Journal of Population Economics - Kuznets-Prize

The Journal of Population Economics awards the `Kuznets Prize’ for the best paper published in the Journal of Population Economics. Starting from 2014, the Kuznets Prize will be awarded annually to the best paper published in the Journal of Population Economics. Papers are judged by the Editors of the Journal of Population Economics.

Simon Kuznets, a pioneer in populations economics, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and the 1971 Nobel Prize laureate in economics, died on July 10, 1985. Professor Kuznets was born in 1901 in Pinsk, Belarus, and came to the United States in 1922. He earned his Bachelor of Science in 1923, a Master of Arts degree in 1924 and his doctorate in 1926, all from Columbia University. During World War II, he was Associate Director of the Bureau of Planning and Statistics on the War Production Board, and he served on the staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1927 to 1960. Mr. Kuznets was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania for 24 years and Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University from 1954 until he joined Harvard University in 1960. He retired in 1971 and was given the title of George F. Baker Professor Emeritus of Economics. He was a former president of the American Economic Association and the American Statistical Association.

Latest Kuznets Prizes (this opens in a new tab)