Simon Kuznets Essay Award
Each year the department gives this award to the student who is deemed to have written the best economics paper dealing with a quantitative aspect of economics.
| Graduate | Undergraduate | |
| 2007 | Eric Tyhurst | |
| 2006 | Daniel Gleitz | Jamie M. Brown |
| 2005 | Athena Therodorou | Justin Sabin |
| 2004 | Brian Buckles | |
| 2003 | Kathleen Early | Joshua Ulrich |
| 2002 | ||
| 2001 | Alexei Makarkin | Brooke Daly |
| 2000 | Stephen Majesky | |
| 1999 | Ling Wang | David Crowell |
| 1998 | Sondra Beverly | D. Christopher Tuitt |
| 1997 | Susan Cole | |
| 1996 | Ronita Misra | Robert Lieli |
| 1995 | Ronita Misra | Deborah Loesel |
| 1994 | David Keller Mary Wisdom |