ECONOMIC INQUIRY
Published since 1962, Economic Inquiry is regarded as one of the top scholarly journals in economics. The journal has published many high-quality papers over the years including more than twenty Nobel laureates.
The goal of Economic Inquiry is to advance scientific knowledge in the domain of economics. As such we seek to publish work across all fields in economics. Any high-quality work will be considered with no prejudice for or against any particular methodology or nature of results. The main criteria for publication is the degree to which a paper advances scientific knowledge in its area. As a general interest journal, we strongly encourage authors to write their papers in a manner such that their work is accessible to economists who are not specialists in the article’s topic area. This is important for a general interest journal like EI which serves a broad audience and when authors write their work in this way it has the possibility of maximizing their contribution to the broader discipline.
Economic Inquiry's most recent rankings are as follows:
EIGENFACTOR
.00495
in economic journals
ARTICLE INFLUENCE
1.141
in economic journals
IMPACT FACTOR
1.8 / 1.7
5-Year/2-Year
ISI RANKING
256 / 597
in economic journals
Editor
- Tim Salmon, Southern Methodist University [Editor's Statement]
Co-Editors
- Stefano Barbieri, Tulane University
- Joydeep Bhattacharya, Iowa State University
- Farasat Bokhari, Loughborough University
- Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University
- Davin Chor, Dartmouth College
- Philip Curry, University of Waterloo
- Ana Espinola-Arredondo, Washington State University
- Silke Forbes, Tulane University
- Laura Gee, Tufts University
- Lester Lusher, University of Pittsburgh
- Qinglai Meng, Oregon State University
- Steven Ongena, University of Zurich
- A. Abigail Payne, The University of Melbourne
- Joel Rodrigue, Vanderbilt University
- Georg Schaur, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
- Danila Serra, Texas A&M University
- Cathy Zhang, Purdue University
- Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Auburn University
Specialized Co-Editors
- Ted Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara (publishing and public economics)
- Andrew Caplin, New York University (model-based approaches to non-standard data)
- Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon (culture and demography, social preferences and inequality)
- Maggie Chen, George Washington University (multinational firms and international trade)
- Delia Furtado, University of Connecticut (labor and demographic economics)
- Tony Kwasnica, Pennsylvania State University (experimental, auctions, and information)
- Javaeria Qureshi, University of Illinois at Chicago (labor, education and health)
- Robert Simmons, Lancaster University (sports and labor)
- Dietrich Vollrath, University of Houston (growth, development and macro)
Associate Editors
- Michael Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Neha Bairoliya, University of Southern California
- Jason Blevins, Ohio State University
- Benjamin Bushong, Michigan State University
- Robert Butler, University College Cork
- Santanu Chatterjee, University of Georgia
- Amanda Chuan, Michigan State University
- Utteeyo Dasgupta, Fordham University
- Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto
- Bernhard Ganglmair, University of Mannheim and ZEW
- Ahmad Lashkaripour, Indiana University
- Shanthi Manian, Washington State University
- Franco Mariuzzo, University of East Anglia
- Felix Munoz-Garcia, Washington State University
- Ayse Sapci, Utah State University
- Tatevik Sekhposyan, Texas A&M University
- Olga Stoddard, Brigham Young University
- Rebecca Taylor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
- Trevor Tombe, University of Calgary
- Ia Vardishvili, Auburn University
- Nam Vu, Miami University
- Woan Foong Wong, University of Oregon
- Nicholas Wright, Florida International University
- Jiabin Wu, University of Oregon
- Feng Yao, West Virginia University
Past Editors
- 1962-1966: Lawrence Nabers & Jewell J. Rasmussen
- 1966-1969: Harold Somers & Alice Vandermeulen
- 1969-1973: Alice Vandermeulen
- 1973-1980: Robert W. Clower
- 1981-1983: Thomas E. Borcherding, John F. Chant & Arthur S. DeVany
- 1984: Thomas E. Borcherding & John F. Chant
- 1985-1989: Thomas E. Borcherding
- 1990-1997: Frank C. Wykoff
- 1997-2001: William S. Neilson
