The Nancy and Richard Ruggles Memorial Fund provides for a Prize for researcher or researchers aged 35 or under. The aim of the Prize is to promote the development of young researchers by recognizing their outstanding scholarship. One Prize will be awarded competitively on the basis of a paper presented at the General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) and judged by the Trustees of the Fund. The next Prize will be awarded during the IARIW Conference to be held in St. Gallen, Switzerland the 22 – 28 August 2010. Papers can be by a single author or several authors, all of whom must be equal to or less than 35 years of age on February 15, 2010 to be eligible for the Prize. In order to be considered for the next Prize, authors must:

• By 31 August 2009, submit an abstract to a session organizer or the Programme Committee for the IARIW 31st General Conference. Abstracts are to be sent to session organizers for the themed plenary and parallel sessions, and to the Programme Committee for other contributions. The abstract must represent unpublished original work that is on a subject relevant to the interests of the IARIW (see the inside front cover page of The Review of Income and Wealth for a description of the Association's fields of interest or access the website at www.iariw.org)
• For authors with abstracts accepted for the 31st General Conference of the IARIW, submit by 31 May 2010 the unpublished original paper associated with the abstract and a Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) for each author and note each author’s eligibility in terms of age. E-mail the paper and C.V. to Garner.Thesia@BLS.gov .

The value of the Prize is $2,500 (U.S. dollars) in total, regardless of the number of authors. The successful author or one of the co-authors will be required to attend the IARIW conference to accept the Prize.

The Nancy and Richard Ruggles Memorial Fund Prize can be held in conjunction with a financial assistance grant to travel to the general IARIW conference. Information on travel awards is provided at http://iariw.org/finstandorders.asp.

All persons who have submitted abstracts to the General Conference will be notified by the end of November 2009 regarding whether their papers have been accepted for the Conference program. The winner or co-winners of the Nancy and Richard Memorial Fund Prize will be notified by 1 August 2010.

Thesia I. Garner, Patricia Ruggles, Peter Saunders, Harry X. Wu Trustees of the Nancy and Richard Ruggles Memorial Fund