Allan G. Gruchy Graduate Fellowship in Economics

• 2014-2015: Matthew Staiger and Carlos Van Hombeeck
  2015-2016: Matthew Staiger and Mateo Uribe-Castro
  2016-2017: Matthew Staiger, Cody Tuttle and Mateo Uribe-Castro
  2017-2018: Tomohiro Hara and Mateo Uribe-Castro
  2018-2019: Anu Sivaram and Mateo Uribe-Castro
  2020-2021: Luis Jaramillo and Anu Sivaram
  2021-2022: Kartikeya Batra and Qiyao Zhou
  2022-2023: Alessandra Palazzo
  2023-2024: Kartikeya Batra
  2024-2025: Luis Felipe Jaramillo
  2025-2026: Adam Tucker

All-S.T.A.R. Graduate School Fellowship

• 2017-2018: Prateik Dalmia

BSOS Dean's Research Initiative

• 2015: Dun Jia, Sai Luo, Matthew Staiger, and Yichen Zhou
  2017: Rodrigo Heresi, Xuezhen Tao, and Cody Tuttle
  2018: Ibraheem Catovic, Erika Domotor, and Tomohiro Hara
  2019: Jiankun Chen, Sai Luo, Anusuya Sivaram, Palak Suri, and Xinlu Yao
  2020: Julia Brown, Seula Kim, Jun Hee Kwak, Mario Leccese, Elif Osun, Wenbo Yu, and George Zuo
  2021: Mario Leccese and Yi Liu
  2022: Shanglyu Deng, Seula Kim, Taylor Landon, Zhenxun Liu,The Linh Bao Nguyen, Elif Osun, and Ece Yegane
  2023: Kartikeya Batra, Cameron Conrad, Jake Kramer, Mario Leccese, Alejandra Montoya-Agudelo, Michael Navarrete, Alessandra Palazzo, Ece Yegane, and Mariana Yoder
  2024: Gabriel Cruz Fernandez, Jake Kramer, Chenyu Mao, Shirley Redroban, Emily Schuller, Tereza Varejkova, Tri Vu, Jonathan Yu, and Mengyi Zhong
  2025: Arseniy Braslavskiy, Haoyuan Chen, Gabriel Cruz Fernandez, Siqin Ding, Kanat Isakov, Yujin Lee, Quang Pham, Tyler Pike, Mariana Sans, Haoran Wang, and Qian Wang

Economics Department Third Year Paper Prize

• 2007: First Prize: Ethan Ilzetzki; Second Prize: Sebastian Miller and Jeta Menkulasi
  2008: First Prize: Craig Garthwaite; Second Prize: Seth Freedman and Ryan Banerjee
  2009: First Prize: Javier Bianchi and Tim Moore; Second Prize: Teresa Fort and Terence Johnson
  2010: First Prize: Sushant Acharya and Julien Bengui; Second Prize: Lisa Dettling
  2011: First Prize: Orhan Torul; Second Prize: Leland Dod Crane
  2012: First Prize: Jonathan Kreamer and Matija Jancec
  2013: First Prize: Miguel Sarzosa Castillo and Lixin Tang; Second Prize: Giordano Palloni and Yiqun Chen
  2014: First Prize: Hector Lopez Carbajal and Camilo Morales-Jimenez; Second Prize: Jingting Fan and Ricardo Espinoza Gonzalez
  2015: First Prize: Joonkyu Choi; Second Prize: Emekcan Yucel
  2016: First Prize: Riley Wilson; Second Prize: Lucas Goodman and Veronika Penciakova
  2017: First Prize: Cody Tuttle; Second Prize: Fernando Saltiel
  2018: First Prize: Camila Galindo; Second Prize: Gonzalo Garcia and Xinlu Yao
  2019: First Prize: Danny Kolliner and George Zuo; Second Prize: Hung Yui Cheung, Kenji Higa-Flores, Jun Hee Kwak, and Yi Liu
  2020: First Prize: Edward Olivares; Second Prize: Panos Dimitrellos and Luke Pardue
  2021: First Prize: Ece Yegane; Second Prize: Seho Kim and Mario Leccese
  2022: First Prize: Luis Jaramillo; Second Prize: Qiyao Zhou and Weizheng Lai
  2023: First Prize: Cameron Conrad
  2024: First Prize: Tri Vu; Second Prize: Tyler Pike, Ruibing Su and Haoran Wang
  2025: First Prize: Adam Tucker; Second Prize: Ko Miura

First-Year Summer Research Fellowship

• 2019: Keaton Ellis and Seho Kim
  2021: Ziqiao Liu and Arseniy Braslavskiy
  2022: Ruibing Su
  2023: Jingyi Xing

