Anastasia Cozarenco, Valentina Hartarska, and Ariane Szafarz received the 2019 Warren Samuels Prize for the paper "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: The Conflicting Impacts of Subsidies and Deposits on the Cost-Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions",  Atlanta, USA, January 2019  The Warren Samuels

Prize is awarded by the Association for Social Economics to a paper, presented at the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) meetings, that best exemplifies scholarly work that is of high quality, is important to the project of social economics, and has broad appeal across disciplines.