Leading House Best Paper Award

The Award aims to honour the best published paper in a refereed journal on a topic related to the Leading House VPET-ECON. Two additional prizes are awarded as runner-up prizes. The reputation of the journal is considered as one of the main factors for awarding the prize.

Eligible for the award are all papers published in a journal in 2024 that are authored or co-authored by a person working in the Leading House or at one of the two chairs of the Leading House Directors. Additionally, papers of PhD-students admitted to the Leading House Course Programme and presenting in the Friday Lunch Talk on VPET Economics are also eligible. Eligible papers must have been published in the Leading House Working Paper Series until one year after employment at one of the Leading House chairs has ended, or for external PhD-students until one year after the Course Programme or PhD is finished.

The jury awarding the Leading House Best Paper Awards consists of the members of the Advisory Board of the Leading House.

Award Announcement 2025 (PDF, 228 KB)

We congratulate the winner of the Leading House Best Paper Award 2025, Daniel Goller, for his paper Reaching for gold! The impact of a positive reputation shock on career choice (co-authored with Stefan C. Wolter), published in the European Economic Review (link).

The runner-up prizes 2025 are awarded to Daniel Goller and Christian Gschwendt for their paper This time it’s different – Generative artificial intelligence and occupational choice  (co-authored with Stefan C. Wolter), published in Labour Economics (link)...

... and to Christian Gschwendt for his paper How scary is the risk of automation? Evidence from a large-scale survey experiment (co-authored with Maria A. Cattaneo and Stefan C. Wolter), published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (link).

We congratulate the winner of the Leading House Best Paper Award 2024, Damiano Pregaldini, for his paper How middle-skilled workers adjust to immigration: the role of occupational skill specificity (co-authored with Uschi Backes-Gellner), published in International Journal of Manpower in 2024 (link).

The runner-up prizes 2024 are awarded to Fabienne Kiener for her paper The role of occupational skill sets in the digital transformation: how IT progress shapes returns to specialization and social skills (co-authored with Christian Eggenberger and Uschi Backes-Gellner), published in Journal of Business Economics in 2024 (link)...

... and to Maria Zumbuehl for her paper Private tutoring and academic achievement in a selective education system (co-authored with Stefanie Hof and Stefan C. Wolter), published in Education Economics in 2024 (link).

Best Paper Award Ceremony 2024: