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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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Room to grow

July 17, 2020
Are social insurance mandates holding back entrepreneurs?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Valuing past performance

July 15, 2020
How much do reference letters boost a job seeker's prospects for landing an interview?
Research Highlights Article

Promoting smaller families

July 13, 2020
Fertility rates are declining in poor countries. Family planning campaigns are part of the reason why.
Research Highlights Podcast

Autocracies in the information age

July 8, 2020
UCLA professor Daniel Treisman discusses how today’s dictators retain their power and how to fight back.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

The tyranny of the top five

July 6, 2020
Is there too much pressure to publish in the highest-ranked journals?
Research Highlights Article

Regulation by shaming

July 2, 2020
Publicizing safety violations at one company has ripple effects that lead to improvements at other workplaces.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Seeking equity outside academia

July 1, 2020
Is the economics profession’s pay gap different when working for the government?
Research Highlights Article

Rebel radio

June 29, 2020
Can a simple message to come home convince insurgents to leave the battlefield?
Research Highlights Podcast

Rethinking racial discrimination

June 24, 2020
Harvard professor Mario Small discusses how sociology can help economics diversify its perspective.