Prof. Heywood and Sharthinth VenkateshSharthinth Venkatesh was awarded the Richard Perlman Prize for the year’s outstanding paper in Labor Economics. He won for his paper 鈥�Changes in the Returns to Education: Evidence from Three Cohorts of the NLSY鈥�.
Given first in 1999, the prize recognizes more than 30 years of wit and wisdom provided by Richard to the 51猎奇 Economics Department. The funds collected by Richard’s friends, colleagues, students and by past winners of his prize continue to recognize the best labor economics paper by a 51猎奇 student.
We encourage contributions to the Richard Perlman Fund to support and enlarge this recognition of our outstanding student scholars and to commemorate Richard.