist selected as co-winner of Upjohn dissertation award

Published: October 01, 2003

Author: Shannon Roddel

The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research has selected Notre Dame economist James X. Sullivan as a co-winner of its 2003 doctoral dissertation award.p. Titled “Essays on the Consumption, Saving, and Borrowing Behavior of Poor Households,” Sullivan’s dissertation addresses policy-relevant issues related to the well-being of the poor, including the ability of households to endure unemployment, the hardships single mothers encounter while transitioning from welfare to work, and the repercussions of welfare reform on saving.p. The dissertation excelled in all areas of focus ? policy relevance, technical quality of the research, potential impact on real world problems, and presentation ?according to Randall W. Eberts, executive director of the Upjohn Institute.p. “We were particularly impressed with ? focus on consumption behavior of the poor and how temporary unemployment lowers consumption for those who are unable to access unsecured debt,” he said. “This issue and others ? are highly relevant to both anti-poverty and unemployment policy.”p. Now in his second year as an assistant professor of economics and econometrics at Notre Dame, Sullivan completed his dissertation at Northwestern University, where he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in 1997 and 2002, respectively. A 1993 Notre Dame graduate, he shared the Upjohn award with Rucker Johnson of the University of Michigan.

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Alum Alexander Levine Honored with Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award

University of Maryland Department of Computer Science alum Alexander Levine (Ph.D. '23, computer science) has been awarded the Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award for his dissertation titled "Scalable Methods for Robust Machine Learning." Levine, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin , focused on developing machine learning models that maintain accuracy amid distortions. The award ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, May 14, at the Stamp Student Union. The award is for the dissertation he completed in 2023.

The Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award is given annually by the Graduate School to recognize dissertations that provide highly original contributions that make an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Levine is among four recipients of the award this year.

Awardees receive an honorarium of $1,000. Additionally, they may be nominated for further recognition at the national level through the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award competition, which selects outstanding dissertations from across the country to honor achievements in graduate research.

“I feel honored that my work has been recognized by this award,” Levine said. “I am deeply thankful for all of the support I received during my time at UMD from my advisor, my collaborators, my dissertation committee and the rest of the UMD computer science community. I am fortunate to have worked with such talented people on such interesting problems.”

Advised by Associate Professor Soheil Feizi , Levine's dissertation introduces innovative methods for ensuring the robustness of machine learning models, specifically in scenarios where input data may be subtly altered or distorted, including malicious tampering. This research is particularly relevant as machine learning applications become increasingly prevalent in areas requiring high reliability and security.

Levine explained that practitioners can implement these systems more confidently in safety-critical applications by developing machine learning techniques with well-understood robustness guarantees. He noted that the capabilities of machine-learning-based systems have expanded dramatically in just the last couple of years, increasing their use in various sectors. Levine emphasized the growing importance of ensuring these systems' robustness as their applications broaden.

Levine is currently expanding his research focus.

“At UT Austin, my research focus has shifted to representation learning for sequential decision-making tasks,” Levine shared. “In particular, I have been working on frameworks that allow deep learning to be used in combination with search-based planning techniques, so that we can benefit from both the powerful capabilities of modern deep learning and the interpretability, flexibility and efficiency of classical planning methods. ”

Levine received the Larry S. Davis Doctoral Dissertation Award in the Fall of 2023 . Named in honor of Computer Science Professor Emeritus Larry Davis , the award, given by UMD’s Department of Computer Science, highlighted dissertations that were exceptional in their technical depth and potential for significant impact.

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Jablin Dissertation Award – Call for Submissions, Applications Due June 15th, 2024

By Patricia Spillane

The Fredric M. Jablin Doctoral Dissertation Award, which I hope will interest your doctoral students. A description of the award and the application process can be found at http://jepson.richmond.edu/about/jablin-dissertation-award/index.html . 

Established in 1992, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of leadership. Jepson faculty members make significant contributions to their home disciplines as well as to the field of leadership studies. They come from leading doctoral programs in traditional academic disciplines such as religious studies, philosophy, and social psychology. 

This interdisciplinary approach to leadership is reflected in our recent selection of recipients for the Jablin Dissertation Award. Past winners earned their doctorates in such areas as political science at Yale University, history at Stanford, and religion at Princeton University.

  I hope that you will consider nominating one of your doctoral students for the award. I would be most willing to discuss the award with you or any potential recipients you may know. The deadline for applications is June 15, 2024 .

  If you have any questions or want to further discuss a potential candidate, you are more than welcome to reach out to Dean Peart ( [email protected] ) to discuss.