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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics publishes papers covering a range of topics in applied economics, with a focus on empirical microeconomic issues. In particular, we welcome papers on labor economics, development microeconomics, health, education, demography, empirical corporate finance, empirical studies of trade, and empirical behavioral economics. We are facilitating the exchange of ideas through our online discussion forum.
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New! AEJ: Applied Economics, Vol. 4, Iss. 2 -- April 2012

AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Prize, 2012:

AEJ: Applied, 2 (4) "Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence on Poverty from India" Petia Topalova

Special Announcement to Authors:
Effective July 1, 2011

Upon a joint recommendation of the editors of the American Economic Review and the four American Economic Journals, the Executive Committee has voted to drop the "double-blind" refereeing process for all journals of the American Economic Association. The change to "single-blind" refereeing will become effective on July 1, 2011. Easy access to search engines increasingly limits the effectiveness of the double-blind process in maintaining anonymity. Further, it increases the administrative cost of the journals and makes it harder for referees to identify an author's potential conflicts of interest arising, for example, from consulting.

Editorial Staff

Esther Duflo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Editor

Thomas Lemieux
University of British Columbia
Liran Einav
Stanford University
Coeditors

Michelle DeBlasi
Managing Editor

Matthew Newton
Assistant Managing Editor

Kelly Andrews
Editorial Assistant

Olivia Sweeney
Editorial Assistant

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Phone: 412-432-2310
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Jerome Adda
Joshua Angrist
Peter Arcidiacono
Abhijit Banerjee
John Bound
David Card
Amitabh Chandra
Aimee Chin
Gordon Dahl
Raymond J. Fisman
Andrew D. Foster
Matthew Gentzkow
Gordon H. Hanson
Brian A. Jacob
Seema Jayachandran
Chinhui Juhn
Dean Karlan
Jeffrey R. Kling
Michael Kremer
Alan Manning
Robert Margo
Alex Mas
Edward Miguel
Sendhil Mullainathan
Antoinette Schoar
Jesse Shapiro
Dan Silverman
Alan Sorensen
Duncan Thomas

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The Council on Foreign Relations Blog writes about Karen Macours, Norbert Schady, and Renos Vakis' research on the impact of cash transfers on early childhood cognitive development, which appears in the April 2012 issue of AEJ: Applied. Macours, Schady, and Vakis show that a program that transferred cash to women in Nicaragua improved child development during the program and two years later, after the program was ended and transfers were discontinued.

AOL Daily Finance writes about Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter, and Andrew Heisz's research on the career effects of graduating in a recession, published in the January 2012 issue of AEJ: Applied.

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The American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics are now being indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index ® (SSCI), which is produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

AEJ: Applied Economics publishes quarterly (January, April, July, October)