Previous Winners
Winners of the Stough-Johansson Springer Award
- 2025: Annie Yu-Hsin Hsu (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) for her paper with Steven G. Craig “Is the Inner City Boom Over?”
- 2024: Daria Denti (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) & Marco Di Cataldo (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), for their paper “Equal Justice Under Law? Local Justice Quality and Crimes”
- 2023: Justin Tyndall (University of Hawaii at Manoa) & Cody Nehiba (Louisiana State University), for their paper “Highways and Pedestrian Deaths in US Neighborhoods”
- 2022: Nicholas Irwin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA) & David Wolf (Kobe University, Japan) for their paper “Is it really bridging the gap? Fiber internet`s impact on housing values and homebuyer demographics”
- 2021: Gloria Cicerone (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy) for her paper “Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: Does the digital transformation meet the green transition?” (co-authored with Alessandra Faggian, Sandro Montresor & Francesco Rentocchini)
- 2020: Geoff Boeing (University of Southern California (USC)) for his paper “Off the Grid… and Back Again? The Recent Evolution of American Street Network Planning and Design”
- 2019: Dr. Sutee Anantsuksomsri co-authored with Dr. Nik Tontisirin (Chulalongkorn Univeristy, Thailand) for “Land Value Capture as a Funding Source for Public Transport: a case study of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region”
- 2018: Dr. Yoojin Yi (Seoul National University, South Korea) for “Firm relocation and age-dependent reliance on agglomeration externalities”
- 2017: Dr. Juan Carlos Lopez (University of Denver) for “Cultural Workers and the Character of Cities”
- 2016: Dr. Karl Geisler (University of New Mexico) for “Tourism, Las Vegas, and The Hangover: Quantifying a Major Motion Picture’s Impacts on Visitor Volume”
- 2015: Dr. Keisuke Kondo (Research Institute for Economy, Trade, and Industry, Japan) for “Disentangling the Channels of Agglomeration Impacts on Individual Wages: The Case of the Mexican Banking Sector”
- 2014: Dr. Pengyu Zhu (Boise State University) for “Residential Segregation and Employment Outcomes of Rural Migrant Workers in China: Addressing Self-Selection Bias with Attitude Information”
- 2012: Dr. Andrew Cassey, co-authored with Katherine Schmeiser (Washington State University) for “The Agglomeration of Exporters by Destination”
- 2011: Dr. Ralph McLaughlin (University of South Australia, Adelaide) for “Metropolitan growth policies and new housing supply: Evidence from Australia’s capital cities”
- 2010: Dr. Yiming Wang (University of Cardiff, Wales) for “Decomposing the entropy index of racial diversity: In search of two types of variance”
- 2009: Dr. Daisuke Nakamura (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) for “Agglomeration economies and two contrasting transportation costs: Complementary and substitution perspectives”
- 2008: Dr. Jaewon Lim (University of Arizona) for “Does Wage Differential Driven Migration Continue to Exist? Tests on the Role of Regional Economic Structure in Wage Differential Driven Migration”
- 2007: Dr. Lena Birkelöf (Umeå University, Sweden) for “Exploring Differences for the Functional Impaired: Neighborhood Interaction and the Federal Structure”
- 2006: Dr. Sarah Low (Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City) for “Where Are the Entrepreneurs? Examining the Location of Proprietor Breadth and Depth”
- 2005: Dr. Hoje Kang (Cleveland State University) for “Detecting Agglomeration Processes in the Product Life Cycle and Sudden Changes Using Space-Time Clustering Analysis”
- 2004: Dr. Dao-Zhi Zeng (Kagawa University, Japan) for “Spatial Economy with Multi-Manufacturing Industries”
- 2003: Dr. Adelheid Holl (University of Sheffield, England) for “Determinants of Spatial and Sectoral Variations in Firm Birth: Empirical Results for Portugal”
- 2000: Dr. Audrey Clarke (Western Oregon University) for “The Role of the Innovative Milieu in the Locational Concentration of Computer Services: A Pilot Study of the Portland Metropolitan Area”
- 1999: Dr. Stuart H. Sweeney (University of California, Santa Barbara) co-authored with Dr. Edward J. Feser for “Out-migration, Depopulation, and Regional Economic Distress”