Congratulations to our 2023 prize winners!

18 July 2023

We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our Master's students in 2022-23. We have been impressed by their hard work, dedication, and intellectual curiosity.

 

The following students have excelled in examinations, essays, and dissertations:

 

MPhil in Economics (Year 1)

  • Prize for the best overall performance in Examinations (Advanced papers) - Clara Schreiner, Nuffield College
  • Prize for the best overall performance in Examinations (Advanced papers - proxime accessit) - Qingyu Chen, Nuffield College
     
  • Prize for the best overall performance in Examinations (Core papers) - Augustus Smith, Pembroke College
  • Prize for the best overall performance in Examinations (Core papers - proxime accessit) - Brendan McGrath, Balliol College

 

MPhil in Economics (Year 2)

  • George Webb Medley Prize for the best performance in the written papers (1st prize) - Julia Loh, St Anne's College
  • George Webb Medley Prize for the best thesis (1st prize) - Peter Rickards, Exeter College
  • George Webb Medley Prize for the best thesis (proxime accessit) - Carlos Gonzalez Perez, University College

 

MSc in Economics

  • George Webb Medley Prize for the best overall performance - Anasuya Narasimhan, St Antony's College
  • George Webb Medley Prize for the best overall performance (proxime accessit) - Arth Mishra, Somerville College
     
  • Luca D’Agliano Prize for Best Dissertation (joint) - Shagnik Chakravarty (St Anne's College) & Magnus Eldrup (Pembroke College)
  • Arthur Lewis Prize for the Best Examination Essays in Development Economics - Arth Mishra, Somerville College

 

 

 

 

Descriptions of the awards:

  • The George Webb Medley Fund is the principal prize fund for Economics, Politics and Philosophy in Oxford and we can count amongst the past winners of the Economics prizes many very eminent scholars.
  • The Arthur Lewis Prize is named for an economist from Saint Lucia
  • Luca D’Agliano was an MSc student at St Antony’s in the early 1980s. He tragically died in a car accident shortly before he started his DPhil. His parents established the prize fund nearly 30 years ago.

Dissertation titles for the prize winners:

  • Shagnik Chakravarty: Income Risk and Education Investment: Evidence from India
  • Magnus Eldrup: Optimal Tax Thresholds in Tanzania: A Structural Approach
  • Peter Rickards: ‘The Effect of Macroeconomic Information on Household Expectations, Literacy and Perceptions: An RCT in Australia
  • Carlos (Proxime Accessit): Adverse Selection in Adaptive Settings’.