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.

AEJ Best Paper Medals

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 JarociƄski
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)

2019 AEJ Best Paper Winners
(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


  • 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

2015


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

2013

2011