This prize is awarded by the Western Regional Science Association in honor of the outstanding contributions to regional science made by Charles M. Tiebout before his untimely death in 1968. In addition to his scholarly achievements, "Charlie" Tiebout brought wit, irreverence, and goodwill to everything he did and everyone he knew. He was particularly good in advising, counseling, and encouraging graduate students: thus, it is fitting that the WRSA's annual prize bearing his name be awarded to the best graduate student paper in regional science.

1987		Timothy J. Fik
1988		Stephen J. Appold
1989		Scott Campbell
1990		T. Wong
1991		Katherine M. O'Regan
1992		Henry Buist
1993		Hsin-Ping Chen and Alastair McFarlane
1994		Ricardo Gazel
1995		David M. Levinson
1996		Steven P. Raphael
1997		Seong Woo Lee and Woo Suk Zhee
1998		Alexander C. Vias
1999		Kara Kockelman
2000		Arno van der Vlist
2001		Brian Mikelbank
2002		Tracy Gordon
2003		Chokri Dridi and Bhanu Yerra
2004		Sandy Dall'erba
2005		Shaoming Cheng
2006		Rocco R. Huang
2007		Michael Wenz