Leading House Best Paper Award 2012

We congratulate the winner of the Leading House Best Paper Award 2012, Dolores Messer, for her paper (co-authored by Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann, and Stefan Wolter) The Impact of an Adult Education Voucher Program: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment published in the Journal of Public Economics 2012 (link) (with addition mention of her paper (co-authored by Sascha Becker and Stefan Wolter) "A Gift is Not Always a Gift: Heterogeneity and Long-term Effects in a Gift Exchange Experiment" published in Economica 2012).

The runner-up prizes 2012 are awarded to Regula Geel for her paper (co-authored by Uschi Backes-Gellner) Earning while Learning: When and How Student Employment is Beneficial published in LABOUR 2012 (link)...

...and Samuel Muehlemann for his paper (co-authored by Romy Braendli and Stefan Wolter) Invest in the best or compensate the weak? An empirical analysis of the heterogeneity of a firm's provision of human capital published in Evidence-Based HRM 2012 (link). Congratulations!