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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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A dose of managed care

January 13, 2021
How much do privately administered insurance plans bring down drug prices for Medicaid enrollees?
Research Highlights Podcast

Social well-being and academic success

January 6, 2021
Northwestern’s Kirabo Jackson discusses how schools can help their students by fostering socioemotional development.
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Antitrust and innovation

January 4, 2021
How did the 1956 consent decree against Bell Labs spur new inventions?
Research Highlights Article

2020 in Research Highlights

December 28, 2020
Economists tackled racial discrimination, border walls, collusion, and more.
Research Highlights Article

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.
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Hidden genius

December 16, 2020
How does a successful research career relate to where someone was born?
Research Highlights Podcast

Gendered laws

December 9, 2020
Penny Goldberg discusses how legal gender discrimination affects women’s economic opportunities around the globe.