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Kuznets Prize for Jinyoung Kim
Jinyoung Kim received the Kuznets Prize for their article "Sex selection and fertility in a dynamic model of conception and abortion," Journal of Population Economics (2005), 18, 041-067. It was nominated to be the best published article in the Journal of Population Economics during the period 2004-2006. The Prize was awarded by Editor-in-Chief Klaus F. Zimmermann during ESPE 2007 conference in Chicago. Download the prized paper: 
Biographical Abstracts Jinyoung Kim is Associate Professor of Economics, Korea University, in Seoul, Korea. He is also a research associate of the Center of Excellence on Human Capital, Technology Transfer, and Economic Growth and Development, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received a B.A. in economics from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1994 for his dissertation "Knowledge Creation, Human Capital Investment and Economic Growth" under the guidance of Professor Gary Becker. He previously taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo for 10 years. His research interests include human capital, labor mobility, technological innovation and intellectual property rights, income inequality, and economic growth. His publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Dynamics. Download full CV:
About the Kuznets Prize The Journal of Population Economics awards the 'Kuznets Prize' for the best paper published in the Journal of Population Economics during a three years period. Papers are judged by the Editors of the Journal of Population Economics. The prize includes a cash prize of 2500 EUR, a research visit to IZA, and a reprint of the paper in the IZA Reprint Series. Simon Kuznets, a pioneer in populations economics, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and the 1971 Nobel Prize laureate in economics, died on July 10, 1985. Professor Kuznets was born 1901 in Kharkov, Russia, and came to the United States in 1922. He earned his Bachelor of Science in 1923, a Master of Arts degree in 1924 and his doctorate in 1926, all from Columbia University. During World War II he was Associate Director of the Bureau of Planning and Statistics on the War Production Board, and he served on the staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1927 to 1960. Mr. Kuznets was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania for 24 years and Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University from 1954 until he joined Harvard University in 1960. He retired in 1971 and was given the title of George F. Baker Professor Emeritus of Economics. He was a former president of the American Economic Association and the American Statistical Association. Previous Prize Winners
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