Stefanie Stantcheva awarded the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal

Congratulations to CEPR Research Fellow Stefanie Stantcheva, who has been awarded the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association (AEA).

First awarded in 1947, the John Bates Clark Medal is one of the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated awards of the American Economic Association (AEA), with several Nobel Laureates among its past recipients. The medal is awarded annually to recognise a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge by an American economist under the age of forty.

Stefanie Stantcheva is a Research Fellow in the Climate Change and the Environment, Macroeconomics and Growth, Political Economy, and Public Economics programme areas at CEPR. She is currently the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and the Founder and Director of the Social Economics Lab. She studies taxation, inequality, social economics, and innovation. Stefanie uses models and data to understand how to design a better tax system, for instance, to stimulate innovation and reduce inequality, and runs large-scale social economics surveys and experiments to explore the determinants of social preferences, attitudes, and perceptions.

Having received her PhD in Economics from MIT in 2014, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2014 to 2016, before joining the Harvard Department of Economics full time. Since May 2018, Stefanie has been a member of the French Council of Economic Advisers (Conseil d’Analyse Économique) and currently serves as Co-Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

The AEA awarded the Clark Medal to Stantcheva for her significant contributions to the field of public economics, in particular her groundbreaking research on the effects of tax policy on innovation, her rigorous theoretical analysis of optimal tax policy, and her use of innovative surveys and experiments to investigate individual knowledge and policy preferences regarding issues such as taxation, redistribution, international trade, climate change, and immigration. You can read the full press release published by the AEA here.

Congratulations once again to Stefanie for this wonderful achievement!