JEL Classification Codes Guide

The information on these pages is to provide helpful reference information and guidelines about the JEL Classifications and the EconLit Subject Descriptors.

You can drill down to the more detailed secondary level of classifications by clicking on the JEL code links (for example, A3, H7); these contain more descriptive guidelines, keywords, and also examples of items with that specific classification.

A General Economics and Teaching

B History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches

C Mathematical and Quantitative Methods

D Microeconomics

E Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

F International Economics

G Financial Economics

H Public Economics

I Health, Education, and Welfare

J Labor and Demographic Economics

K Law and Economics

L Industrial Organization

M Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting

N Economic History

O Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth

P Economic Systems

Q Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics

R Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics

Y Miscellaneous Categories

Z Other Special Topics

R	Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics
Guideline:	Covers studies about issues treated in urban, rural, and regional economics (R1, R2, R3, and R5), and transportation economics (R4). Topics in regional economics (including urban and rural) are subdivided into four areas: R1 (General), R2 (Household Demography and Labor), R3 (Production and Firm, Housing Markets), and R5 (Government). Studies about issues related to household, demography, and labor should be cross-classified under the appropriate categories in R2 and other appropriate non-R2 categories if they are relevant, including categories in D1,J, O15 or O18 if related to economic development, or P25 or P36 if related to socialist or transitional economies. Studies about the firm should similarly be cross-classified under the appropriate R3 categories and under other appropriate non-R3 categories, including D2, L2, O12, O18, P25 or P31, if relevant.
Keywords:
R00	General
R000	Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: General
Guideline:	Covers studies about general issues related to regional economics and transportation economics, including survey articles and textbooks.