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2022 Best Article Award THE EVOLVING IMPACTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE US LABOR MARKET: THE COVID MOTHERHOOD PENALTY Kenneth A. Couch, University of Connecticut, Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Huanan Xu, Indiana University South Bend

April 2023 Issue Featured Article MEASURING THE WELFARE COSTS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE LABOR MARKET Almarina Gramozi, King's College London, Theodore Palivos, Athens University of Economics and Business, and Marios Zachariadis, University of Cyprus

Call for Papers on Upcoming Special Issue on Reproducibility and Recent Symposia Brought to you by the Editors of Economic Inquiry Topics include Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics, New Energy Economics, Consumer Protection, Contemporary Banking, Marijuana Legalization, Social Dilemmas, Contests, Big Data, and more to come...

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Economic Inquiry's most recent rankings are as follows:

EIGENFACTOR

.00632

in economics journals

ARTICLE INFLUENCE

1.150

in economics journals

IMPACT FACTOR

2.095/1.710

5-Year/2-Year

ISI RANKING

236/379

in economics journals

Best EI Article Awards

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

Editorial Board

Editor

Tim Salmon
Southern Methodist University

Message From The Editor

Co-Editors

D. Mark Anderson
Montana State University

Stefano Barbieri
Tulane University

Farasat Bokhari
University of East Anglia

Areendam Chanda
Louisiana State University

Davin Chor
Dartmouth College

Philip Curry
University of Waterloo

Ana Espinola-Arredondo
Washington State University

Emel Filiz-Ozbay
University of Maryland

Silke Forbes
Tufts University

Laura Gee
Tufts University

Lester Lusher
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Qinglai Meng
Oregon State University

Steven Ongena
University of Zurich

Abigail Payne
University of Melbourne

Georg Schaur
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Danila Serra
Texas A&M University

David P. Sims
Brigham Young University

Nicolas L. Ziebarth
Auburn University

Specialized Co-Editors

Ted Bergstrom
University of California, Santa Barbara (Economics of Publishing, and Public Economics

William A. Branch
University of California, Irvine (DSGE Models and Bounded Rationality)

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)

Tony Kwasnica
Pennsylvania State University (Experimental Economics, Auctions, and Information)

Jason Lindo
Texas A&M University (Health Economics, Public Economics and Policy)

Keith E. Maskus
University of Colorado, Boulder (International Trade, Development and Intellectual Property Rights and International Economics)

Robert Simmons
Lancaster University (Sports Economics and Labor)

Dietrich Vollrath
University of Houston (Economic Growth, Development, Macroeconomics)

Glen R. Waddell
University of Oregon (Education and Policy Evaluation, Labor and Public Economics)

Cathy Zhang
Purdue University (Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy and Financial Economics)

Associate Editors

Michael Andrews
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Neha Bairoliya
University of Southern California

Jason Blevins
Ohio State University

Robert Butler
University College Cork

Santanu Chatterjee
University of Georgia

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

Joel Rodrigue
Vanderbilt University

Tatevik Sekhposyan
Texas A&M University

Trevor Tombe
University of Calgary

Ia Vardishvili
Auburn University

Nam Vu
Miami University

Woan Foong Wong
University of Oregon

Jiabin Wu
University of Oregon

Feng Yao
West Virginia University

Past Editors

Wesley W. Wilson
2013-2021

R. Preston McAfee
2008-2012

Dennis W. Jansen
2002-2007

William S. Neilson
1997-2001

Frank C. Wykoff
1990-1997

Thomas E. Borcherding
1985-1989

Thomas E. Borcherding /&/ John F. Chant
1984

Thomas E. Borcherding, John F. Chant /&/ Arthur S. DeVany
1981-1983

Robert W. Clower
1973-1980

Alice Vandermeulen
1969-1973

Harold Somers /&/ Alice Vandermeulen
1966-1969

Lawrence Nabers /&/ Jewell J. Rasmussen
1962-1966

Editorial Office

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phone: 714.965.8800

Featured

EIGENFACTOR

ARTICLE INFLUENCE

IMPACT FACTOR

ISI RANKING

“The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics”

“Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits: Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?”

“Who Wins in an Energy Boom? Evidence from Wage Rates and Housing”

“Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life”

“The Effect of Minimum Wages on Employment: A Factor Model Approach”

“Reconciling Micro and Macro Estimates of the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity”

“Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Antisocial and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents”

“Reputation Effects in the Market of Certifiers: Evidence from the Audit Industry”

“Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data”

“Modeling Informality Formally: Households and Firms”

“A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation”

“Not All Rivals Look Alike: Estimating an Equilibrium Model of the Release Date Timing Game”

“The Effects of Financial Education in the Workplace: Evidence from a Survey of Employers”

“What Determines Corruption? International Evidence from Microdata”

“Theories of Commitment, Altruism and Reciprocity: Evidence from Linear Public Goods Games”

“How Important are Capital and Total Factor Productivity for Economic Growth?”

“Labor Market Search and Optimal Retirement Policy”