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aej-applied-economics
Use when targeting American Economic Journal: Applied Economics or deciding whether an applied micro 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: Applied Economics (aej-applied-economics)
## Journal positioning
AEJ: Applied Economics is the American Economic Association's home for empirical applied microeconomics one tier below AER's general-interest bar. It publishes credible, well-identified empirical work — labor, development, health, education, and adjacent applied fields — where the design is clean and the economic magnitudes are meaningful. The contribution can be field-specific rather than discipline-wide, but the identification and execution must be top-quality; this is where excellent applied micro that is "too narrow for AER" belongs.
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: Applied as the target, or is stepping down from an AER applied-micro submission.
- A paper has a credible quasi-experimental or field-experimental design in labor, development, health, or education with meaningful magnitudes.
- A strong applied paper is excellent but narrower than AER's general-interest bar and needs the right applied home.
- The author needs AEJ: Applied's desk-reject risks and a credible AER / applied-field alternative list.