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The Economic Journal is one of the founding journals of modern economics first published in 1891. The journal remains one of the top journals in the profession and provides a platform for high quality, innovative, and imaginative economic research, publishing papers in all fields of economics for a broad international readership.
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Call for Papers: Polarization in Field Experiments
The Economic Journal invites submissions for a special issue focused on field experiments exploring the causes, impacts, and potential solutions to political polarization.
Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2025.
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Call for Papers: Climate Change and Inequality Special Issue
The Economic Journal invites submissions to an upcoming special issue focusing on ‘Climate Change and Inequality’. It aims to publish papers on the frontier of dynamic, spatial, heterogeneous agents’ models for the study of the impact of climate change and climate policies.
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Prize-winning articles
The RES prize is the prize given for the best paper published in the year.
The Austin Robinson prize is awarded to the best paper published in The Economic Journal in a given year by an author (or multiple authors) who is (or are) within 5 years of receiving his or her (or their) PhD at the time of acceptance.
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Economic History Supplements: 1926 - 1940
A fascinating window into the past has been opened with the release of newly-digitalised Economic History supplements of The Economic Journal. The archives contain articles published between 1926 - 1940, covering studies in economic history and the history of economic thought.
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On the OUPblog
Fading signs of son preference
Son preference is a phenomenon that has strong historical roots in many western and non-western cultures. In some domains of life, is such preference already a thing of the past?
How paternity leave can help couples stay together
The birth of a child is accompanied by many changes in a couple’s life. The first few weeks and months are a time of acquiring new skills and creating new habits which allow parents to carry on with their other responsibilities while also caring for the new family member...
Natural disasters make people more religious
Philosophers once predicted that religion would die out as societies modernize. This has not happened. Today, more than four out of every five people on Earth believe in God. Religion seems to be serving a purpose that modernization does not replace...
How helping disabled people find employment affects the job market
Policy makers have long been concerned with helping people on disability benefits find some employment as this group has grown dramatically in recent decades. In the UK, as in several other countries, there are now many more people on disability benefits than on unemployment benefits...
Royal Economic Society Lectures
RES 2024 EJ Lecture: Benjamin Moll
Benjamin Moll delivered The Economic Journal Lecture, ‘Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics: Eight Lessons and a Challenge’ at the 2024 RES Annual Conference.
RES 2023 EJ Lecture: Valerie Ramey
At the 2023 RES Conference, Valerie Ramey delivered The Economic Journal Lecture: ‘Using Macro Counterfactuals to Assess Micro Estimates and Macro Models’.
RES 2022 EJ Lecture: Stefanie Stantcheva
Strefanie Stantcheva delivered The Economic Journal Lecture, ‘How People Think About the Economy’ at the 2022 RES Conference.
RES 2021 EJ Lecture: Matthew Gentzkow
At the 2021 RES Annual Conference, Matthew Gentzkow delivered The Economic Journal Lecture: ‘Digital Media and Wellbeing’’.
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The Editors of The Economic Journal welcome high-quality papers in economics from any field. Submissions should be technically well-crafted, make a substantial contribution to the subject, and be of broad interest to economists at large.
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Royal Economic Society
The Royal Economic Society is one of the oldest and most prestigious economic associations in the world. It is a learned society, founded in 1890 to promote the study of economic science. The Society publishes two leading Economic titles: The Economic Journal and The Econometrics Journal.
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