Graduate Fellowships and Scholarships

Caves Dissertation Fellowship

This fellowship was established by Douglas W. Caves (PhD, Economics, 1980) and Sherry A. Caves to support graduate students in the Department of Economics at UW-Madison doing dissertation level empirical research in the doctoral program. The intent of this fellowship is to reward and distinguish excellence and scholastic merit in the doctoral program.

Michael Nattinger
2024-2025
Kensuke Sakamoto
2024-2025
Hyunkeong Lim
2024-2025
Kevin Hunt
2023-2024
Tianli Xia
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019

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Christensen Dissertation Fellowship in Empirical Economics

This fellowship was established by Lau and Dianne Christensen. Lau was a faculty member at UW-Madison from 1967 to 1987, and Dianne was a Visitor in the Economics Department for several years in the 1980s. This fellowship is awarded to a student doing an empirical dissertation.

Kevin Hunt
2024-2025
Luming Chen
2023-2024
Sarah Waldfogel
2022-2023
Cici McNamara
2021-2022
Sandra Spirovska
2020-2021
Renata Gaineddenova
2019-2020

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Christensen Scholarship in Empirical Economics

Lau and Diane Christensen established this scholarship. Lau was a faculty member here from 1967 to 1987, and Dianne was a Visitor in the Department for several years in the 1980s. The purpose of this joint student-faculty award is to A) encourage and support research by PhD students doing empirical work with contemporary estimation methods, and B) to support faculty who serve as mentors for Ph.D. students doing dissertations.

Manisha Jain
2024-2025
Kevin Hunt
2023-2024
Hyun Lim
2022-2023
Long Hong
2021-2022
Minseon Park
2020-2021
Cici McNamara
2019-2020
2018-2019
2018-2019
2017-2018

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Culbertson Field Paper Scholarship

The Culbertson Scholarship was established with a generous contribution from Dr. Francis Culbertson, in memory of her late husband, UW Madison Economics Professor John M. Culbertson. The scholarship is for the PhD student who writes the best field paper.

Jack Collison
2024-2025
Michael Nattinger
2023-2024
Xian Wu
2022-2023
Mengqi Wang
2021-2022
Katsuhiro Komatsu
2021-2022
2020-2021
Alan Yang
2019-2020
2018-2019
2018-2019
2017-2018
2017-2018

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David Edwin Davies Dissertation Fellowship

The David Edwin Davies Dissertation Fellowship is based on outstanding research potential and overall research excellence. This fellowship was established by a trust created by Richard Davies (BA, Economics and Political Science, 1979).

Cassi Kirkland
2024-2025
Jingnan Liu
2023-2024
April Meehl
2022-2023
Rosemary Kaiser
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019

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Alice S. Gengler Dissertation Fellowship

The late Alice Gengler received her BA in Economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1927. The Alice Gengler Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship is made possible by the generosity of Alice Gengler and her family.  It is awarded for excellence in research.

Duong Dang
2024-2025
Arjun Jain
2024-2025
Zaure Aitulova
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019

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JPGI funded Scholarships and Fellowships

The JPGI honors UW-Madison alumna Juli Plant Grainger.  The following fellowships and scholarships are made possible by a substantial investment in the Department by David W. Grainger and the Grainger Foundation.

JPGI Summer Fellowships

These fellowships are funded by the Juli Plant Grainger Institute for Economic Research.  They are awarded to students with unusually promising research proposals. (Previous Winners)

JPGI Teaching Assistant Scholarships

These scholarships are funded by the Juli Plant Grainger Institute for Economic Research.  They are awarded to students with exceptional classroom performance as a teaching assistant in any Economics course, either graduate or undergraduate. (Previous Winners)

JPGI Outstanding Dissertator Fellowship

These fellowships are funded by the Juli Plant Grainger Institute for Economic Research.  They are awarded to students with exceptionally promising dissertations. (Previous Winners)

Donald D. Hester Dissertation Fellowship

This fellowship is named after the late Donald Hester, a UW Madison Economics Professor from 1968 to 2000. Preference is given to students who excel in teaching and conduct research in macroeconomics.

Nisha Chikhale
2023-2024
Wentao Zhou
2022-2023
Mark Rempel
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020

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Susan B. Kocin Scholarship for Labor Economics

This scholarship, funded by the Kocin family, is awarded to promote women in the field of labor economics.

