Empirical methods Prescriptive and policy Articles in economics journals are usually classified according to JEL classification codes, which derive from the Journal of Economic Literature.
The AEA maintains EconLit, a searchable data base of citations for articles, books, reviews, dissertations, and working papers classified by JEL codes for the years from 1969.
A recent addition to EconLit is indexing of economics journal articles from 1886 to 1968[1] parallel to the print series Index of Economic Articles.
[2] Developed in the context of the Journal of Economic Literature, the JEL classification system became a standard method of classifying economics literature, including journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers in economics, book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature, and EconLit.
Links to definitions of (sub)categories are at JEL Classification Codes Guide with corresponding examples of article titles linked to publication information, such as abstracts.