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Research Highlights

AEA Research Highlights feature selected articles published in the AEA journals.

Podcasts — Interviews with AEA authors discussing their work.
Articles — Summaries of AEA articles, based on interviews with the authors.
Featured Charts — Illumination of graphs from AEA journal articles.

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Research Highlights Podcast

Immigration politics

February 2, 2022
Anna Maria Mayda discusses how the skill level of foreign workers influences native voters in the United States.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

The income gap in China

January 26, 2022
Is there a correlation between urban–rural income disparity and overall inequality?
Research Highlights Article

Career training

January 24, 2022
What are the long-run impacts of vocational education on labor market outcomes?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Fraud and the financial crisis

January 18, 2022
Were conflicts of interest the main driver behind the 2008 US housing bust?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Making healthy practices habitual

January 3, 2022
An experiment in rural India boosted handwashing through social and financial rewards.
Research Highlights Article

2021 in Research Highlights

December 30, 2021
Economists addressed the recovery of Southern wealth after the Civil War, why the United States has the best research universities, Facebook filters, and more.