American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

AER Research Highlights

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Staying put or moving on?

October 15, 2019
A housing law in San Francisco offers lessons for today’s rent-control debates.
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Leave no neighborhood behind

October 2, 2019
Funding formulas for charter schools should be tied to the cost of educating students.
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Coping without benefits

September 30, 2019
What happens to household spending when unemployment insurance dries up?
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Reshaping financial networks

September 23, 2019
Civil War-era legislation helped usher in a period of top-down banking panics. Are there lessons for today’s economies?
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Breaching the Great Firewall

September 4, 2019
What has censorship done to the Chinese public’s demand for politically sensitive news?
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Unbiased results

August 19, 2019
Many research fields are plagued with publication bias. A new statistical technique can help correct the problem.
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Paying for kidneys

August 14, 2019
What are the moral calculations people make when it comes to compensating organ donors?