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Prof. Dr h.c. Oded Stark

is a professor at the Department of Population Economics and Demography of the Faculty of Economics and at the same time an honorary doctorate of the University of Warsaw.

According to the compilation of Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), the largest non-commercial bibliographic database on economics and finance, he is the highest ranked economist in Poland and among the top 1% of economists worldwide.

In a ranking conducted by Handelsblatt, he is annually ranked among the top three economics professors of the German language area.

Prof. Dr. h.c. Oded Stark publishes at least several articles each year in international scientific journals with a high impact factor.

The Oded Stark Award

The Prof. Oded Stark Award has been given for outstanding publishing achievements since 2007. The award is funded by Professor Oded Stark, an outstanding economist and professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, at the University of Warsaw.


Doctoral candidates and people who obtained a doctoral degree within the last 3 years may apply for the award.


Applications should be sent by 30 June each year to the email address of the General Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences.

  Details are available in the Regulations for the Award. 

Award Winners

 2019

The prof.Oded Stark Award was given to Dorota Celińska-Kopczyńska for the article Strawiński, P., D. Celińska-Kopczyńska. 2019. Occupational injury risk wage premium. Safety Science 118: 337–344.

 2018

In 2018 the Award Committee decided not to give it and to carry over the funds to the next edition of the competition

 2017

The prof.Oded Stark Award was given to  Ewa Zawojska for the article Stark, O., E. Zawojska. 2015. Gender Differentiation in Risk-Taking Behavior: On the Relative Risk Aversion of Single Men and Single Women. Economics Letters 137: 83-87.

 2016

In 2016 the Award Committee decided not to give it and to carry over the funds to the next edition of the competition

 2015

The prof.Oded Stark Award was given to  Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska for the article Cukrowska-Torzewska, E., A. Lovasz. 2016. Are children driving the wage gap? Economics of Transition 24: 259-297.

 2014 

In 2014 the Award Committee decided not to give it and to carry over the funds to the next edition of the competition

 2013

In 2013 the Award Committee decided not to give it and to carry over the funds to the next edition of the competition

 2012

The prof.Oded Stark Award was given to  Martyna Kobus for the article  Kobus, M. 2012. Inequality decomposition by population subgroups for ordinal data. Journal of Health Economics 31, 15-21.

 2011

In 2011 the Award Committee decided not to give it and to carry over the funds to the next edition of the competition

 2010

The prof. Oded Stark Award was given to:

Jan Fałkowski for the article Fałkowski, J. 2010. Price transmission and market power in transition context: Evidence from the Polish fluid milk sector. Post-Communist Economies 22: 513-529.

Mikołaj Czajkowski for the article Czajkowski, M., M. Buszko-Briggs and N. Hanley. 2009. Valuing changes in forest diversity. Ecological Economics 68: 2910-2917.

 2009

In 2009 the Award Committee decided not to give it and to carry over the funds to the next edition of the competition

 2008

The prof.Oded Stark Award was given to Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska for the article ​​​​​​Metelska-Szaniawska, K. 2009. Constitutions and economic reforms in transition: an empirical study. Constitutional Political Economy 20: 1-41.

 2007

In 2007 the Award Committee decided not to give it and to carry over the funds to the next edition of the competition