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

Reassessing public health campaigns

April 8, 2019

Are we overstating the role that anti-TB initiatives played in driving down death rates in the 20th century?

Connecting Africa to the digital fastlane

April 3, 2019

How did high-speed, high-capacity Internet affect African businesses and workers?

The indirect effects of good teaching

March 29, 2019

An educator's value is greater than the impact they have on their own students.

As farmers go, so goes the nation

March 25, 2019

How did agriculture help the US recover from the Great Depression in the spring of 1933?

Inoculating adolescents, protecting the public

March 20, 2019

The AEA interviews Emily Lawler about vaccination mandates and their spillover effects.

Tech: economists wanted

March 15, 2019

An interview with Susan Athey and Michael Luca about the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector.

Bias on the bench

March 11, 2019

Judicial politics play a role in perpetuating racial and gender disparities in sentencing.

More competing. More saving.

March 6, 2019

How do national retailers set prices? And who does it help?

The Poor City Population Boom

March 1, 2019

This video explains why today's fastest growing urban areas are in poorer countries.

Does trade policy really matter?

February 25, 2019

Britain’s protectionism in the 1930s may offer insights for policymakers today.