Congratulations to Thi Minh Thu Nguyen, the winner of the 2023 Epainos Award!
The award has been presented to the winner on Friday 1 September, during the Closing Ceremony of the ERSA Congress in Alicante. This year, the Epainos Committee chaired by Frank G. van Oort, decided to reward a promising young regional scientist for the outstanding presentation:
Thi Minh Thu Nguyen, Nagoya University, Japan, with her paper on “Do Special Economic Zones foster structural changes? Evidence from districts in Vietnam”.
The Young Scientists Sessions are organized each year at the ERSA Congress, and provide a special platform for paper presentations by young scientists with an in-depth discussion of the papers by senior scholars in the field. The Young Scientists Sessions are organized according to the following two principles:
- Offering more time for each presentation, in particular to increase the amount of feedback a young scientist receives on her or his paper, and to provide more opportunity for other young scientists to participate in scientific discussions.
- Assigning specialist discussants, experts in the specific field, to each presented paper
