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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

Reviving distressed communities

September 16, 2020
Tim Bartik of the Upjohn Institute on how economic development policy is shortchanging poor regions.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Risk equals reward

September 9, 2020
Wealth inequality is growing, in part, because rich people can be riskier with their money.
Research Highlights Article

Kill the machines

September 8, 2020
To what extent can technological disruption lead to civil unrest?
Research Highlights Article

Market rushes

August 28, 2020
How well informed are traders during a panic?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

A solution creates a problem

August 26, 2020
An anti-poverty program improved monitoring by going digital and inadvertently reduced access for people it aimed to help.
Research Highlights Article

Boosting the youth vote

August 24, 2020
How do states respond when young voters gain more political leverage?