Flagship Fellowship

• 2011: Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc
  2020: Cameron Conrad and Erica Ryan
  2021: Emily Schueller
  2025: Neel Lal

Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship

• 2014-2015: Jeronimo Carballo

Graduate School Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award

• 2019-2020: Jun Hee Kwak

Graduate School Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

• 2019-2020: Anu Sivaram
  2020-2021: Yi Liu and Elena Ramirez
  2021-2022: Keaton Ellis and Ziqiao Liu
  2023-2024: Sara Ellen King

Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship

• 2008: Tim Moore and Seth Freedman
  2009: Daniel Hernaiz and Terence Johnson
  2010: Julien Bengui and Leland Dod Crane
  2011: Alan Finkelstein-Shapiro and Hatice Ture
  2012: Nona Karalashvili and Haishan Yuan
  2013: Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc and Miguel Sarzosa Castillo
  2014: Jingting Fan and Hector Lopez Carbajal
  2015: Glenn Blackwood
  2016: Yong Paek and Matthew Staiger
  2017: Cody Tuttle and Di Wang
  2018: George Zuo
  2019: Danny Kolliner, Jun Hee Kwak, Palak Suri, and Shihangyin Zhang
  2020: Dheeraj Chaudhary and Kai Chung Oue
  2021: Seho Kim, Mario Leccese, The Linh Bao Nguyen, Alvaro Silva Uribe
  2022: Shuqing Chen, Luis Jaramillo and Qiyao Zhou
  2023: Arseniy Braslavskiy, Haoyuan Chen, Haoran Wang, Qian Wang
  2024: Mariana Sans and Ruibing Su
  2025: Adam Tucker
  2026: Yujin Lee and Yun-Peng Lu

Hilda Moskowitz Graduate Fellowship in Economics

• Fall 2011: Orhan Torul
  Spring 2012: Cesar Sosa Padilla
  Fall 2013-Spring 2014: Carlos Van Hombeeck
  Fall 2014-Spring 2015: Thomas Hegland
  Fall 2017-Spring 2018: George Zuo
  Fall 2019-Spring 2020: Luke Pardue
  Fall 2020-Spring 2021: Luke Pardue
  Fall 2021-Spring 2022: Taylor Landon
  Fall 2022-Spring 2023: Taylor Landon
  Fall 2023-Spring 2024: Taylor Landon
  Fall 2024-Spring 2025: Haoyuan Chen
  Fall 2025-Spring 2026: Jorge Klinnert Vlachopoulos

International Graduate Research Fellowship

• 2015: Xuezhen Tao

K.P. and Jayalakshmi Muddappa Graduate Award for Economics

• Fall 2015: Shanjukta Nath
  Fall 2016: Palak Suri
  Fall 2017: Mrinmoyee Chatterjee
  Fall 2018: Kartikeya Batra
  Fall 2019: Palak Suri
  Fall 2020: Adnan Barazi
  Fall 2021: Emily Schueller
  Fall 2022: Hariharan Jayashankar
  Fall 2023: Satyaki Sensarma
  Fall 2024: Sankha Mitra
  Fall 2025: Satyaki Sensarma

Maryland Population Research Center Summer Grant

• 2019: Sai Luo

Melville J. Ulmer Graduate Fellowship in Economics

• 2014-2015: Bryan Hardy, Xuezhen Tao
  2015-2016: Rodrigo Heresi
  2016-2017: Matthew Staiger
  2017-2018: Camila Galindo Pardo
  2018-2019: George Zuo
  2019-2020: Dheeraj Chaudhary and Macarena Kutscher
  2020-2021: Shanglyu Deng, Keaton Ellis
  2021-2022: Weizheng Lai and Luis Jaramillo
  2022-2023: Cameron Conrad, Robert Benjamin Rodriguez
  2023-2024: First Prize: Tyler Pike; Second Prize: Mariana Sans and Haoran Wang
  2024-2025: Adam Tucker and Jingyi Xing
  2025-2026: First Prize: Martim Leitao; Second Prize: Nicolas Berlinksi and Yun-Peng Lu

President’s Fellowship

• 2025: DeAndre Johnson and Daniel Thomas

Roger and Alicia Betancourt Fellowship in Applied Economics

• 2010: Terence Johnson
  2011: Justin Burkett and Tim Moore
  2012: Alan Finkelstein-Shapiro
  2013: Hei Sing Chan and Shu Lin Wee
  2014: Weijia (Daisy) Dai and Kristian Lopez Vargas
  2015: Stephanie Rennane
  2016: Robert Kulick
  2017: Haomin Yan
  2018: Cody Tuttle
  2019: Seth Murray
  2020: Matthew Staiger
  2021: Heehyun Lim
  2022: Zu Yao Hong
  2023: Rachel Nesbit
  2024: Alessandra Palazzo
  2025: Siqin Ding

