IPUMS Research Award 2011 – Call for Nominations and Submissions
This is the fourth annual award competition for research using the IPUMS microdata collection. Papers or publications submitted should utilize IPUMS-USA,CPS or IPUMS-International,NAPP to study social, economic, and/or demographic processes.
Cash prizes will be awarded for:
- Best published work, and
- Best work by a graduate student, published or unpublished.
Deadline for nomination or submission: February 15, 2012. To submit your work, go to: award.pop.umn.edu/2011/registration.
Previous Awards
2010 IPUMS Research Awards
The winners of the IPUMS-USA/IPUMS-CPS Research Awards were:
Published work co-winner: Matthijs Kalmijn and Frank van Tubergen, for their article "A comparative perspective on intermarriage: Explaining differences among national-origin groups in the United States." Demography 47.2 (2010):459.
Published work co-winner: Leah Boustan, Price Fishback, and Shawn Kantor, for their article "The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities during the Great Depression." Journal of Labor Economics 28.4 (2010):719.
Graduate Student: Elias Walsh for his paper "The Role of Wage Persistence in the Evolution of the College-High School Wage Gap."
The winners of the IPUMS-International Research Awards were:
Published work: Hoyt Bleakley for his article "Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Explosure," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010): 1-45.
Graduate Student: Willa Friedman, for her paper "Local Economic Conditions and Participation in the Rwandan Genocide."
2009 IPUMS Research Awards
The winners of the IPUMS-USA Research Awards were:
Published work: Jacob Vigdor for his book From Immigrants to America, Profiles in Assimilation. Rowman & Littlefied Publishers, Inc.
Graduate Student: Christine Percheski for her article “Opting Out? Cohort Differences in Professional Women’s Employment Rates from 1960 to 2005.” American Sociological Review 73 (3): 497-517.
The winners of the IPUMS-International Research Awards were:
Published work: Cynthia Feliciano for her article “Gendered Selectivity: U.S. Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Nonmigrants, 1960–2000.” Latin American Research Review, 43(1): 139-160.
Graduate Student: Misty Heggeness for her paper “Global trends in marital instability from 1970 to the present: Do economic opportunity and economic development matter?”
2008 IPUMS Research Award
The winners of the IPUMS-International Research Awards were:
Senior scholar: David Lam and Leticia Marteleto, "Stages of the demographic transition from a child's perspective: family size, cohort size, and children's resources"
Junior scholar: Kevin J.A. Thomas, "The human capital characteristics and household living standards of returning international migrants in Eastern and Southern Africa"
Graduate Student: Claire Chase, Tobenna Anekwe, Jeremy Barofsky, and Farzadfar Farshad, "Economic effects of malaria eradication: evidence from an eradication experiment in Kigezi, Uganda"
