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Michael Coon<\/strong><\/a> (PhD 2012) is the winner of the biennial Eckstein Paper Prize given by the Eastern Economic Association (EEA).<\/p>\n

He received the Prize for his paper \u201cWalking ATMs: Do Crime Rates Affect Remittances of Mexican Migrants in the United States?<\/a>\u201d Eastern Economic Journal<\/em> (Winter 2015, Volume 41, Issue 1, pp 6\u201323).<\/p>\n

The Eckstein Prize honors Otto Eckstein, a Harvard professor and former president of the EEA. It is awarded biennially to the best article in the Eastern Economic Journal<\/em> and Mike won for the period 2015 -16. The Prize and a $1,000 award will be presented at the 2018 EEA conference in Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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