To: Members of the American Economic Association
From: Peter L. Rousseau, Secretary-Treasurer
Subject: Annual Elections, Awards and Other Announcements

AEA Annual Elections. The Nominating Committee, consisting of Alvin Roth (Chair), William Darity, Jr., Erica Field, Kristin Forbes, Rebecca Henderson, Hilary Hoynes, Guido Imbens, and Lawrence Katz, submitted its nominations for vice presidents and elected members of the Executive Committee on April 24. The Electoral College, consisting of the Nominating Committee and the Executive Committee's voting members together, then selected the nominee for president-elect.

The 2020 slate of candidates for 2021 officers is:

President-elect
Christina Romer

Vice Presidents
Katherine Baicker
Kerwin Charles
David Cutler
Shelly Lundberg

Executive Committee Members
Sandra Black
Peter Henry
Emi Nakamura
Rohini Pande

Please watch for more information on the candidates. Balloting opens August 1, 2020.

Congratulations to the 2020 John Bates Clark Medalist Melissa Dell. Awarded annually to an economist under the age of 40, the John Bates Clark Medal recognizes outstanding research accomplishments in economics. Please join the AEA Electoral College, consisting of the Association's Honors and Awards Committee and voting members of the Executive Committee, in congratulating Melissa Dell of Harvard University. To find out more or to see a list of Clark Medal recipients, go to https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/bates-clark.

The 2020 AEA Distinguished Fellows are Katharine Abraham, Shelly Lundberg, Paul Milgrom, and Whitney Newey. The Distinguished Fellow award recognizes the lifetime research contributions of four distinguished economists each year. A list of current and past Distinguished Fellows is available at https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/distinguished-fellows.

The Foreign Honorary Members for 2020 are Jordi Gali of Spain, Rachel Griffith of the United Kingdom, Fumio Hayashi of Japan, and Thomas Piketty of France. These International honorees of distinction are elected by the American Economic Association's Executive Committee. A list of current Foreign Honorary Members is available at https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/foreign-honorary-members.

The annual American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Awards highlight the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics over the last three years. Nominations are provided by AEA members, and winners are selected by the journals' Boards of Editors. Complimentary full-text articles are available at https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/aej-best-papers.

AEJ: Applied Economics: "Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark," by Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, and Jakob Egholt Søgaard 11(4), (pp. 181-209) October 2019

AEJ: Economic Policy: "Who is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs," by Manasi Deshpande and Yue Li 11(4), (pp. 213-48) November 2019

AEJ: Macroeconomics: "A Model of Secular Stagnation: Theory and Quantitative Evaluation," by Gauti B. Eggertsson, Neil R. Mehrotra, and Jacob A. Robbins 11(1), (pp. 1-48) January 2019

AEJ: Microeconomics: "Discrimination via Symmetric Auctions," by Rahul Deb and Mallesh M. Pai 9(1), (pp. 275-314) February 2017

AEA Editor Transition. The AEA Executive Committee is pleased to announce the appointment of Heidi Williams of Stanford University as the new lead editor for the Journal of Economic Perspectives beginning January 2021. We wish to thank outgoing Editor Enrico Moretti for his outstanding efforts devoted to making the Journal of Economic Perspectives included among the most respected scholarly journals in economics.

The AEA's new Best Practices for Economists: Building a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Productive Profession at https://www.aeaweb.org/resources/best-practices offers guidelines for professional activity in four areas: conducting research, serving as colleagues, working with students, and leading departments and workplaces. Click through to find practical suggestions for implementation, summaries of supporting research, and links to a multitude of online resources.

The AEA Ombudsperson is available and ready to assist our members. The AEA has engaged Leto Copeley to serve in this critical role. As an attorney, Ms. Copeley will maintain the information received with the utmost confidentiality possible. The goal is for the ombudsperson to be a resource for addressing issues of harassment and discrimination throughout the profession. Any AEA member is eligible to consult with the ombudsperson on matters involving harassment or discrimination in a professional context. For more information, visit https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/aea-ombudsperson.

Call for Artists. The program cover for the ASSA annual meeting often features artwork by economists or their spouses. Please contact us if you would like to see your artwork on a cover or have suggestions for future covers. Artwork can be provided in any medium that can be photographed. If selected, a color transparency, slide, or photograph (color or black and white) will be required. There is no remuneration, just the honor of having your work recognized. Send suggestions by July 1, 2020 to: gwyn.p.loftis@vanderbilt.edu or ASSA Cover, American Economic Association, 2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, Tennessee 37203.

New Updates to the AEA RCT Registry. With over 3,400 studies from 142 countries, the registry is the primary source for ongoing and completed randomized controlled trials (RCT) in economics and the social sciences. All registry data are now available for download through the AEA RCT Registry Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/aearegistry). To learn more about data availability, see the Trial Data Access page (https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/site/data). In August 2019, the Registry introduced  Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and DOI versioning (https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/site/version) for all existing and new trial registrations. DOIs provide entries with greater discoverability and provenance, and will help when citing your trial. The AEA RCT Registry is a no-cost resource and an important step towards research transparency. Visit the website to register your trials today: https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/.