American Economic Review

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

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Comparing 911 responses

May 2, 2022
CarlyWill Sloan discusses race and police use of force in two American cities.
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Local politics

April 25, 2022
How does geographic context influence voter behavior?
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Digging into an argument

April 7, 2022
Do people become more convinced of their own positions in the midst of a debate?
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Money problems

March 21, 2022
Do monetary themed questions on standardized tests have a negative impact on students of low socioeconomic status?
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Moving on up?

March 2, 2022
Ellora Derenoncourt discusses how economic prospects declined for the generations of African Americans that followed the Great Migration.