This website uses cookies.

By clicking the "Accept" button or continuing to browse our site, you agree to first-party and session-only cookies being stored on your device to enhance site navigation and analyze site performance and traffic. For more information on our use of cookies, please see our Privacy Policy.

  1. Home
  2. Research Highlights

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.

Follow AEAjournals: X | Bluesky | Facebook

Subscribe to AEA Research Highlights: Digest Email | Podcast | RSS Feed

Show me

Research Highlights Article

Wholesale collusion?

December 18, 2020
Reforms to African agriculture markets didn’t help farmers or consumers as intended. The reason seems to be with how intermediary traders set prices.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Hidden genius

December 16, 2020
How does a successful research career relate to where someone was born?
Research Highlights Podcast

Gendered laws

December 9, 2020
Penny Goldberg discusses how legal gender discrimination affects women’s economic opportunities around the globe.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Moving to a healthier place

December 2, 2020
Hurricane Katrina forced New Orleanians to uproot and live somewhere else. What effect did that have on their health?
Research Highlights Article

Incentivizing innovation

November 30, 2020
Could the "interim-payment" model solve flaws with research contests?
Research Highlights Podcast

The anatomy of inequality

November 25, 2020
Florian Hoffman discusses how income disparities have grown in the US and Europe over the last 40 years.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Plugging the leaks

November 23, 2020
Do e-governance reforms stop the theft of public funds?