Top 5 Economics Journals (since January 2024):
 

• Jason Blevins with A. Dearing: “Efficient and Convergent Sequential Pseudo-Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Games,” Review of Economic Studies, March 2025.

   

• Kyle Dempsey: "Capital Requirements with Non-Bank Finance,” Review of Economic Studies, published July 2025.
   
• Alex Hollingsworth with Krzysztof Karbownik, Melissa A. Thomasson, Anthony Wray: “The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality,” American Economic Review, July 2024. 
   

• Kurt Lavetti with Matthew S. Johnson and Michael Lipsitz: "The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility," Journal of Political Economy, September 2025.

   

• Gabriel Mihalache with Cristina Arellano and Yan Bai: "Monetary Policy and Sovereign Risk in Emerging Economies (NK-Default)," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2026.
   

• Tamar Oostrom: "Funding of Clinical Trials and Reported Drug Efficacy," Journal of Political Economy, August 2024.

   

• Myles Wagner with Mark Shepard: "Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment,” accepted at American Economic Review, March 2025.

Top Science Journals (since January 2024):
 

• Bruce A. Weinberg, Lane, Julia I., and Jason Owen-Smith: “How to track the economic impact of public investments in AI,” Nature, June 2024.

   

• Bruce A. Weinberg, Enrico Berkes, Monica Marion, Staša Milojević: “Slow convergence: Career impediments to interdisciplinary biomedical research,” Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, July 2024.

  
   

Top Field Economics Journals or Equivalent (since January 2024)
 

• Yaron Azrieli with Christopher Chambers: “Success functions in large contests,” Games and Economic Behavior, March 2026.

   

• Yaron Azrieli and John Reheck: “Marginal Stochastic Choice,” forthcoming at Theoretical Economics.

   

• Jason Blevins: “Identification and Estimation of Continuous-Time Dynamic Discrete Choice Games,” Quantitative Economics, February 2026.

   

• Jason Blevins with Minhae Kim: “Nested Pseudo Likelihood Estimation of Continuous-Time Dynamic Discrete Games,” Journal of Econometrics, January 2024.

   

• Meta Brown with Felipe Severino and Rajashri Chakrabarti: “Personal Bankruptcy Protection and Household Debt,” forthcoming at Review of Financial Studies.

   

• Meta Brown with Christopher Flinn and Jo Mullins: "Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment," Journal of Labor Economics, April 2025.

   

• Kyle Dempsey with Miguel Faria-e-Castro: “A Quantitative Analysis of Bank Lending Relationships,” accepted at the Journal of Financial Economics.

   

• Kyle Dempsey with Felicia Ionescu: “Default Risk and Pricing in the U.S. Credit Card Market,” accepted at the Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics.

   

• Josh Higbee with James B. McDonald: "A Comparison of the GB2 and Skewed Generalized Log-T Distributions with an Application in Finance," Journal of Econometrics, 2024.

• Alex Hollingsworth with Taylor Jaworski, Carl Kitchens, and Ivan Rudik: “Economic geography and air pollution regulation in the United States,” forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics.
   

• Trevon Logan with Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Stanley Ko, Yu-Chin Hsu and Jaromir Kovarik: “Non-Representative Sampled Networks: Estimation of Network Structural Properties by Weighting,” Journal of Econometrics, March 2024.

   

• Sean McCrary with Xavier Mateos-Planas, José Víctor Ríos-Rull and Adrien Wicht: "Commitment in the Canonical Sovereign Default Model," Journal of International Economics, September 2025.

   

• Gabriel Mihalache: “Comment on "On Wars Sanctions and Sovereign Defaults" by Javier Bianchi and César Sosa-Padilla,” Journal of Monetary Economics, January 2024.

   

• Gabriel Mihalache with Lei Li: “Default and Development,” Journal of International Economics, May 2025.
   

• John Rehbeck with Roy Allen: "Identification of random coefficient latent utility models," Quantitative Economics, November 2025.

   

• John Rehbeck with Roy Allen: "Satisficing, Aggregation, and Quasilinear Utility," forthcoming at Quantitative Economics.

   

• John Rehbeck with Roy Allen: "Latent Utility and Permutation Invariance: A Revealed Preference Approach," Journal of Econometrics, August 2024.

   

• Julia Thomas with Yuko Imura: “Productive Misallocation and International Transmission of Credit Shocks,” International Economic Review, September 2025.
   

• Bruce A. Weinberg with Wei Cheng: “Marginalized and Overlooked_ Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas,” Journal of Labor Economics, January 2025.

   

• Bruce A. Weinberg with John Ham, Brian Quistorff: “Geography and Innovation: Evidence from Nobel Laureates,” forthcoming at International Economic Review.
   
• Huanxing Yang with Qiang Gong and Yujing Xu: “Long-Term Competition for Product Awareness with Learning From Friends,” Rand Journal of Economics, July 2024.