- 2002-2007: Dennis W. Jansen
- 2008-2012: R. Preston McAfee
- 2013-2021: Wesley W. Wilson
Economic Inquiry requires that authors of all published empirical papers provide enough detail on their work so that their results can be replicated. It is expected that data from empirical papers will be uploaded into a suitable archive and that instructions be included with the data necessary for an interested party to reconstruct key tables and figures from the published manuscript. As you might imagine, such an undertaking requires the dedication of a team of experts to review data packages, test code, replicate results, retest edited data packages, and so on. The following is that team of experts to whom we are most grateful:
Data Editor
- Farasat Bokhari, Loughborough University
Assistant Data Editor
- Thomas Triebs, Loughborough University
Data RAs
- Alizee Cambier, PhD Student, Loughborough University
- Yuche Gong, PhD Student, Loughborough University
- Amir Jafarzadeh, PhD Student, University of East Anglia
- George Lagios, PhD Student, Loughborough University
- Janithe Siriwardana, PhD Student, University of East Anglia
- Junjun Zhang, PhD Student, University of East Anglia
Best EI Article Award Winners
- 2023: "The Long-run Agglomeration Effects of Early Agriculture in Europe" by Andrew Dickens and Nils-Petter Lagerlöf
- 2022: “The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the US Labor Market: The COVID Motherhood Penalty” by Kenneth A. Couch, Robert W. Fairlie, Huanan Xu
- 2021: “The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics” by Nick Huntington-Klein, Andreu Arenas, Emily Beam, Marco Bertoni, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Pralhad Burli, Naibin Chen, Paul Grieco, Godwin Ekpe, Todd Pugatch, Martin Saavedra, and Yaniv Stopnitzky
- 2020: “Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits: Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?” by Cory S. Capps, Dennis W. Carlton, and Guy David
- 2019: “Who Wins in an Energy Boom? Evidence from Wage Rates and Housing” by Grant D. Jacobsen
- 2018: “Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life” by Edward L. Glaeser, Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik
- 2017: “The Effect of Minimum Wages on Employment: A Factor Model Approach” by Evan Totty
- 2016: “Reconciling Micro and Macro Estimates of the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity” by William B. Peterman
- 2015: “Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Antisocial and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents” by Jessica Wolpaw
- 2014: “Reputation Effects in the Market of Certifiers: Evidence from the Audit Industry” by Áron Tóth
- 2013: “Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data” by Dennis Novy
- 2012: “Modeling Informality Formally: Households and Firms” by Sebastian Galiani and Federico Weinschelbaum
- 2011: “A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation” by Li Gan, Roberton C. Williams III, and Thomas Wiseman
- 2010: “Not All Rivals Look Alike: Estimating an Equilibrium Model of the Release Date Timing Game” by Liran Einav
- 2009: “The Effects of Financial Education in the Workplace: Evidence from a Survey of Employers” by Patrick J. Bayer, B. Douglas Bernheim, and John Karl Scholz
- 2008: “What Determines Corruption? International Evidence from Microdata” by Naci Mocan
- 2007: “Theories of Commitment, Altruism and Reciprocity: Evidence from Linear Public Goods Games” by Rachel T. A. Croson
- 2006: “How Important are Capital and Total Factor Productivity for Economic Growth?” by Scott Baier, Gerry P. Dwyer Jr., and Robert Tamura
- 2005: “Labor Market Search and Optimal Retirement Policy” by Joydeep Battacharya, Casey Mulligan, and Robert Reed
Outstanding Reviewer Service Award Winners
- 2023: Erik Kimbrough, Chapman University
- 2022: Brian Duncan, University of Colorado Denver; Punarjit Roychowdhury, Shiv Nadar University
- 2021: Olena Ivus, Queen's University; Mario Larch, University of Bayreuth; Bartin Willage, Louisiana State University
- 2020: Amrita Dhar, University of Mary Washington; Inga Heiland, University of Oslo; Jame Sears, University of California, Berkeley
- 2019: Mariana Carrera, Montana State University; Gregory DeAngelo, Claremont Graduate University; Marta Lachowska, Upjohn Institute
- 2018: Jason R. Blevins, Ohio State University; Ross Doppelt, Penn State University; Daniel B. Jones, University of South Carolina