Stefanie Stantcheva Wins John Bates Clark Medal

Stefanie Stantcheva of Harvard University, a research associate in the Public Economics, Political Economy, and Economic Fluctuations and Growth programs, has won the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal, awarded annually by the American Economic Association to an American economist under the age of 40 who has made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.

Stantcheva has made wide-ranging contributions in public finance, studying the effects of taxation on innovation, immigration, and investments in education. She has also developed novel survey and experimental methods to quantify perceptions of economic policy and the factors that determine them.

The prize citation notes that her “masterful application of innovative tools ... has revisited classic questions in public finance and produced new insights into optimal tax policy and the general effects of taxes on economic behavior.”