John Willis Clark

Amy Finkelstein: 2012 John Bates Clark Medalist

A my Finkelstein is the 2012 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association. A notable feature of Amy’s research program is the dedication with which she has pursued her core interests in insurance markets and health care. She has addressed, with new insights at each turn, central issues such as whether asymmetric information leads to ineffi ciencies in insurance...

Roland Fryer: 2015 John Bates Clark Medalist

R oland Fryer has emerged during the last decade as a leading scholar of the US racial divide and as a major figure in the evaluation of education policies to narrow the racial achievement gap and improve the prospects of low-income and minority children. He has been bold and fearless in his willingness to apply rigorous economic theory, to collect new data, and to develop and implement appropr...

In Honor of Andrei Shleifer: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal

Clark Glymour

Twenty years ago, Nancy Cartwright wrote a perceptive essay in which she clearly distinguished causal relations from associations, introduced philosophers to Simpson’s paradox, articulated the difficulties for reductive probabilistic analyses of causation that flow from these observations, and connected causal relations with strategies of action (Cartwright 1979). Five years later, without appr...

Katerina Clark