The American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) is pleased to announce its 2025 ASHEcon Award Recipients. ASHEcon’s awards honor individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of health economics. The awards given at the conference highlight both burgeoning and established leaders in the health economics field. This is a great opportunity to recognize an outstanding peer, colleague, or student. We hope that by recognizing the work of individuals working in health economics, we will not only help elevate the amazing people in the field, but will continue to enable excellent research and put a spotlight on the field of health economics.
Victor R. Fuchs Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Health Economics
Winner: Martin Gaynor
ASHEcon Medal
Winner: Joshua Gottlieb
The Willard G. Manning Memorial Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics
Winners: John Mullahy and Edward C. Norton
Student Paper Award
Winner: Catherine Ishitani
ASHEcon Distinguished Service Award
Winner: Anthony LoSasso
Program Chair Award
The ASHEcon Program Chair Award recognizes an exceptional abstract in each conference program area. Congratulations to this year’s winners!
| Program Area | Winning Abstract | Authors |
| Food, Nutrition, and Physical Activity | Taxing Volume, Targeting Sugar: A Framework and Empirical Assessment of Excise Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages | Scott Kaplan, Justin S. White |
| Provider Labor Markets and Treatment Decisions | Positive Feedback, Motivation, and Physician Performance in the Emergency Department | Maximilian Pany, J. Michael McWilliams, Leila Agha, Joshua Kosowsky |
| Insurer and Hospital Behavior | Social Risk Adjustment: Evidence from Medicare | Sarah Kotb, Timothy Layton, Mark Shepard |
| Prescription Drugs | Vertical Integration and Regulated Profits in Pharmacy Benefits Market | Eric Yde |
| Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy | The Effects of Minimum Wage Increases on Health Insurance | Hyunji Ahn, Slawa Rokicki, Mark McGovern |
| Criminal Justice and Health | Post-Incarceration Mortality: Individual Social, Economic, and Health Risks | Laura Dague, Marguerite Burns |
| Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illegal Substances | Time for Mental Healthcare: Evidence from Paid Sick Leave Mandates | Matthew D. Eisenberg, Yimin Ge, Ezra Golberstein, Johanna Catherine Maclean |
| Mental health | The Impact of Behavioral Health Parity on Suicide Attempts Among U.S. Military Beneficiaries | Jangho Yoon |
| Maternal, sexual, and reproductive health | Pregnancy at 35 and Beyond: Is It Time to Redefine the Geriatric Pregnancy Age? | Devoja Ganguli |
| Child and Infant Health | Direct and Indirect Spillover Effects of Provider Vaccination Facilitation | Peter R. Thingholm, Julie Berry Cullen, Agne Suziedelyte, Maria Knoth Humlum |
| Competition in Health Care Markets | Financial Ties, Market Structure, Commercial Prices, and Medical Director Compensation in the US Dialysis Industry: 2005 – 2019 | Xuyang Xia, Wanrong Deng, Paul Eliason, Riley League, Ryan McDevitt, James W. Roberts, Heather Wong |
| Health and Development | The Impacts of Terrorist Attacks on Teenagers’ Socioemotional Skills and Risky Health Behaviors | Nicolas Fuertes Segura |
| Long-Term Care, Aging, & Demography | In Sickness and in Health? Evidence on Health Shocks and Marital Instability | Maya Roy |
| Health Systems and Health Care Financing | Using Census Data to Study the Healthcare Sector: An Application to the Affordable Care Act | Jackson Reimer, Atul Gupta, Alice Zawacki |
| Environment and Health | New Beginnings: The NOx Budget Trading Program and Infants’ Health | Nahid Tavassoli |
| Health Econometrics | Impact of Medicaid Financing and Delivery System Reforms on Pediatric Behavioral Healthcare Utilization and Disparities: Evidence from Massachusetts | Kimberley Geissler, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Barry Sarvet, Jessica Pearlman, Sarah Goff |
| Effects of Health Insurance and Consumer Decision Making | Default Enrollment for D-SNPs | Joseph Hnath, Vilsa Curto |
| Health Equity | When Uber Comes to Town: Transportation and Healthcare Access | Ruochen Sun |
| Innovation and Digitization | Combining Complements: Theory and Evidence from Cancer Treatment Innovation | Rebekah Dix |