Year ! class="unsortable" | Medalists[1] ! class="unsortable" | Institution (at time of receipt) ! class="unsortable" | Alma mater (PhD) ! class="unsortable" | Nationality |
| 1947 | Paul Samuelson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Harvard University | United States |
| 1949 | Kenneth E. Boulding | University of Michigan | University of Oxford | United States |
| 1951 | Milton Friedman | University of Chicago | Columbia University | United States |
| 1955 | James Tobin | Yale University | Harvard University | United States |
| 1957 | Kenneth Arrow | Stanford University | Columbia University | United States |
| 1959 | Lawrence Klein | University of Pennsylvania | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 1961 | Robert Solow | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Harvard University | United States |
| 1963 | Hendrik S. Houthakker | Harvard University | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 1965 | Zvi Griliches | Harvard University | University of Chicago | Israel |
| 1967 | Gary Becker | University of Chicago | University of Chicago | United States |
| 1969 | Marc Nerlove | Yale University | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 1971 | Dale W. Jorgenson | Harvard University | Harvard University | United States |
| 1973 | Franklin M. Fisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Harvard University | United States |
| 1975 | Daniel McFadden | University of California, Berkeley | University of Minnesota | United States |
| 1977 | Martin Feldstein | Harvard University | University of Oxford | United States |
| 1979 | Joseph Stiglitz | Princeton University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 1981 | Michael Spence | Harvard University | Harvard University | United States |
| 1983 | James Heckman | University of Chicago | Princeton University | United States |
| 1985 | Jerry A. Hausman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | University of Oxford | United States |
| 1987 | Sanford J. Grossman | Princeton University | University of Chicago | United States |
| 1989 | David M. Kreps | Stanford University | Stanford University | United States |
| 1991 | Paul Krugman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 1993 | Lawrence Summers | World Bank | Harvard University | United States |
| 1995 | David Card | University of California, Berkeley | Princeton University | Canada |
| 1997 | Kevin M. Murphy | University of Chicago | University of Chicago | United States |
| 1999 | Andrei Shleifer | Harvard University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 2001 | Matthew Rabin | University of California, Berkeley | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 2003 | Steven Levitt | University of Chicago | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 2005 | Daron Acemoglu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | London School of Economics | Turkey, United States |
| 2007 | Susan Athey | Stanford University | Stanford University | United States |
| 2009 | Emmanuel Saez | University of California, Berkeley | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | France |
| 2010 | Esther Duflo | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | France |
| 2011 | Jonathan Levin | Stanford University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 2012 | Amy Finkelstein | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 2013 | Raj Chetty | Harvard University | Harvard University | United States |
| 2014 | Matthew Gentzkow | University of Chicago | Harvard University | United States |
| 2015 | Roland G. Fryer Jr. | Harvard University | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 2016 | Yuliy Sannikov | Princeton University | Stanford University | Ukraine |
| 2017 | Dave Donaldson[4] | Stanford University [5] | London School of Economics | Canada |
| 2018 | Parag Pathak[6] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Harvard University | United States[7] |
1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.aeaweb.org/honors_awards/clark_medal.php|title=American Economic Association|website=www.aeaweb.org}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/news/article/?id=6379|title=The Chronicle of Higher Education|publisher=}}
3. ^{{cite news|last1=Rampell|first1=Catherine|title=Prize Deflation|url=https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/prize-deflation/|accessdate=20 April 2018|work=Economix|publisher=The New York Times|date=4 January 2009}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21721136-law-comparative-advantage-200-still-winning-prizes-trade-economist|title=A trade economist wins the John Bates Clark medal|publisher=}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://economics.stanford.edu/about/news/professor-dave-donaldson-awarded-2017-john-bates-clark-medal|title=Professor Dave Donaldson awarded the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal – Economics|website=economics.stanford.edu}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=Parag Pathak, Clark Medalist 2018|url=https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/bates-clark/parag-pathak|website=American Economic Association|accessdate=20 April 2018}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=Parag Pathak, 2003|url=https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/parag-pathak|publisher=P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans|accessdate=20 April 2018}}