Russell Sage Foundation Nobelists
Nine scholars affiliated with the Russell Sage Foundation are winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. Established in 1968, the Nobel Prize in Economics annually recognizes outstanding contributions to the study of economics and is considered the most prestigious award in the field.
RSF Affiliates Awarded Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science
Since 1987, nine scholars affiliated with the Russell Sage Foundation have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. Established in 1968, the Nobel Prize in Economics annually recognizes outstanding contributions to the study of economics and is considered the most prestigious award in the field. RSF affiliates have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their contributions to a number of areas, including behavioral economics, economic growth, and game theory analysis.
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Claudia Goldin
2023
Goldin is a former RSF visiting scholar and grant recipient. She also contributed chapters to the RSF books Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace and The Declining Significance of Gender? Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and was the director of the National Bureau of Economic…
David Card
2021
David Card is the co-editor of RSF books Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality (2013) and Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform (2000). He contributed to RSF volume Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wage Workers (2006) and is an RSF grant recipient. He is Class of 1950…
Richard H. Thaler
2017
Richard Thaler is a former RSF trustee, former Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar, and a member of the foundation’s Behavioral Economics Roundtable. He is the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is…
Jean Tirole
2014
Jean Tirole is a member of the foundation's Behavioral Economics Roundtable and the founder of the Summer Institute on Economics and Psychology at the University of Toulouse, which was cosponsored by RSF. He is chairman of the board of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation at the Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific…
Robert Shiller
2013
Robert Shiller is a member of the foundation's Behavioral Economics Roundtable, a contributor to the RSF book Advances in Behavioral Finance (1993), and the recipient of multiple grants from RSF. He is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center…
Edmund Phelps
2006
Edmund Phelps is a former RSF visiting scholar (1993-1994), the editor of the RSF book Altruism, Morality, and Economic Theory (1975), and the recipient of multiple grants from RSF. He is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and the director of Columbia's Center on Capitalism and Society. He has…
Thomas Schelling
2005
Thomas Schelling (1921–2016) was a member of the foundation's Behavioral Economics Roundtable and a contributor to the RSF books Choice Over Time (1992) and Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment (2001). He was professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public…
Daniel Kahneman
2002
Daniel Kahneman is a member of the foundation's Behavioral Economics Roundtable, the co-editor of the RSF book Well-Being (2003), and the recipient of multiple RSF grants. He is professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, author of the bestselling book Thinking, Fast…
George A. Akerlof
2001
George Akerlof is the Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and University Professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He was the Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2001 and the co-author of several books, including Animal…
Robert Solow
1987
Robert Solow is the Russell Sage Foundation’s Robert K. Merton Scholar and Institute Professor Emeritus at M.I.T. He was a visiting scholar at the foundation from 1999–2000 and became the Merton Scholar in 2001. Known in particular for his work on theories of economic growth, Solow is the recipient of the John Bates Clark…
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