The John W. Kendrick Prize

The Kendrick prize was originally launched in 1990 as recognition for the best article published that year in the Review of Income and Wealth. The prize was a named after John W. Kendrick, a long-standing member of the IARIW and a leading scholar on the measurement of economic growth and productivity in the United States, and who provided a generous donation to finance the prize for the first couple of years. After falling dormant for a number of years, the IARIW Council and Editorial Board reinstalled the prize in 2008 as a means to recognize and show appreciation for the important contributions in the micro area and in the macro area that many scholars make to research on income and wealth, by publishing their research in the Association's journal. Each prize is an amount of $1,000 US per paper.

Winner of the John W. Kendrick Prize, for articles published in 2023

Has Canada's 21st-Century Grand Gender Convergence Stalled? Male and Female Income and Human Resource Stock Distributions Viewed Through an Equal Opportunity Lens

Gordon Anderson, 

Abstract

The increasing similarity of male and female labor market roles in advanced economies over the past 50 years, dubbed the “Grand Gender Convergence” by Goldin (2014), appears to have stalled. Given commonality of preferences for work and human resource acquisition across the gender divide, women and men with similar human resources and efforts should have similar income distributions in a non-discriminatory equal opportunity equilibrium. However, income convergence is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a “Grand Gender Convergence” as similarities in incomes could be achieved with differences in human resources and efforts given discriminatory rewards. In this study, using new tools for examining distributional convergence processes, the progress of Canada's 21-st Century “Grand Gender Convergence” is examined in the context of an equal opportunity paradigm. While income convergence is almost universally apparent, human resource stock distributions appear to be diverging, with women having increasingly superior resources to men, evidence that the grand convergence is not progressing.

Past Prize Winners

Winner of the John W. Kendrick Prize, for articles published in 2022
Winner of the John W. Kendrick Prize, for articles published in 2021
Winner of the John W. Kendrick Prize, for articles published in 2020
Winner of the  John. W. Kendrick Prize, for articles published in 2019
Tied Winners of the John W. Kendrick Prize, for papers published in 2018. 
Winners of the John W. Kendrick Prize for 2018, for articles published in 2016 and 2017
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Winners for Articles Published in 2008 and 2009
Winners for Articles Published in 2006 and 2007