The Kendrick prize was originally launched in 1990 as recognition for the best article published each year in the Review of Income and Wealth. The prize was a named after John W. Kendrick, a long-standing member of the IARIW and a leading scholar on the measurement of economic growth and productivity in the United States, and who provided a generous donation to finance the prize for the first couple of years. After falling dormant for a number of years, the IARIW Council and Editorial Board reinstalled the price in 2008 as a means to recognize and show appreciation for the important contributions that many scholars make to research on income and wealth, by publishing their paper in the Association’s journal. The prize consists of a total amount of 1000 US$.

The prize will be awarded at the 31th General Conference of IARIW and relates to papers published in the 2008 and 2009 issues.

Authors Awarded:

1990

• First Prize. Adam Szirmai and Dirk Pilat: "Comparisons of Purchasing Power, Real Output and Labour Productivity in Manufacturing in Japan, South Korea, and the U.S.A., 1975-1985" [March, 1990].
• Second Prize. Graham Pyatt: "Accounting for Time Use" [March, 1990].
• Third Prize. Stephen Crystal and Dennis Shea: "The Economic Well-Being of The Elderly" [September, 1990].

• First Prize. Barbara Wolfe and Robert Moffitt: "A New Index to Value In-Kind Benefits," December, 1991.
• Second Prize. Utz-Peter Reich: "Concept and Definition of Income in the National Accounts," September, 1991.
• Third Prize. Robert Eisner: "The Real Rate of U.S. National Saving." March, 1991

• First Prize. Nancy D. Ruggles and Richard Ruggles, "Household and Enterprise Saving and Capital Formation In the United States: A Market Transactions View" (June 1992).
• Second Prize. Julie A. Nelson, "Methods of Estimating Household Equivalence Scales: An Empirical Investigation" (September 1992).
• Third Prize. Gordon Green, John Coder, and Paul Ryscavage, "International Comparisons of Earnings Inequality for Men in the 1980s" (March 1992).

• First Prize. Stephen Jenkins and Peter J. Lambert : "Ranking Income Distributions when Needs Differ," (December 1993)
• Second Prize. Timothy M. Smeeding, Peter Saunders, John Coder, Stephen
Jenkins, Johan Fritzell, Aldi J. M. Hagenaars, Richard Hauser, and Michael Wolfson: “Poverty, Inequality, and Family Living Standards Impacts Across Seven Nations: The Effects of Noncash Subsidies for Health, Education and Housing," (September 1993).
• Third Prize. Dirk Pilat: "The Sectoral Productivity Performance of Japan and the United States, 1885- 1990," (December 1993)

• Andre Vanoli “Reflections on Environmental Accounting Issues" (June 1995).

• François Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, and Marta Menendez, 'Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil,' Dec. 2007, pp. 585-618;
• Branko Milanovic, 'An Estimate of Average Income and Inequality in Byzantine Around Year 1000,' September 2006, pp. 449-470.

• Carol Corrado, Charles Hulten, and Daniel Sichel, 'Intangible Capital and U.S. Economics Growth,' Sept. 2009, pp. 661-685;
• Kevin Milligan, 'How Household Portfolios Evolve After Retirement: The Effect of Aging and Health Shocks,' June 2009, pp. 226-248.