2023, Pennsylvania, USA

Winner:

Guodong Ju (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK), "Exploring and Explaining an Imagined LGBTQ+ Community on Chinese Social Media"

Honorable Mention:

Lai Wei (Princeton University, USA), "Labor Market Transformation and Effectively Maintained Immobility in the United States"

2022, Online

Winner:

Kai Feng (University of Pennsylvania, USA), "Unequal Duties and Unequal Retirement: Decomposing the Women’s Labor Force Decline in Post-Reform China"

Co-Honorable Mention:

Xiuqi Yang (University of Pennsylvania, USA), "Duration and Timing of Parental Out-migration on Early Childhood Development in China"

Ziyao Tian (Princeton University, USA), "Inclusive Assimilation: Middle-Class Asian Parenting in Suburban America"

2021, Online

Winner:

Yapeng Wang (The University of Virginia, USA), "Closing the Gender Gap in College Attendance: Variation by Family Background in China Over Time"

2020, Online

Winner:

Yifan Shen (Brown University, USA), "The Nonlinear Linkage between Earnings Homogamy and Earnings Inequality between Married Couples"

2019, New York, USA

Winner:

Yifeng Wan (Johns Hopkins University, USA), "When the State Retreats: Work Units, Marital Regulation, and Rising Divorce Rates in China"

Honorable Mention:

Wen Xie (University of Chicago, USA), "Double Bounded Autonomy and Regional Development: Pathways toward Capitalism in China"

2018, Princeton, USA

Co-Winners:

Cheng Cheng (Princeton University, USA), "Women's Education, Intergenerational Coresidence, and Household Decision-Making in China"

Fangqi Wen (New York University, USA), "Differential Fertility, Assortative Mating and Economic Inequality: An Unintended Consequence of China's One-Child Policy"

Co-Honorable Mentions:

Ran Liu (University of Pennsylvannia, USA), “Gender-Math Stereotype, Biased Self-Assessment, and Aspiration in STEM Careers: The Gender Gap among Early Adolescents in China”

Angran Li (University of Connecticut, USA), "Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Meritocracy? Academic Ability and Urban-Rural Gap in Access to Higher Education in China"