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aej-economic-policy
Use when targeting American Economic Journal: Economic Policy or deciding whether a policy-relevant applied economics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (aej-economic-policy)
## Journal positioning
AEJ: Economic Policy is the American Economic Association's field home for policy-relevant applied economics one tier below AER's general-interest bar. It publishes credible evaluations of public, health, education, environmental, and tax/transfer policy — work where the identification is sound and the magnitudes speak directly to a policy question. The contribution is the policy lesson backed by clean causal evidence; this is the home for excellent policy-evaluation papers that are narrower than an AER general-interest swing.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the AEA site and the editorial-manager submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author names AEJ: Policy as the target, or is stepping down from an AER policy submission.
- A paper credibly evaluates a policy — tax, transfer, regulation, public program, health, education, environment — with policy-relevant magnitudes.
- A strong applied paper has a clear policy reading and needs a venue that prizes policy relevance plus identification.
- The author needs AEJ: Policy's desk-reject risks and a credible AER / public-economics alternative list.