Benefits of being an ESA member

ESA membership provides access to the ESA's journals, the opportunity to register for ESA conferences, and the ability to vote in ESA elections. 

ESA memberships are on a calendar-year basis, that is, all memberships expire on 31 December. Concessionary rates are available for students (undergraduate, masters, and PhD) and those who are resident in a low- or middle-income country.  One-year, three-year, and five-year membership options are available for non-concessionary memberships.


Journal Access

Paid membership in the Economic Science Association includes electronic subscriptions to the archives of both Experimental Economics and Journal of the Economic Science Association for that calendar year.


Conference Registration

To register for an ESA conference, you must have a membership for the calendar year in which the conference is held.

Membership is not required to submit a talk for consideration for a conference.  If your talk is accepted, then to appear on the program you must register for the conference (and therefore also be an ESA member) no later than the early registration deadline.


Voting

The ESA holds open elections for its executive board and officers each spring. Individuals who have purchased their membership for the calendar year at the time of the elections are eligible to vote.


Current rates

The standard membership rate $50.

We offer a concessionary membership rate of $20 for:

  • Those who are currently enrolled as a doctoral, master's, or undergraduate student.  Post-doctoral researchers are not eligible for the concessionary rate.
  • Those who reside in a country not classified as high-income by the World Bank.  Eligibility is based on the country in which you reside and/or are employed, and not your country of origin or citizenship.


Policy on refunds and receipts/invoices

Memberships and registrations for conferences are non-refundable and non-transferable.  All sales are final.

Members are responsible for ensuring that the details on their membership or conference registration are correct, especially with regards to affiliation, address, or any tax or finance identifier numbers that must be present.  We are not able to issue custom or replacement invoices or receipts after the fact with different details.