Research Highlights

The AEA profiles research from all of its journals covering the wide range of topics that economists study. The entire archive of research highlights is below. A list of featured charts from AEA journals are also available.

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Archive

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.

Rural education and the send-down movement

December 14, 2020

A chaotic episode in China’s past paved the way for better schooling in the countryside.

Gendered laws

December 9, 2020

Penny Goldberg discusses how legal gender discrimination affects women’s economic opportunities around the globe.

Elite education and affirmative action

December 4, 2020

Do selective high schools help students with disadvantaged backgrounds get into better colleges?

Incentivizing innovation

November 30, 2020

Could the "interim-payment" model solve flaws with research contests?

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.

Devotion and economic progress

November 20, 2020

How does religious intensity affect development?

The capacity to meet volatile demand

November 16, 2020

Why are there such large differences in productivity between companies in the same industry?

How economists can help combat COVID-19

November 11, 2020

Boston University epidemiologist Eleanor Murray says the tools of economics can help her field better understand the impacts of the disease.

The not-so-hot melting pot

November 6, 2020

How fast did economic disparities between immigrants to America converge in the Age of Mass Migration?