| The John Bates Clark Medal | Exhibit 8b | ||
| Year of Award | Winner | Nobel | Wait Time (in yrs) |
| 1947 | Paul A. Samuelson | 1970 | 23 |
| 1949 | Kenneth E. Boulding | out | |
| 1951 | Milton Friedman | 1976 | 25 |
| 1953 | No Award | n/a | |
| 1955 | James Tobin | 1981 | 26 |
| 1957 | Kenneth J. Arrow | 1972 | 15 |
| 1959 | Lawrence R. Klein | 1980 | 21 |
| 1961 | Robert M. Solow | 1987 | 26 |
| 1963 | Hendrik S. Houthakker | ||
| 1965 | Zvi Griliches | out | |
| 1967 | Gary S. Becker | 1992 | 25 |
| 1969 | Marc Leon Nerlove | ||
| 1971 | Dale W. Jorgenson | ||
| 1973 | Franklin M. Fisher | ||
| 1975 | Daniel McFadden | 2000 | 25 |
| 1977 | Martin S. Feldstein | ||
| 1979 | Joseph E. Stiglitz | 2001 | 22 |
| 1981 | A. Michael Spence | 2001 | 20 |
| 1983 | James J. Heckman | 2000 | 17 |
| 1985 | Jerry A. Hausman | ||
| 1987 | Sanford J. Grossman | ||
| 1989 | David M. Kreps | ||
| 1991 | Paul R. Krugman | ||
| 1993 | Lawrence H. Summers | ||
| 1995 | David Card | ||
| 1997 | Kevin M. Murphy | ||
| 1999 | Andrei Shleifer | ||
| 2001 | Matthew Rabin | ||
| 2003 | Steven Levitt | ||