We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 ‘Best Comparative Paper Presented at an APPAM Research Conference’. The decision by the APPAM-ICPA-Forum Joint Adjudication Committee was unanimous:
“The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Different-Sex Marriage:
Evidence from the Netherlands”
Mircea Trandafir (Sherbrooke, Quebec)
The paper was first presented in November 2008 at the 30th APPAM Research Conference in Los Angeles. The Award will be presented to the author at the 31st APPAM Research Conference in Washington, D.C. in November 2009. ICPA-Forum will hold a reception honoring the author. The paper was one of 32 comparative papers short listed. The JCPA Aims and Scope and its Six Criteria of comparative policy scholarship were used for the selection.
We would like to take this opportunity to extend our gratitude to the members of the Joint Adjudication Committee:
On Behalf of APPAM:
Prof. Karen Baehler
Victoria University-Wellington
Prof. Robert Walker
University of Oxford
On Behalf of the ICPA-Forum:
Prof. Peter May
University of Washington
Prof. Harald Saetren
University of Bergen
The Committee was Chaired by Iris Geva-May, Simon Fraser University - Vancouver.
View the previous winning articles since initiation of this Award in 2007:
Mircea Trandafir is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Université de Sherbrooke. His doctorate was awarded by the University of Maryland, College Park, following his M.A. in economics from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and his B.A. in finance from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania. His current research focuses on the effects of various national or local policies on individual decisions such as marriage, criminal activities and education choice.