Doug Purvis Prize

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The Doug Purvis Prize (English: Doug Purvis Memorial Prize ) is a science award in economics . The award, presented annually by the Canadian Economics Association since 1994, is in memory of the economist Doug Purvis, who died in 1993 . A five-person committee honors scientific publications that are relevant to Canadian economics. The award is 10,000 dollars doped.

Award winners

  • 1994: Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia) and David Card (Princeton University) for A Comparative Analysis of Unemployment in Canada and the United States and David Laidler (University of Western Ontario) and William PB Robson ( CD Howe Institute ) for The Great Canadian disinflation
  • 1995: Tom Courchene (Queen's University) for Social Canada in the Millenium
  • 1996: Bob Young (University of Western Ontario) for The Secession of Quebec and the Future of Canada
  • 1997: Pierre Fortin (Université du Québec à Montréal) for The Great Canadian Slump and Edward Greenspon (The Globe and Mail) and Anthony Wilson-Smith for Double Vision - The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power
  • 1998: Jonathan Kesselman (University of British Columbia) for General Payroll Taxes: Economics, Politics and Design
  • 1999: John Helliwell (University of British Columbia) for How Much Do National Borders Matter
  • 2000: Ronald Kneebone (University of Calgary) and Kenneth McKenzie (University of Calgary) for Past (In) Discretions: Canadian Federal and Provincial Policy
  • 2001: Frances Woolley (Carleton University) and Carole Vincent (Institute for Research on Public Policy) for Taxing Canadian Families: What's Fair, What's Not, Choices
  • 2002: Jack Mintz (CD Howe Institute) for Most Favored Nation: Building a Framework for Smart Economic Policy
  • 2003: Paul Collins (Stikeman Elliot), Edward Iacobucci (University of Toronto), Michael Trebilock (University of Toronto) and Ralph Winter (University of British Columbia) for The Law and Economics of Canadian Competition Policy
  • 2004: Brian R. Copeland (University of British Columbia) and M. Scott Taylor (University of Calgary) for Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence
  • 2005: Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia) for Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice
  • 2006: Emmanuel Saez (University of California at Berkeley) and Michael Veall (McMaster University) for The Evolution of High Incomes in Northern America: Lessons from Canadian Evidence
  • 2007: David Green (University of British Columbia) and Jonathan Kesselman (Simon Fraser University) for Dimensions of Inequality in Canada
  • 2008: Gérard Bélanger (Université Laval) for L'économie du Québec, Mythes et Réalité
  • 2009: Michael Baker (University of Toronto and NBER), Jonathan Gruber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER) and Kevin Milligan (University of British Columbia) for Universal Child Care, Maternal Labor Supply, and Family Well Being
  • 2010: Bev Dahlby (University of Alberta) for Once on the Lips, Forever on the Hips: A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Fiscal Stimulus in OECD Countries
  • 2011: Kenneth McKenzie and Natalia Sershun (both University of Calgary) for Taxation and R&D: An investigation of the Push and Pull Effects
  • 2012: Charles M. Beach , Alan G. Green (both Queen's University) and Christopher Worswick (Carleton University) for Toward Improving Canada's Skilled Immigration Policy: An Evaluation Approach
  • 2013: Kathleen M. Day (University of Ottawa) and Stanley L. Winer (Carleton University) for Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada
  • 2014: Miles Corak (University of Ottawa) for Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility
  • 2015: Kevin Milligan (Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia) for Tax Policy for a New Era: Promoting Economic Growth and Fairness
  • 2016: The Ecofiscal Commission for The Way Forward: A Practical Approach to Reducing Canada's Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
  • 2017: David Green (University of British Columbia), Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia) and France St-Hilaire (Institute for Research on Public Policy) for Income Inequality: The Canadian Story.
  • 2018: Ari Van Assche (HEC Montréal), Robert Wolfe (Queen's University) and Stephen Tapp (Export Development Canada) for: Redesigning Canadian Trade Policies for New Global Realities.
  • 2019: Lars Osberg (Dalhousie University) for The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1%
  • 2020: David Card (University of California, Berkeley), Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto) for Small Differences II: Public Policies in Canada and the United States

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