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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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State-unbuilding

November 14, 2018
The Taliban recognized the importance of elections and made them a primary target.
Research Highlights Article

Shadow business

November 12, 2018
How many cartels exist and how important is competition policy to reining them in?
Research Highlights Article

The heroin balloon

November 7, 2018
A push to make prescription opioids more difficult to abuse touched off a surge of heroin deaths.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

A shock to civility

November 5, 2018
When liberalized trade caused foreign competition to increase in Brazil, crime went up, too.
Research Highlights Article

Fragile innovation

November 2, 2018
This video explains how financial innovation helped cause the 2008 financial crisis.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Paranormal stock activity

October 31, 2018
An old stock market puzzle is still stumping economists.
Research Highlights Podcast

How Democrats lost the South

October 29, 2018
The AEA interviews Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington about why Southern states turned Republican in the 1960s.
Research Highlights Article

Modern family

October 24, 2018
How do parental leave policies affect relationship stability at home?
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Hurt on the job

October 22, 2018
States are trying to rein in workers' compensation costs. How does that affect earnings for injured employees?
Research Highlights Article

Boosting mobile savings

October 19, 2018
Can automatic enrollments encourage saving in developing countries?