The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge."[1] The award is named after the American economist John Bates Clark (1847–1938).
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, it "is widely regarded as one of the field's most prestigious awards... second only to the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences."[2] Many of the recipients went on to receive the Nobel Prizes in their later careers, including the inaugural recipient Paul Samuelson. The award was made biennially until 2007, but from 2009 is now awarded every year because of the growth of the field.[3] Although the Clark medal is billed as a prize for American economists, it is sufficient that the candidates work in the US at the time of the award; US nationality is not necessary to be considered.
| Year | Medalists | Institution (at time of receipt) | Alma mater (PhD) | Nationality | Nobel Prize | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 1970 | |||||
| 1949 | United States | |||||
| 1951 | United States | 1976 | ||||
| 1955 | Harvard University | United States | 1981 | |||
| 1957 | Columbia University | United States | 1972 | |||
| 1959 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 1980 | |||
| 1961 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Harvard University | United States | 1987 | ||
| 1963 | Harvard University | |||||
| 1965 | Harvard University | University of Chicago | ||||
| 1967 | University of Chicago | University of Chicago | United States | 1992 | ||
| 1969 | Yale University | United States | ||||
| 1971 | Harvard University | Harvard University | United States | |||
| 1973 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Harvard University | United States | |||
| 1975 | United States | 2000 | ||||
| 1977 | Harvard University | University of Oxford | United States | |||
| 1979 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 2001 | |||
| 1981 | Harvard University | Harvard University | United States | 2001 | ||
| 1983 | University of Chicago | Princeton University | United States | 2000 | ||
| 1985 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | University of Oxford | United States | |||
| 1987 | Princeton University | University of Chicago | United States | |||
| 1989 | Stanford University | Stanford University | United States | |||
| 1991 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 2008 | ||
| 1993 | Harvard University | United States | ||||
| 1995 | University of California, Berkeley | Princeton University | 2021 | |||
| 1997 | University of Chicago | University of Chicago | United States | |||
| 1999 | Harvard University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | |||
| 2001 | University of California, Berkeley | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | |||
| 2003 | University of Chicago | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | |||
| 2005 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Turkey, United States | ||||
| 2007 | Stanford University | Stanford University | United States | |||
| 2009 | University of California, Berkeley | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| 2010 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | France | 2019 | ||
| 2011 | Stanford University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | |||
| 2012 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | |||
| 2013 | Harvard University | Harvard University | United States | |||
| 2014 | University of Chicago | Harvard University | United States | |||
| 2015 | Harvard University | United States | ||||
| 2016 | Princeton University | Stanford University | ||||
| 2017 | Dave Donaldson[4] | Stanford University [5] | London School of Economics | Canada | ||
| 2018 | Parag Pathak[6] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Harvard University | United States[7] | ||
| 2019 | Emi Nakamura[8] | University of California, Berkeley | Harvard University | United States and Canada | ||
| 2020 | Melissa Dell[9] | Harvard University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | ||
| 2021 | Isaiah Andrews[10] | Harvard University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | ||
| 2022 | Oleg Itskhoki[11] | University of California, Los Angeles | Harvard University | Russia and United States[12] | ||
| 2023 | Gabriel Zucman[13] [14] | Ecole normale supérieure, Paris and University of California, Berkeley | School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) | France | ||
| 2024 | Philipp Strack[15] | Yale University | University of Bonn[16] |