Jabarkan Penghargaan dari Daron Acemoğlu

The University of York, Faculty of Economics, Head of Department Prize, 1988

Penghargaan makalah terbaik di Economic Journal, 1996

T. W. Schultz Prize at the University of Chicago, 2004

Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor economics, 2004

John Bates Clark Medal, 2005

Anggota American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006.

Academy Awards in the Social Sciences – 2006, Turkish Academy of Science

Turkish-American Scientists and Scholars Association's Turkish Science Award, 2006.

John von Neumann Award, 2007, diberikan oleh Rajk László College for Advanced Studies

Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, 2012, "atas kontribusinya terhadap pemahaman lembaga politik, perubahan teknis, dan pertumbuhan ekonomi.”

Nominasi Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, 2012, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Penghargaan Kebudayaan dan Kesenian Presiden Turki, 2013.