Stefanie Stantcheva Wins John Bates Clark Medal

The American Economic Association (AEA) has awarded the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal to Stone Program faculty affiliate Stefanie Stantcheva, the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. The AEA statement announcing the award said, "Through her masterful application of innovative tools, both theoretical and empirical, Stantcheva has revisited classic questions in public finance and produced new insights into optimal tax policy and the general effects of taxes on economic behavior. She has also advanced our understanding about how people form views on key policy issues. She is a worthy recipient of the Clark Medal."

According to the AEA, the Clark Medal is "one of the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated AEA awards" and "is awarded annually each April (formerly biennially from 1947–2009) to that American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." Previous recipients include Stone Program faculty affiliate Raj Chetty, along with multiple economists who have delivered the Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality at HKS: Daron Acemoglu, Emmanuel Saez, and Joseph Stiglitz. For more information about the medal and to see all previous recipients, click here.

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