ACES Dissertation research Fellowship

The ACES Dissertation Research Fellowship, launched for the 2020-2021 academic year to encourage research on comparative economics supports an emerging scholar in the field with a generous stipend and travel fund as they complete their dissertation. The current selection committee currently consists of The selection panel consists of Michael Callen (London School of Economics), Filipe Campante (Johns Hopkins University), Vasiliki Fouka (Stanford University), Sara Lowes (University of California, San Diego) and Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford). The call for applications is typically circulated in February, with a submission deadline of April 15. Applications are being accepted now for the 2025-2026 ACES Dissertation Research Fellowship; please refer to our Call for Applications for more details and application instructions.

The Fellowship was launched in 2020 as the Gerard Roland Fellowship to honor and recognize the fundamental contributions of Gerard Roland to the field. Fellows receive a stipend, additional research funding, and a tuition scholarship. ACES also typically awards research prizes to runners-up. A list of fellows and research award winners is below.

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current aces dissertation fellows

matthias weigand

2025-2026 Dissertation Fellow

Matthias Weigand is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Harvard University, with a focus on economic history and political economy. His research investigates how state institutions take shape, and how these transformations influence economic development. His recent work explores how crises reshape state organization and how business coordination interacts with industrialization. Prior to graduate school, he was a pre-doctoral fellow in economics at Brown University and studied mathematics and economic history at the University of Oxford. He holds a B.Sc. in economics from LMU Munich.

nancy wang

2025-2026 Research Award

Nancy Wang is a PhD candidate in economics at MIT. She does research in behavioral and labor economics, with a focus on the digital economy. Her current research explores how social media algorithms interact with behavioral biases to influence norms and behavior, and how employer beliefs shape hiring and equity in the labor market for high-skilled workers. Prior to the PhD, Nancy graduated from MIT with SBs in chemical-biological engineering and mathematical economics and was a pre-doctoral fellow in genoeconomics at the NBER.

Current and Previous Fellows and Research Awardees

2025-2026

Matthias Weigand - Harvard University

(research award) Nancy Wang - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2024-2025

Miguel Fajardo Steinhäuser - London School of Economics

(research award) Jie Zhou - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2023-2024

Miguel Ortiz - University of California, Berkeley

(research award) Miguel Fajardo Steinhäuser - London School of Economics

2022-2023

Vitaliia Yaremko - University of California, Berkeley

(research award) Miguel Ortiz - University of California, Berkeley

2021-2022

Lukas Leucht - University of California, Berkeley

Lydia Assuoad - Paris School of Economics

(research award) - Awa Ambra Seck, Harvard University

2020-2021

Brian Wheaton - Harvard University

(research award) - Lydia Assuoad - Paris School of Economics

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