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

Reviving distressed communities

September 16, 2020

Tim Bartik of the Upjohn Institute on how economic development policy is shortchanging poor regions.

You don’t have to put on the red-light cameras

September 11, 2020

Does monitoring traffic intersections make them safer?

Kill the machines

September 8, 2020

To what extent can technological disruption lead to civil unrest?

What hurts minorities’ progress in economics?

September 2, 2020

Professor Gary Hoover discusses how to make the economics profession more welcoming to underrepresented groups.

Market rushes

August 28, 2020

How well informed are traders during a panic?

Boosting the youth vote

August 24, 2020

How do states respond when young voters gain more political leverage?

A century of women’s enfranchisement

August 19, 2020

Elizabeth Cascio discusses how generational change has contributed to the expanding political gap between men and women in the US.

Finding the best person for the job

August 14, 2020

Does offering more career advancement attract less motivated workers?

Bound by history

August 10, 2020

Would requiring incumbents to match their previous best vote share improve our democracy?

Wielding charity for political influence

August 5, 2020

Marianne Bertrand and Matilde Bombardini discuss how much of corporate philanthropy is really lobbying.