| 2020 |
| Capital in the Nineteenth Century | Robert E. Gallman and Paul W. Rhode |
| 2017 |
| Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy | Douglas A. Irwin |
| Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets | Leah Platt Boustan |
| 2015 |
| The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South | Howard Bodenhorn |
| 2013 |
| Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership | Price V. Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden |
| Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics | Robert William Fogel, Enid M. Fogel, Mark Guglielmo, and Nathaniel Grotte |
| 2012 |
| Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions | Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff |
| 2011 |
| The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700 | Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris, Sok Chul Hong |
| 2008 |
| Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War | Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn |
| 2005 |
| The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790–1920 | B. Zorina Khan |
| 2004 |
| Water, Race, and Disease | Werner Troesken |
| 2001 |
| Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935 | Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor |
| 2000 |
| Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860 | Robert A. Margo |
| A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation | Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor |
| 1999 |
| Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum U.S. 1840-1860 | Joseph P. Ferrie |
| 1998 |
| The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990 | Dora L. Costa |
| 1997 |
| In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 | Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter |
| 1994 |
| Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England | Naomi R. Lamoreaux |
| The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy | Ronald N. Johnson and Gary D. Libecap |
| 1992 |
| Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 | Barry Eichengreen |
| 1991 |
| Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America | Samuel H. Preston and Michael R. Haines |
| 1990 |
| Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950: An Economic History | Robert A. Margo |
| Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women | Claudia Goldin |
| Height, Health, and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980 | Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory |