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Student Paper Prize 2021

Student Paper Prizes for Academic Year 2020-2021

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program will award three prizes in May 2021 for the best research papers addressing topics in environmental, energy, and natural resources economics:

  • Enel Endowment Prize for best undergraduate paper or senior thesis: $1,000

  • Mossavar-Rahmani Center Prize for best masters student paper: $1,500

  • Ana Aguado Prize for the best paper by a doctoral student: $2,000

Rules for the Competition:

  • Submitted papers and theses must have been completed during the 2020-2021 academic year.
  • Co-authored papers are acceptable, as long as all authors are students, whether at Harvard or elsewhere.
  • At least one author must be a student enrolled in a degree program at Harvard.
  • Papers co-authored with non-students (faculty members, consultants, outside researchers, etc.) are not allowed.
  • Competition for the masters and doctoral student prizes are open to students enrolled in a degree program in any of Harvard's schools.
  • Individual students may appear as an author for only one submitted paper.
  • It is assumed that submitted papers will have been prepared for other purposes (classes, publication, job market, etc.) It is not required nor expected that students prepare papers specifically for the prize competition.

Important Dates and Guidelines for Paper Submissions:

  • The deadline for receipt of submissions is Wednesday May 5th, at 12:00 PM NOON (U.S./Canada ET). In the interest of fairness, there will be no exceptions with regard to the deadline.
  • Please submit paper and C.V./resume in electronic form to Casey Billings, Program Coordinator for the Harvard Environmental Economics Program: Casey_Billings@hks.harvard.edu
  • Winners will be announced by Thursday May 20, 2021

Additional Information:

  • Submitted papers will be received - and the winners chosen - by a specially appointed faculty committee.
  • If a submitted paper is co-authored by two or more students in the same prize category, then each of these students will be acknowledged as a prize winner.
  • The monetary award will be presented to only one studetn - the student submitting the paper by email - regardless of co-authorship (if any). The recipient of the monetary award is free to distribute it as they wish.