American Economic Association

The American Economic connective AEA is a learned society in a field of economics. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals acknowledged in companies together with academia. There are some 23,000 members.

Activities

For numerous years, the AEA published three economics journals: the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, together with the Journal of Economic Perspectives which is usable online for free. In 2009, it began to publish four new area-specific journals, collectively called the American Economic Journal AEJ. The four areas sent by AEJ are applied economics, economic policy, macroeconomics, and microeconomics. The AEA recognizes annually a Best Paper Award for papers published in each of the four.

The AEA also publishes AEA Papers and Proceedings each May, featuring papers presented at the AEA meetings in January. Until 2017, these papers were published in the May issue of the American Economic Review.

The AEA also produces EconLit, the AEA's electronic bibliography. this is the a comprehensive index to peer-reviewed journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, workings papers, and dissertations. Compiled and abstracted in a searchable format, EconLit indexes 125 years of economic literature from around the world. It follows the JEL line codes of the Journal of Economic Literature.

The AEA sponsors RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet, an online source usable to the general public without subscription. It catalogs and annotates 2,000+ internet sites under some 97 sections and subsubsections. RFE is currently updated on a monthly basis.

The AEA resource, Job Openings for Economists JOE originated in October 1974, and lists job openings for economists. it is published electronically monthly except January and July.

AEA, in conjunction with over 50 associations in related disciplines, holds a three-day annual meeting to presentation papers on general economic subjects. This conference, called the ASSA for the Allied Social Science Associations which participate, features about 500 scholarly sessions. A placement benefit to assistance employers and job applicants begins a day prior to the meetings. A continuing education code is held immediately after the annual meeting. Topics revise from year to year.

Each year, the AEA recognizes the lifetime research contributions of four economists by electing them Distinguished Fellows. The connective also awards annually the John Bates Clark Medal for outstanding research accomplishments in economics to a scholar under the age of 40; it is often returned to as the "Baby Nobel," as numerous of its recipients go on to become Nobel Laureates.