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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics: Submissions

Submission Policy

Any paper submitted to the AEJ: Applied Economics should NOT be under consideration for publication at another journal. All submitted papers must also represent original work, and should fully reference and describe all prior work on the same subject and compare the submitted paper to that work.

Submission fees must be paid by credit card at the time of submission. We are unable to review manuscripts that have been previously rejected by the AEJ: Applied Economics. The AEJ: Applied Economics reserves the right to reject papers without review.

Authors should also indicate, either in their cover letter or in the title page referred to below or both, whether the research reported in their paper was the result of a for-pay consulting relationship or if they or their employer has a financial interest in the topic of the paper which might constitute a conflict of interest.

Source information for tables, figures, maps, photos, and other artwork should be mentioned in the captions. For material that is copyrighted, you must obtain a letter of permission from the copyright holder. In the US, Canada, EU countries, and Japan, copyright is automatically granted for photos to the owner(s) of the photos.

Policy on Papers Previously Submitted to the AER

The American Economic Journals will consider papers previously reviewed by the American Economic Review. Authors of manuscripts previously reviewed by the AER may request that, subject to the referees' agreement, the full correspondence files of the AER referees (including cover letters as well as referees' reports) be shared with the editors of the AEJ to which the author is applying (AEJ: Applied Economics, AEJ: Economic Policy, AEJ: Macroeconomics, or AEJ: Microeconomics), who will have the discretion to make a decision based on these reports or to request additional reports.

If you wish to take advantage of this option answer YES to the question on the online submission form asking " Has your paper previously been submitted to the AER, and if yes, would you like to request the materials from your AER review be forwarded to the AEJ editors?" If you DO NOT wish the AEJ editors to see the file of a paper previously submitted to the AER, answer NO to the question. When such a request has been made, the AEJ staff will contact each referee to obtain his or her permission, and if it is granted, will forward all referee correspondence to the AEJ editor.

If an author chooses to ask the AEJ editor to use the AER referee reports and correspondence, it is not necessary to change the paper in response to the AER referee comments at this stage. However, if you do change it, also separately upload the original version of the paper that was sent to the AER and a letter detailing the changes you made and choose the file designation 'Misc. (for review).'

Submission Fees

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Members of the AEA: $100

Nonmembers: $200

Members working in certain low-income countries are permitted lower fees.

Submission payments through the electronic system must be made by credit card.  If you have any questions, contact the Editorial Office at aejinfo@aeapubs.org or call 412-432-2300.

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Submission Instructions

1. Manuscripts should not exceed 50 pages double-spaced. This limit includes reference lists, figures, and tables.
   
   
2. Manuscripts must use 12-point font. Margins must be one inch top, bottom, and sides. Please use Times New Roman or similar font. These font, margin, and line-spacing requirements also apply to reference lists and tables.
   
   Note: If you are a LaTeX user, please use the "review mode" in our templates to format your manuscript:
   http://www.aeaweb.org/templates/latex_templates.zip
   http://www.aeaweb.org/templates/sw_templates.zip
   
   
3. You must include the words “Not for Publication” at the beginning of any lengthy appendix. The 50-page limit can be exceeded by an appendix if it is clearly marked as such.
   
   
4. Please submit a PDF of the manuscript. Also, submit a title page with each author's name and contact information, and including any acknowledgements that have appeared in previous working papers as a separate PDF. This page will not be sent to the referees.
   
   
5. Authors should not be identified anywhere in the paper. This includes links to data sets or appendices that are posted on the individual Web pages of the author(s).
   
   
6. Remove all acknowledgements.
   
   
7. Include an abstract of 100 or fewer words.
   
   
8. Fully reference all prior work on the same subject and compare the submitted paper to that work.
   
   
9. All data used in analysis MUST be clearly and precisely documented.
   
   
10. All data used in analysis MUST be made available to any researcher for purposes of replication. See Data Availability Policy.
    
    
11. Any requests for an exemption from the data availability policy MUST be made in the cover letter when the paper is first submitted.
    
    
12. A reference list is required. See Sample References for the correct format. Be sure to cite papers with names and titles as they appear in the published article.

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