The Quarterly Journal of Economics is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language. Edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, it covers all aspects of the field.
Manuscript Preparation:
Author Guidelines
Submit Now
Forthcoming Articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics
- “Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to Mechanizing Telephone Operation,” by James Feigenbaum and Daniel P. Gross
- “How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay,” by Martha J. Bailey, Thomas Helgerman, and Bryan A. Stuart
- “Discrimination in Multi-Phase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection,” E. Jason Baron, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr, Natalia Emanuel, Peter Hull, and Joseph Ryan
- “The Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality,” by Nina Roussille
- “Worker Beliefs about Outside Options,” by Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille, and Benjamin Schoefer
- “Machine Learning as a Tool for Scientific Discovery,” by Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan
- “Logs with Zeros? Some Problems and Solutions,” by Jiafeng Chen and Jonathan Roth
- “How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income,” by Mikhail Golosov, Michael Graber, Magne Mogstad, and David Novgorodsky
- “The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles' Zones of Choice,” by Christopher Campos and Caitlin Kearns
- “The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data,” by Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, and Michael Stepner
- “A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions,” by Jessica A. Wachter and Michael Jacob Kahana
- “Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline,” by Ali Hortaçsu, Olivia R. Natan, Hayden Parsley, Timothy Schwieg, and Kevin R. Williams
- “Monitoring for Waste: Evidence from Medicare Audits,” by Maggie Shi
- “Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020,” by Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick
- “The Evolution of Market Power in the U.S. Automobile Industry,” by Paul L.E. Grieco, Charles Murry, and Ali Yurukoglu
- “Grantmaking, Grading on a Curve, and the Paradox of Relative Evaluation in Nonmarkets,” by Jérôme Adda and Marco Ottaviani
- “Violence against Women at Work,” by Abi Adams-Prassl, Kristiina Huttunen, Emily Nix, and Ning Zhang