Research Highlights

AEA Research Highlights feature selected articles published in the AEA journals.

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Articles — Summaries of AEA articles, based on interviews with the authors.
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Fighting brands and mobile phone plans

January 28, 2022

How do incumbent companies react to a new competitor?

Research Highlights Featured Chart

The income gap in China

January 26, 2022

Is there a correlation between urban–rural income disparity and overall inequality?

Research Highlights Article

Career training

January 24, 2022

What are the long-run impacts of vocational education on labor market outcomes?

Research Highlights Podcast

Inverted outcomes resulting from the Electoral College system

January 19, 2022

Michael Geruso discusses why some US presidential candidates win with fewer votes.

Research Highlights Featured Chart

Fraud and the financial crisis

January 18, 2022

Were conflicts of interest the main driver behind the 2008 US housing bust?

Research Highlights Article

The downside of great expectations

January 14, 2022

How do overly optimistic growth forecasts affect a nation’s economy?

Research Highlights Featured Chart

Making healthy practices habitual

January 3, 2022

An experiment in rural India boosted handwashing through social and financial rewards.

Research Highlights Article

2021 in Research Highlights

December 30, 2021

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