1956 Best graduate paper, American Farm Economic Association
1957 Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation, American Farm Economic Association
1965 Best published research, American Farm Economic Association for:
Long Term Projections of Supply and Demand for Agricultural Products in Israel, 1964
1965 Bareli Prize, Israel
1972 Rothschild Prize, Israel
1980 Quality of Research Discovery, American Agricultural Economic Association for: Intersectoral Factor Mobility and Agricultural Growth. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute, Research Report 6, 1979.
1982 Quality of Research Discovery, American Agricultural Economic Association for Agricultural and Economic Growth in an Open Economy: The Case of Argentina (with D. Cavallo), Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute, Research Report 36, 1982,
1991 "Publication of Enduring Quality", American Agricultural Economic Association for: "On the Pooling of Time Series and Cross Section Data," Econometrica, 1978
1997 Honorable mention award for outstanding American Journal of Agricultural Economics article for the paper entitled “International Comparison of Cattle Cycles”, November 1996 (coauthored with He Huang).
1953 Phi Beta Kappa
1966-7 Ford Foundation Research Fellowship, The University of Chicago.
1970 Fellow, The Econometric Society
1973-77 Associate Editor, Journal of Econometrics.
1986 The Marschak Lecture, The Econometric Society Meeting, Cordoba, Argentina
1990-91 Visiting Research Fellowship, the World Bank
1993 Fellow, American Agricultural Economics Association.
1997 The Elmhirst Memorial Lecture at the XXIII International Conference of Agricultural
Economists, Sacramento, CA, August.
1997 The Hibbard Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
2001 The Frederick V. Waugh Lecture, The American Agricultural Economic Association meeting, Chicago, August 5-8.
2002 The Alan Lloyd Address, Invitation by The Australian Agricultural and Resource Economic Society meeting, Canberra.