{"id":3905,"date":"2025-10-08T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:45:01","slug":"tpri-authors-win-atkinson-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/2025\/10\/08\/tpri-authors-win-atkinson-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"TPRI Authors win Atkinson Prize for Research on Economic Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng <span data-contrast=\"auto\">have been honored with the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecineq.org\/atkinson-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Atkinson Prize<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, an award given every two years by the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecineq.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">ECINEQ<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) to authors of high-quality articles published in the<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Journal of Economic Inequality\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for their paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10888-023-09610-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans<\/a>.\u201d The article examines the effects of salary history bans on private employer wage posting and pay, particularly its impact on women and minorities. The results of this research found that \u201cwhen employers can access applicants\u2019 salary histories while bargaining over wages, they can take advantage of past inequities, perpetuating inequality.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng have been honored with the\u00a0Atkinson Prize, an award given every two years by the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) to authors of high-quality articles published in the\u00a0Journal of Economic Inequality\u00a0for their paper \u201cPerpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans.\u201d The article examines the effects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}