AEJ Best Paper Awards
Annually, an article is selected from each American Economic Journal from nominated articles for the AEJ Best Paper Award. The deadline for nominations was February 15, 2024. Winners will be announced in April.
2024
Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes
Manasi Deshpande, Tal Gross, and Yalun Su
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 13, No. 2, April 2021
The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes
Barbara Biasi
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 13, No. 3, August 2021
The Transmission of Monetary Policy Shocks
Silvia Miranda-Agrippino and Giovanni Ricco
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, July 2021
A Reputational Theory of Firm Dynamics
Simon Board and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 14, No. 2, May 2022
2023
Enghin Atalay (L) and Daniel Tannenbaum (center) receiving AEJ:Applied Economics Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Phai Phongthiengtham and Sebastian Sotelo) | Oyebola Okunogbe receiving AEJ:Economic Policy Best Paper Award (not pictured: Victor Pouliquen) | |
Christopher Conlon (center) and Michael Sinkinson (R) receiving AEJ:Microeconomics Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Matthew Backus) | |
Morten Olsen receiving AEJ:Macroeconomics Best Paper Award (not pictured: David Hémous) |
The Evolution of Work in the United States
Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, Sebastian Sotelo, and Daniel Tannenbaum
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 12, No. 2, April 2020
Technology, Taxation, and Corruption: Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing
Oyebola Okunogbe and Victor Pouliquen
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 14, No. 1, February 2022
The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation, and Income Inequality
David Hémous and Morten Olsen
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 14, No. 1, January 2022
Common Ownership in America: 1980 – 2017
Matthew Backus, Christopher Conlon, and Michael Sinkinson.
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, August 2021
2022
Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments
Rachael Meager
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 11, No. 1, January 2019
Carbon Taxes and CO2 Emissions: Sweden as a Case Study
Julius J. Andersson
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 11, No. 4, November 2019
Higher Taxes at the Top: The Role of Entrepreneurs
Bettina Brüggemann
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, July 2021
Is No News (Perceived As) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure
Ginger Zhe Jin
Michael Luca
Daniel Martin
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 13, No. 2, May 2021
2021
Social Media and Corruption
Ruben Enikolopov
Maria Petrova
Konstantin Sonin
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 10, No. 1, January 2018
How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree
Martin Watzinger
Thomas A. Fackler
Markus Nagler
Monika Schnitzer
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 12, No. 4, November 2020
Deconstructing Monetary Policy Surprises – The Role of Information Shocks
Marek JarociĆski
Peter Karadi
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 12, No. 2, April 2020
Who Benefits from Information Disclosure? The Case of Retail Gasoline
Fernando Luco
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 11, No. 2, May 2019
2020
Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark
Henrik Klevin
Camille Landais
Jakob Egholt Søgaard
AEJ: Applied Economics, 11 (4)
Who is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs
Manasi Deshpande
Yue Li
AEJ: Economic Policy, 11 (4)
A Model of Secular Stagnation: Theory and Quantitative Evaluation
Gauti Eggertsson
Neil R. Mehrotra
Jacob Robbins
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 11 (1)
Discrimination via Symmetric Auctions
Rahul Deb
Mallesh Pai
AEJ: Microeconomics, 9 (1)
2019
Expertise versus Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH
Danielle Li
AEJ: Applied Economics, 9 (2)
Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture
Marshall Burke and Kyle Emerick
AEJ: Economic Policy, 8 (3)
The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Markus Poschke
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 10 (3)
A Pseudo-Market Approach to Allocation with Priorities
Yinghua He, Antonio Miralles, Marek Pycia, and Jianye Yan
AEJ: Microeconomics, 10 (3)
(L to R) Janet Yellen and 2019 recipients Danielle Li, Kyle Emerick (co-author Marshall Burke not present), Markus Poschke, Yinghua He and Jianye Yan (co-authors Antonio Miralles and Marek Pycia not present)
2018
The Persistent Effect of Temporary Affirmative Action
Conrad Miller
AEJ: Applied Economics, 9 (3)
Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health
Hilary Hoynes, Doug Miller and David Simon
AEJ: Economic Policy, 7 (1)
Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 9 (4)
Collective Self-Control
Alessandro Lizzeri and Leeat Yariv
AEJ: Microeconomics, 9 (3)
Barbara Petrongolo (L) and L. Rachel Ngai (center) receiving AEJ:Macro Best Paper Awards |
David Simon and Hilary Hoynes receiving AEJ:Policy Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Doug Miller) |
Conrad Miller receiving AEJ:Applied Best Paper Award |
Alessandro Lizzeri receiving AEJ:Micro Best Paper Award (not pictured: Leeat Yariv) |
2017
- Market-Based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy
- Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Durante, Brian Knight, and Eliana La Ferrara
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 8 (1)
- Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
- Fiona Murray, Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Julian Kolev, and Scott Stern
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 8 (1)
- Understanding the Great Recession
- Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin S. Eichenbaum, and Mathias Trabandt
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 7 (1)
- Investing in Skill and Searching for Coworkers: Endogenous Participation in a Matching Market
- Chris Bidner, Guillaume Roger and Jessica Moses
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 8 (1)
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Ruben Durante and Stefano DellaVigna, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award (not pictured: Brian Knight and Eliana La Ferrara)
Philippe Aghion and Julian Kolev, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award (not pictured: Fiona Murray, Mathias Dewatripont, and Scott Stern)
Martin S. Eichenbaum and Lawrence J. Christiano, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper Award (not pictured: Mathias Trabandt)
2016
- Legal Status and the Criminal Activity of Immigrants
- Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Paolo Pinotti
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 7 (2)
- Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition, and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service
- Martin Gaynor, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, and Carol Propper
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 5 (4)
- Monetary Policy Surprises, Credit Costs, and Economic Activity
- Mark Gertler, Peter Karadi
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 7 (1)
- Nonlinear Pricing of Storable Goods
- Igal Hendel, Alessandro Lizzeri, and Nikita Roketskiy
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 6 (3)
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Martin Gaynor, recipient of the 2016 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award (not pictured: Rodrigo Moreno-Serra and Carol Propper)
Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Paolo Pinotti, recipients of the 2016 AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award
2015
- Real Wage Inequality
- Enrico Moretti
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 5 (1)
- Measuring the Output Responses to Fiscal Policy
- Alan J. Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 4 (2)
- Credit Risk and Disaster Risk
- François Gourio
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 5 (3)
- Observational Learning and Demand for Search Goods
- Kenneth Hendricks, Alan Sorensen and Thomas Wiseman
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 4 (1)
Enrico Moretti, recipient of the 2015 AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award |
François Gourio, recipient of the 2015 AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper Award |
Kenneth Hendricks, recipient of the 2015 AEJ: Microeconomics Best Paper Award (Alan Sorensen and Thomas Wiseman, not pictured) |
Alan J. Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko, recipients of the 2015 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award |
2014
- Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
- Pascaline Dupas
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 3 (1)
- Corruption Dynamics: The Golden Goose Effect
- Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukhtankar
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 5 (4)
- Marginal Jobs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Unemployment Flows
- Michael W. L. Elsby and Ryan Michaels
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 5 (1)
- Set-Asides and Subsidies in Auctions
- Susan Athey, Dominic Coey, and Jonathan Levin
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 5 (1)
2013
- The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession
- Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter, Andrew Heisz
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 4 (1)
- Does State Fiscal Relief During Recessions Increase Employment? Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Laura Feiveson, Zachary Liscow, William Gui Woolston
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 4 (3)
- How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
- Jennifer Hunt and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 2 (2)
- Information Disclosure and Unraveling in Matching Markets
- Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 2 (2)
2012
- Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence on Poverty from India
- Petia Topalova
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 2 (4)
- Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance
- Raj Chetty
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 1 (2)
- Simple Analytics of the Government Expenditure Multiplier
- Michael Woodford
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 3 (1)
- Strategy Entry Deterrence and the Behavior of Pharmaceutical Incumbents Prior to Patent Expiration
- Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 3 (1)
2011
- Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure
- Hoyt Bleakley
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 2 (2)
- Do Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points?
- Emmanuel Saez
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 2 (3)
- A Century of Work and Leisure
- Valerie Ramey and Neville Francis
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 1 (2)
- Dynamic Revenue Maximization with Heterogeneous Objects: A Mechanism Design Approach
- Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 1 (2)