The Arrow Award

iHEA annually presents the Arrow Award for best paper in health economics

Past Winners

1993 - 1st Arrow Award

Richard Hirth. Nursing Home Quality: Roles of Information and Ownership

Presenters: Kenneth J. Arrow / Richard Scheffler

1994 - 2nd Arrow Award

Phillip Cook and Michael Moore. Drinking and schooling

Presenter: Henry Aaron

1995 - 3rd Arrow Award

Jonathan Gruber. The Incidence of Mandated Maternity Benefits

Presenter: Alan Monheit

1996 - 4th Arrow Award

Martin Gaynor and Paul Gertler. Moral Hazard and Risk Spreading in Partnerships

Presenter: Mark Pauly

1997 - 5th Arrow Award

Daniel Kessler and Mark McClellan. Do Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine?

Presenter: Kenneth J. Arrow

1998 - 6th Arrow Award

Ching-To Albert Ma and Thomas G. McGuire. Optimal Health Insurance and Provider Payment

Presenter: Richard J. Arnould

1999 - 7th Arrow Award

Donna B. Gilleskie. A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Medical Care Use and Work Absence

Presenter: Roger Feldman

2000 - 8th Arrow Award

Will Dow, Tomas J. Philipson and Xavier Sala-i-Martin. Longevity Complementarities Under Competing Risks

Presenter: T. Paul Schultz

2001 - 9th Arrow Award

David M. Cutler, Mark McClellan and Joseph P. Newhouse. How Does Managed Care Do It?

Presenter: William D. White

2002 - 10th Arrow Award

Willard G. Manning and John Mullahy. Estimating Log Models: To Transform or Not to Transform?

Presenter: Joseph P. Newhouse

2003 - 11th Arrow Award

Anne Case, Darren Lubotsky and Christina Paxson. Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient

Presenter: Victor R. Fuchs

2004 - 12th Arrow Award

Kenneth Chay and Michael Greenstone. The Impact of Air Pollution on Infant Mortality: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Pollution Shocks Induced by a Recession.

Presenter: Michael Grossman

2005 - 13th Arrow Award

Edward Miguel and Michael Kremer. Worms: Identifying impacts on education and health in the presence of treatment externalities

Presenter: Thomas E. Getzen

2006 - 14th Arrow Award

Gary S. Becker, Tomas J. Philipson, and Rodrigo R. Soares.The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality

Presenter: Jane Hall

2007 - 15th Arrow Award

Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel. The Value of Health and Longevity

Presenter: TBA