The award is given annually to a student who is enrolled in a Ph.D. program at a university in one of the five Nordic countries or in Estonia, or a young researcher who works with a research institute in one of these countries. The Ph.D. student should still be enrolled when the paper is submitted, while a young researcher should have obtained his or her Master's degree (or equivalent) less than 5 years before this date. The student or young researcher has to be a single or first author of the paper in question.
Award criteria:
An award committee will select the paper that makes the greatest contribution to health economics. The paper's contribution may be theoretical, empirical, methodological, or a combination of these. The recipient of the reward should attend the annual meeting and will be invited to give a 10 minutes presentation at the general session.
Award winners:
Award winners:
| Year | Author | Place | Title |
| 2015 | Ingrid M.S. Huitfeldt | University of Oslo | Spending the night? Effects of hospital reimbursement rates on medical treatment and health outcomes. |
| 2014 | Henning Øien | University of Oslo | Discrimination in Norwegian public eldercare - experimental evidence. |
| 2013 | Gustav Kjellsson | Lund University | Long run income-related inequality in smoking among Swedish women - a decomposition analysis. |
| 2012 | Henning Øien | University of Oslo | Do local governments respond to (perverse) financial incentives in long-term care funding schemes? |
| 2011 | The prize was not awarded | ||
| 2010 | Inger Cathrine Kann | University of Oslo | Paying physicians. Its influence on the quantity of medication prescribed to the elderly. |
| 2009 | Line Bjørnskov Pedersen | SDU, DK |
Willingness to pay for screening for prostate cancer in Denmark. The influence of private versus public provision and varying levels of information. |
| 2009 | Karolina Socha | SDU, Denmark | Physician Dual Practice and the problem of cream-skimming of patients from public sector waiting lists. |