The Review of Economics and Statistics


The Review of Economics and Statistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers applied economics, with specific relevance to the scope of econometrics. The editors-in-chief are Will Dobbie and Raymond Fisman. The journal is over 100 years old.

History

The journal, founded initially as The Review of Economic Statistics at Harvard University in 1917, published its official “inaugural volume” in 1919. The journal obtained its current title in 1948.
As the first editor-in-chief, Charles J. Bullock remarked in his Prefatory Statement to the first issue that "the purpose of the Review is to promote the collection, criticism, and interpretation of economic statistics, with a view to making them more accurate and valuable than they are at present for business and scientific purposes."

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief:

Notable papers

The following papers have been cited most:
Date of PublicationVol & IssueTitle of ArticleAuthor
November 1, 200688:4The Log of GravityJ.M.C. Santos Silva, Silvana Tenreyro
February 1, 200284:1Propensity Score-Matching Methods for Nonexperimental Causal StudiesRajeev H. Dehejia, Sadek Wahba
August 1, 200890:3Bootstrap-Based Improvements for Inference with Clustered ErrorsA. Colin Cameron, Jonah B. Gelbach, Douglas L. Miller
November 1, 199880:4Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Spatially Dependent Panel DataJohn C. Driscoll, Aart C. Kraay
February 1, 200486:1Nonparametric Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Under Exogeneity: A ReviewGuido W. Imbens