Hyunkyeong Lim
2021-2022
Jingnan (Jane) Liu
2020-2021
Minseon Park
2019-2020
Sandra Spirovska
2018-2019
2017-2018

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Walter A. Morton Dissertation Fellowship

This fellowship supports a meritorious doctoral student in the Department of Economics and was created through a fund established in 1984 by Rosalie Morton (BS 1928), widow of late UW Economics Professor Walter Morton (Ph.D. 1927), and her son Stephen D. Morton (Ph.D. 1962).

Sharada Dharmasankar
2023-2024
Chen Lyu
2022-2023
Andrey Zubanov
2020-2021

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Mary Claire Aschenbrener Phipps Dissertation Fellowship

This fellowship was established by Charles Phipps in honor of his late wife, Mary Claire Phipps (BA ’51, Economics) to attract more female economists to the University of Wisconsin to inspire the next generation of female economists. The fellowship supports an outstanding female doctoral student.

Andrea Franco Hernandez
2024-2025
Shannon Sledz
2023-2024
2024-2025
Sarah Waldfogel
2023-2024
Elise Marifian
2022-2023
Lois Miller
2021-2022
2020-2021

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Dorothy Rice Dissertation Fellowship

The Dorothy Rice Dissertation Fellowship was created in memory of health care economics pioneer and UW Alumna Dorothy Rice (Ph.D. 1941) who left a lasting legacy on the Federal Health Care Policy. Her research paved way for the creation of the Medicare program. The fellowship is awarded to an outstanding doctoral student in the Department of Economics.

Xian Wu
2024-2025
Xinyi Peng
2023-2024
2022-2023
Anna Trubnikova
2021-2022
2020-2021

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Robock Scholarship in Empirical or Experimental Economics

The late Dr. Stefan Robock established this scholarship.  Professor Robock received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1938. He did graduate work at Wisconsin and Harvard.  The purpose of Dr. Robock’s gift is to support students and research by students and faculty in the Department of Economics, with preference being given to those doing empirical and/or field research or working in the field of experimental economics.

Andrea Franco
2024-2025
Sarah Bass
2023-2024
Katsuhiro Komatsu
2022-2023
Jonathan McClure
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018

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Shih Graduate Student Fellowship (Ko and Ying Shih Dissertation Fellowship)

May Shih and Willy Shih have honored their parents, Ko and Ying Shih, by establishing a fellowship in their names to assist graduate students in the Department of Economics. Ko Shih received his PhD in Economics (1950) and Ying Shih received her PhD in Applied Statistics (1952) at UW-Madison. Both Ko and Ying Shih were international students, so their children, May Shih and Willy Shih, would like the funds to be used for a dissertation fellowship with a slight preference given to international students.

Mengqi Wang
2023-2024
Jason Choi
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018

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Mary Sue and Mike Shannon Dissertation Fellowship

Elizabeth Llanes
2024-2025
2023-2024
2022-2023
Joel McMurry
2021-2022

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Richard E. Stockwell Dissertation Fellowship

This fellowship was established by a trust created by Richard E. “Archie” Stockwell. Archie received his B.S. in 1940 from the University of Wisconsin. The fellowship is awarded to a graduate student who has demonstrated excellence in research.

Katsuhiro Komatsu
2023-2024
Shilong Sun
2022-2023
Natalia Serna
2021-2022
2020-2021
2018-2019

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Walker Family Dissertation Fellowship

This fellowship, offered by the Department of Economics, was established by a trust created by Willard T. Walker (BA Economics 1955) and Willard T. Walker Jr. (BA Economics 1984) and Molly Walker Allen (BA Journalism and Mass Communication 1989) to recognize outstanding research potential and overall research excellence. The annual one semester dissertation fellowship is designed to support a doctoral student in Economics.

Philip Coyle
2024-2025
Qin Lin
2024-2025
Hoyoung Yoo
2023-2024
Cody Kallen
2022-2023
Shuhei Otani
2021-2022
Nicolas Badaracco
2020-2021

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Richard A. Meese Dissertation Fellowship

Richard A. Meese (Ph.D. 1978) established this fund to attract and support outstanding graduate students in the Department of Economics.

Karla Hernandez
2024-2025

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