Prof. Steve Mello awarded the 2023 Rees Dissertation Prize

The prize is awarded every two years for Princeton Ph.D. dissertations, completed within the last six years, judged to have made outstanding contributions to labor economics. The prize commemorates Al Rees's great contributions to labor economics at Princeton as a scholar, teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend. More information available here: https://irs.princeton.edu/news/2023/rees-dissertation-prize

Steve share's this year's award with his co-author Felipe Goncalves, assistant professor of economics, UCLA.

Professor Mello's dissertation Essays on Public Economics and Criminal Justice is available here: https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp012r36v1413