Leading House Best Paper Award 2020

We congratulate the winner of the Leading House Best Paper Award 2020, Maria Zumbühl, for her paper Parental involvement and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences, attitudes and personality traits (co-authored with Thomas Dohmen and Gerard Pfann), published in The Economic Journal in 2020 (link).

The runner-up prizes 2020 are awarded to Patrick Lehnert for his paper Employment of R&D personnel after an educational supply shock: Effects of the introduction of Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland (co-authored with Curdin Pfister and Uschi Backes-Gellner), published in Labour Economics in 2020 (link)...

...and to Damiano Pregaldini for his paper Girls' preferences for STEM and the effects of classroom gender composition: New evidence from a natural experiment (co-authored with Uschi Backes-Gellner and Gerald Eisenkopf), published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization in 2020 (link).