University of Maryland Distinguished Dissertation Award

• 2013: Teresa Fort
  2021: Cody Tuttle

Visiting Day Poster Competition

• 2015: First Prize: Youngjin Yun; Honorable Mention: Hector Lopez Carbajal
  2016: First Prize: Riley Wilson; Honorable Mention: Joonkyu Choi and Matthew Staiger
  2017: First Prize: Prateik Dalmia; Honorable Mention: Karam Jo and Heath Witzen
  2018: First Prize: Matthew Staiger; Honorable Mention: Seth Murray and Yongjoon Park
  2019: First Prize: George Zuo (co-authored with Daniel Kolliner). Honorable Mention: Tomohiro Hara
  2023: First Prize: Rachel Nesbit; Honorable Mention: Kartikeya Batra and Weizheng Lai
  2024: First Prize: Tereza Varejova
  2025: First Prize: Arseniy Braslavskiy; Honorable Mention: Ruibing Su and Jingyi Xing

Wylie Dissertation Fellowship

• 2006-2007: Emily Owens
  2007-2008: Nazgul Jenish and Thayer Morrill
  2008-2009: Ethan Ilzetzki and Antoine Gervais
  2009-2010: Seth Freedman and Quynh Nguyen
  2010-2011: Diether Beuermann and Javier Bianchi
  2011-2012: Sushant Acharya and Julien Bengui
  2012-2013: Orhan Torul
  2014-2015: Ben Zou
  2015-2016: Hector Lopez Carbajal
  2016-2017: Jingting Fan
  2017-2018: Joonkyu Choi and Sungho Noh
  2019-2020: Prateik Dalmia and Yongjoon Park
  2020-2021: Donggyu Lee
  2021-2022: Daniel Kolliner
  2023-2024: Alvaro Silva Uribe
  2024-2025: Luis Felipe Jaramillo and Weizheng Lai
  2026-2027: Haoyuan Chen and Tri Vu

• Other University of Maryland Awards

• 2010: Sheri Pruitt Walker, Dr. James W. Longest Memorial Award for Social Science Research
  2012: Nona Karalashvili, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Award in Recognition of Dr. Peter Murrell's Service as Economics Department Chair
  2024: Chan Kim, CIBE Summer Research Award, Center for Global Business, Smith School of Business

 

Abell Award in Urban Policy

• 2017: George Zuo

Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) Dissertation Grant

• 2010: Seth Freedman
  2011: Abby Alpert

American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) Summer Research Fellowship

• 2015: Yiqun Chen
  2016: Edith Laget

Americas Center Graduate Dissertation Internship, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

• 2009: Javier Bianchi
  2010: Cesar Sosa Padilla
  2013: Alvaro Pedraza
  2014: Pablo Cuba Borda

APPAM PhD Dissertation Award

• 2021: George Zuo

BECAS Chile Graduate Fellowship

• 2011: Ricardo Espinoza
  2015: Gonzalo Garcia
  2019: Catalina Morales, Maria Riquelme Gajardo, Alvaro Silva Uribe

Center for Retirement Research Dissertation Fellowship

• 2009: Gabriel Lara Ibarra
  2010: Tim Moore
  2018: Seth Murray

Chiang Ching-kuo Doctoral Fellowship

• 2022: Ming Fang

eBay Policy Scholar at the University of Maryland

• 2014-2015: Dun Calvin Jia
  2015-2016: Xuezhen Tao
  2016-2017: Yue Chao
  2017-2018: Xinlu Yao
  2018-2019: Gustavo Saraiva

• Economic Club of Washington Doctoral Research Fellowship

• 2020: Seula Kim, Yi Liu, and Shihangyin Zhang
• 2006: Aparajita Goyal and Emily Owens
  2007: Ethan IIzetzki and Melissa Mclnerney
  2008: Matthew Chesnes
  2009: Agustin Roitman
  2010: Abby Alpert and Kyle Handley
  2012: Jeff Borowitz and Lisa Dettling
  2016: Robert Kulick and Riley Wilson
  2018: Sai Luo, Yongjoon Park, and Veronika Penciakova
  2019: Matthew Staiger
  2020: Xinlu Yao

Economy of Francesco Academy Fellowship

• 2023: Alessandra Palazzo

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Dissertation Fellowship

• 2022: Zu Yao Hong

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Dissertation Internship

• 2022: Seula Kim

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Dissertation Internship

• Summer 2013: Shu Lin Wee
  2016: Edith Laget

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Dissertation Internship

• Summer 2011: Julien Bengui

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Dissertation Internship

• Summer 2009: Cesar Sosa Padilla

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Dissertation Fellowship

• Summer 2025: Siqin Ding

Federal Reserve Board Dissertation Fellowship, Washington D.C.

