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Victor R. Fuchs Award
2009
Victor R. Fuchs Research Award Recipients Named — 2009
The RAND Corporation has presented the second Victor R. Fuchs Research Award to a team from Yale and Queen's University for publishing the best research paper with the potential to spawn new research in an underdeveloped area of health economics or health policy. The $10,000 prize has been awarded to Jason M. Fletcher of Yale University and Steven F. Lehrer of Queen's University.
Their prize-winning paper is titled "The Effects of Adolescent Health on Educational Outcomes: Causal Evidence using 'Genetic Lotteries' between Siblings". The paper was published in Forum for Health Economics & Policy, an innovative online journal devoted to timely and important health care issues. It can be found at www.bepress.com/fhep.
The award will be given annually by the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND in honor of Victor R. Fuchs, a member of the Forum's editorial board. Research by Fuchs demonstrated that economic analysis yielded valuable insight not only about medical resource use, but also health-related behaviors. Fuchs is a Stanford University economics professor who is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a former president of American Economics Association. Funding for the award is provided by the Bing Center's endowment.
Previous Awards
RAND Presents First Victor R. Fuchs Research Award to Team of Economists from Carnegie Mellon University — 2007
The Victor S. Fuchs Research Award for Health Economics, which carries a $10,000 prize, has been granted to researchers Martin Gaynor, Jian Li, and William B. Vogt, all of Carnegie Mellon University, for a paper examining the effects of increased drug copayments on spending for drugs and other medical care.
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