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Research Highlights

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

Podcasts — Interviews with AEA authors discussing their work.
Articles — Summaries of AEA articles, based on interviews with the authors.
Featured Charts — Illumination of graphs from AEA journal articles.

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The long shadow of colonial medicine

April 9, 2021
To what extent did French health campaigns from 70 years ago feed modern day mistrust in Central Africa?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Free movement and labor markets

April 7, 2021
A policy reform in Switzerland helped estimate the effect of foreign workers on native employment and wages.
Research Highlights Podcast

Climate change and migration

March 31, 2021
Klaus Desmet discusses how accounting for spatial shifts changes estimates of how rising sea levels will affect the economy.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Deadly deadlines

March 29, 2021
“Desk-clearing” by drug agencies has consequences for public safety.
Research Highlights Podcast

How much do local leaders matter?

March 17, 2021
Christian Dippel discusses the Forty-Eighters and their role in the US antislavery movement.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Spending now or saving for later

March 15, 2021
How do lump-sum severance payments affect consumption for laid-off workers?