• Summer 2007: Matthew Chesnes and Ethan IIzetzki
  Summer 2009: Ana Abras and Jeta Menkulasi
  Summer 2010: Javier Bianchi
  Fall 2011: Sushant Acharya and Yasin Mimir
  Summer 2015: Yiqun Chen
  Summer 2023: Seho Kim and Alvaro Silva Uribe
  Summer 2025: Mariana Sans
  Summer 2026: Nabil Ryandiansyah

Gerontelis Foundation Graduate Study Scholarship

• 2018: Panagiotis Dimitrellos

Google Policy Fellowship

• 2022: Jake Kramer

Graduate Research Award from the Airport Cooperative Research Program

• 2017: Yongjoon Park

IMF Summer Internship

• 2020: Seula Kim, Yi Liu, and Shihangyin Zhang
  2026: Giovanni Bardone

Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship

• 2017: Prateik Dalmia and Mateo Uribe-Castro

Inter-American Development Bank Research Grant

• 2012: Miguel Sarzosa and Alan Finkelstein Shapiro

Kauffmann Dissertation Fellowship

• 2015: Joonkyu Choi
  2017: Karam Jo and Matthew Staiger

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

• 2026-2027: Haoyuan Chen

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

• 2018: Ian Chadd
  2020: Xinlu Yao
  2021: Yi Liu
  2022: Hung Yui (Paul) Cheung and Keaton Ellis
  2022-2023: Zhenxun Liu

National Science Foundation, East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellow

• 2010: Kyle Handley

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

• 2016: Ryan Malitz (honorable mention) and Matthew Staiger (honorable mention)
  2018: George Zuo
  2019: Victoria Perez-Zetune
  2020: Cameron Conrad, Amber Flaharty and Erica Ryan
  2024: Akhil Saxena

• Seoul National University Alumni Association USA Scholarship

• 2018: Seula Kim

Seoul National University Alumni Association Washington DC Scholarship

• 2019: Seula Kim

Sloan Foundation Interdisciplinary Transportation Fellowship

• 2025-2026: Arseniy Braslavskiy

Washington Center for Equitable Growth Dissertation Scholar

• 2020: Matthew Staiger

Washington Center for Equitable Growth Grant

• 2012: Lisa Dettling
  2013: Alvaro Pedraza
  2014: Ben Zou
  2015: Ricardo Espinoza Gonzalez
  2019: Cody Tuttle and Karam Jo

• Western Economic Association International Graduate Student Dissertation Workshop

• 2012: Lisa Dettling
  2013: Alvaro Pedraza
  2014: Ben Zou
  2015: Ricardo Espinoza Gonzalez
  2019: Cody Tuttle and Karam Jo

Other Student Awards

• 2008: Matthew Chesnes, Dissertation Prize, Journal of Applied Econometrics
• 2008: Matias Herrera-Dappe, Best Student Paper Award, 31st IAEE International Conference, Istanbul
• 2008: Mircea Trandafir, Best Paper Award, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference
• 2010: Javier Bianchi, Best Paper Award, XV Workshop in Dynamic Macroeconomics, Vigo, Spain
• 2010: Enes Sunel, Best Student Paper Award, 15th Annual LACEA Meeting, November 2010
• 2011: Tim Moore, First Prize Travel Scholarship for Best Student Paper submitted to the International Society of Drug Policy Annual Conference
• 2011: Teresa Fort, Top Ph.D. Submission, Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference
• 2012-13: Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi, Kauffman Foundation Research Grant
• 2013: Ben Zou, Research Papers Program Award from the Employment and Training Administration
• 2014: Stephanie Rennane, Mathematica Disability Research Consortium Summer Experiential Learning Fellowship
• 2014: Álvaro La Parra Pérez, Best Paper Award, European School of New Institutional Economics (ENSIE), Cargèse, France
• 2018: Yongjoon Park, Robert F. Lanzilotti Prize for best paper in antitrust economics, International Industrial Organization Conference (joint with Prof. Andrew Sweeting and Jun Zhang)
• 2021: Ferda Erturk, Interdisciplinary Transportation Engineering, Economics, and Policy PhD Fellowship Program
• 2023: Rachel Lee Nesbit, National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Graduate Research Fellowship
• 2024: Chan Kim, CIBE Summer Research Award, Center for Global Business, Smith School of Business
• 2025-2026: Liam Puknys, Adam Smith Fellowship, Mercatus Institute, George Mason University
• 2026-2027: Dali Tsakadze, P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship