2023 Jennifer Winter (University of Calgary), Brett Dolter (University of Regina), G. Kent Fellows (University of Calgary) for their paper, "Carbon Pricing Costs for Households and the Progressivity of Revenue Recycling Options in Canada", vol. 49(1), pp. 13-45.
2022 Mario Fortin (Université de Sherbrooke) for his paper, "The Fiscal Impact of Quantitative Easing", vol. 48(4), pp. 490-502, December 2022.
Runner-up: Pierre Brochu and Jonathan Créchet (University of Ottawa) for their paper, "Survey Non-Response in COVID-19 Times: The Case of the Labour Force Survey", vol. 48(3), pp. 451-472, September 2022.
2021 Ian Keay and Cherie Metcalf for their paper, "Recognizing Indigenous Rights in Canada: Property Rights and Natural Resource Values" vol 47(1), pp. 18-55, March 2021
Runner-up: Geranda Notten and Julie Kaplan for their paper, "Material Deprivation: Measuring Poverty by Counting Necessities Households Cannot Afford", vol. 46(1), pp. 1-17, March 2021.
2020 Jennifer Robson and Saul Schwartz for their paper, "Who Doesn’t File a Tax Return? A Portrait of Non-Filers" vol 46(3), pp. 323-339, September 2020
Runner-up: Thomas Lemieux, Kevin Milligan, Tammy Schirle and Mikal Skuterud for their paper, "Initial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Canadian Labour Market", vol. 46(1), pp. 55-65, July 2020.
2019 Tracy Snoddon and Trevor Tombe for their paper, "Analysis of Carbon Tax Treatment in Canada's Equalization Program", vol. 45(3), pp. 377-392, September 2019.
Runner-up: Stéphanie Lluis and Brian McCall for their paper, "Employment and Job Search Implications of the Extended Weeks and Working While on Claim Pilot Initiatives", vol. 45(2), pp.129-172, June 2019.
2018 Vincent Chandler for his paper, "Do Evaluators Prefer Candidates of Their Own Gender?", vol. 44(4), pp. 289-302, December 2018.
Runner-up: Zong Jia Chen and Mikal Skuterud for their paper, "Relative Labour Market Performance of Former International Students: Evidence from the National Graduates Survey", vol. 44(3), pp. 207-225, September 2018.
2017 Philip S.J. Leonard for his paper, "Do School Junk Food Bans Improve Student Health? Evidence from Canada", vol. 43(2), pp. 105-119, June 2017.
Runner-up: Derek Messacar for his paper, "Big tax data and economic analysis: Effects of personal income tax reassessments and delayed tax filing", vol. 43(3), pp. 261-83, September 2017.
2016 Ram C. Acharya for his paper, "Canada's Exporters and Importers: Concentration, Foreign Ownership and Productivity", vol. 42(2), pp.194-211, June 2016.
Runner-up: Luc Bissonnette, David Boisclair, François Laliberté-Auger, Steeve Marchand, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Carole Vincent for their paper, "Projecting the Impact of Population Aging on the Quebec Labour Market", vol. 42(4), pp. 431-441, December 2016.
2015 Ryan Cardwell, Chad Lawley and Di Xiang for their paper, "Milked and Feathered: The Regressive Welfare Effects of Canada's Supply Management Regime", vol. 41(1), pp.1-14, March 2015.
Runner-up (tie): Melanie O’Gorman and Manish Pandey for their paper, "Explaining Low High School Attainment in Northern Aboriginal Communities: An Analysis of the Aboriginal Peoples' Surveys", vol. 41(4), pp. 297-308, December 2015.
Runner-up (tie): Joel Wood for his paper, "Is It Time to Raise the Gas Tax? Optimal Gasoline Taxes for Ontario and Toronto", vol. 41(3), pp. 179-190, September 2015.
2014 Ana M. Ferrer and Alicia Menendez for their paper, "The Puzzling Effects of Delaying Schooling on Canadian Wages", vol. 40(3), pp. 1-14, September 2014.
2013 Michael J. Kottelenberg and Steven F. Lehrer for their paper, "New Evidence on the Impacts of Access to and Attending Universal Child-Care in Canada", vol. 39(2), pp. 263-286, June 2013.
2012 Dominique M. Gross and Nicolas Schmitt for their paper, "Temporary Foreign Workers and Regional Labour Market Disparities", vol. 38(2), pp. 233-263, June 2012.
2011 Frank T. Denton and Byron G. Spencer for their paper, Age of Pension Eligibility", vol. 37(2), pp. 183-199, June 2011.
Runner-up: James B. Davies and Stanley L. Winer for their paper, "Closing the 49th Parallel: An Unexplored Episode in Canadian Economic and Political History", vol. 37(3), pp. 307-341, September 2011.
2010 Louis N. Christofides and Robert Swidinsky for their paper, The Economic Returns to the Knowledge and Use of a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada", vol. 36(2), pp. 137-158, June 2010.
Runner-up: Brahim Boudarbat, Thomas Lemieux and Craig Riddell for their paper, "The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005", vol. 36(1), pp. 63-89, March 2010.
2009 Anthony E. Boardman, Claude Laurin, Mark A. Moore, and Aidan R. Vining for their paper, "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Privatization of Canadian National Railway", vol. 35(1), pp. 59-83, March 2009.
2008 B. Curtis Eaton and Mukesh Eswaran for their paper, "Differential Grading Standards and Student Incentives", vol. 34(2), pp. 215-236, June 2008.
Runner-up: J.C. Herbert Emery and Ronald D. Kneebone for their paper, "Socialists, Populists, Resources, and the Divergent Development of Alberta and Saskatchewan", vol. 34(4), pp. 419-440, November 2008.
2007 Dan Usher for his paper, "The Reform of Equalization Payments", vol. 33(3), pp. 337-366, September 2007.
Runner-up: J. Stephen Ferris and Stanley L. Winer for their paper, "Just How Much Bigger Is Government in Canada? A Comparative Analysis of the Size and Structure of the Public Sectors in Canada and the United States", vol. 33(2), pp. 173-206, June 2007.
2006 Stuart Landon, Melville L. McMillan, Vijay Muralidharan and Mark Parsons for their paper, "Does Health-Care Spending Crowd Out Other Provincial Expenditures?", vol. 32(2), pp. 121-142, June 2006.
Runner-up: Bryan Campbell and Steve Murphy for their paper, "The Recent Performance of the Canadian Forecasting Industry", vol. 32(1), pp. 23-40, March 2006.
2005 Paul V. Grootendorst and Michael R. Veall for their paper, "National Catastrophic Drug Insurance Revisited: Who Would Benefit from Senator Kirby's Recommendations", vol. 31(4), pp. 341-358, December 2005.
Runner-up: René Morrissette and Yuri Ostrovsky for their paper, "The Instability of Family Earnings and Family Income in Canada, 1986-1991 and 1996-2001", vol. 31(3), pp. 273-302, September 2005.
2004 Ian Keay and Cherie Metcalf for their paper, "Aboriginal Rights, Customary Law and Renewable Resource Exploitation", vol. 30(1), pp. 1-27, March 2004.
2003 Glenn W. Harrison, James P. Feehan, Alison C. Edwards and Jorge Segovia for their paper, "Cigarette Smoking and the Cost of Hospital and Physician Care", vol. 29(1), pp. 1-19, March 2003.
Runner-up: Leonard S. Wilson for his paper, "Equalization, Efficiency and Migration: Watson Revisited", vol. 29(4), pp. 385-395, December 2003.
2002 Susan Johnson for her paper, "Canadian Union Density 1980-1998 and Prospects for the Future: An Empirical Investigation", vol. 28(3), pp. 333-351, September 2002.
2001 Shelley Phipps, Martha MacDonald and Fiona MacPhail for their paper, "Gender equity within families versus better targeting: an assessment of the Family Income Supplement to Employment Insurance Benefits", vol. 27(4), pp. 423-446, December 2001.
2000 Vicky Barham, Rose Anne Devlin et Chantale LaCasse for their paper, "Are the New Child-Support Guidelines 'Adequate' or 'Reasonable'?", vol. 26(1), pp. 1-15, March 2000.
Runner-up: Michele Campolieti and John N. Lavis for their paper, "Disability Expenditures in Canada, 1970-1996: Trends, Reform Efforts and a Path for the Future", vol. 26(2), pp. 241-264, June 2000.
1999 Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson for their paper, "Wage Opportunities for Visible Minorities in Canada", vol. 25(3), pp. 379-394, September 1999.
Runner-up: Kelly Bedard, John Dorland, Allan W. Gregory and Mark Rosenberg for their paper, "Standardized Mortality Ratios and Canadian Health-Care Funding", vol. 25(1), pp. 47-64, March 1999.
1998 Geoffrey E. Hale for his paper, "Reforming Employment Insurance: Transcending the Politics of the Status Quo", vol. 24(4), pp. 429-451, December, 1998.
1997 James Ted McDonald and Christopher Worswick for their paper, "Unemployment Incidence of Immigrant Men in Canada", vol. 23(4), pp. 353-373, December 1997.
1996 Frances Woolley, Arndt Vermaeten and Judith Madill: "Ending Universality: The Case of Child Benefits", vol. 22(1), pp. 24-39, March 1996.
1995 Arndt Vermaeten, W. Irwin Gillespie and Frank Vermaeten for their paper, "Who paid the taxes in Canada, 1951-1988?", vol. 21(3), pp. 317-343, September 1995.
Runner-up: Shelley Phipps for her paper, "Canadian Child Benefits: Behavioural Consequences and Income Adequacy", vol. 21(1), pp. 20-30, March 1995.
1994 George Hoberg and Kathryn Harrison for their paper, "It's not easy being green: the politics of Canada's green plan", vol. 20(2), pp. 119-137, June 1994.
1993 Charles M. Beach and Christopher Worswick for their paper, "Is There a Double-Negative Effect on the Earnings of Immigrant Women in Canada?", vol. 19(1), pp. 36-53, Mars 1993.
