The EEA encourages young economists to enter the EEA2002 Young Economist Competition, which will grant an honorific award to young author(s) of the best papers submitted to the EEA2002 Congress. Authors must declare their intent to be considered in the competition when completing the online portion of the submission.

Submitting authors eligible for the competition must meet one of the following criteria:
 1) under 30 years of age, or
 2) no more than 3 years past a PhD defence.

In the case of co-authored papers, ALL authors must be individually eligible.