  How does economics research help in solving societal challenges? This brief
note sheds additional light on this question by providing ways to connect
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes and Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) of the United Nations. These simple linkages illustrate that the themes
of SDGs have corresponding JEL classification codes. As the mappings presented
here are necessarily imperfect and incomplete, there is plenty of room for
improvements. In an ideal world, there would be a JEL classification system for
SDGs, a separate JEL code for each of the 17 SDGs.
