PhD Student Awards

Martin and Margaret Lee Prizes in Economics
The Martin and Margaret Lee Prizes in Economics were named by John Lee ’68 in honor of his parents. Each prize is given to the highest scores on the First-Year Core Exams.

2025 Recipients

Highest Score Earned on the Theory of Income Exam

  • Neel Lahiri
  • Ayman Moazzam
  • Kyunghee Oh

Highest Score Earned on the Price Theory Exam

  • Sean McMahon
  • Matthew Neils
  • Kyunghee Oh

Highest Score Earned on the Empirical Analysis Exam

  • Ariel Goldszmidt

Highest Score Earned on the Theory of Income Exam

2024 Recipients

  • Pedro Adami Oliboni
  • Jason Hong
  • Ken Miyahara Coello

Highest Score Earned on the Price Theory Exam

2024 Recipients

  • Pedro Adami Oliboni
  • Tyler Patterson

Highest Score Earned on the Empirical Analysis Exam

2024 Recipient

  • Ragini Jain
George S. Tolley Prize
The George S. Tolley Prize was created to recognize a third-year doctoral student whose research paper demonstrates the potential for the impact of economic analysis on policy.

2025 Recipient

Ishira Shrivatsa for "College Credit Policies and Student Outcomes"

2024 Recipient

  • Craig Chikis, for "Trade and Decelerating Reallocation"
Yiran Fan Memorial Prize
The Yirin Fan Memorial Prize is named for the late PhD student and is presented in admiration of his generous spirit and outstanding dedication. This prize is awarded to a student nominated by their peers who best personifies establishing an open and nurturing environment in the fields of economic dynamics, macroeconomics, or financial economics.

2025 Recipient

José M. Quintero

2024 Recipient

  • Manav Chaudhary

2023 Recipient

  • Marco Loseto

2022 Recipients 

  • Will Cassidy
  • Aditya Chaudhry

2021 Recipient

  • Simon Oh
Other Awards

2025 Recipient

  • Pedro Adami Oliboni

2025 Benjamin Bloom Dissertation Completion Fellowship

  • Michael G. Cuna

2025 Michael and Ling Markovitz Dissertation Completion Fellowship

  • Raman Singh Chhina

2025 Provost’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship

  • Ed Jee
  • Haruka Uchida

Read more on the SSD website.

Sofia Shchukina, a PhD student in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, was awarded funding for the 2023-24 academic year as part of UChicagoGRAD's PhD Advance internship program for her work with NPR's Planet Money.

The PhD Advance program supports students in building new skills and applying their advanced-degree training in an area of professional interest in academia, industry, nonprofits, or government. The internships are student driven and engage students’ academic work. With coaching from UChicagoGRAD, PhD students create their own projects based on their specific interests and needs. They receive a $6,000 stipend for an internship lasting 300 hours.    

The PhD Advance program prioritizes applicants who design customized, project-based internships. Project-based internships are those that engage the intern in a coherent set of responsibilities that progressively build toward a specific deliverable or outcome. Internships involving unrelated, ad-hoc tasks are not considered project-based opportunities. The program also gives preference to internship projects at organizations at which the applicant has no previous affiliation.

For more information about the program and to apply, visit grad.uchicago.edu.

2023 Recipients

  • Deniz Dutz
  • Ashton Pallottini
  • Sofia Shchukina