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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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Agreeing to disagree

March 27, 2020
Why can’t professional forecasters come to a consensus even with the same information?
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Connecting across disciplines

March 25, 2020
Other fields in the social sciences have been increasingly citing economics research. Has economics become more outward-looking, too?
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The trade-offs of logging off

March 23, 2020
Would quitting Facebook result in a happier and less polarized society?
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Sickness and the city

March 18, 2020
Long after a cholera-ridden neighborhood in London was cured, it stayed relatively poor. Why?
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Will work for insurance

March 16, 2020
Americans put off retirement to keep employer-provided prescription drug benefits.
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Helping moms be happier

March 13, 2020
Providing cognitive behavioral therapy to depressed new mothers yielded benefits seven years later.
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Steering clear of risky mortgages

March 11, 2020
To what extent could financial education help home buyers make wiser decisions?
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Numbing the China shock

March 9, 2020
Is there a link between free trade and deaths of despair?
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Experience counts

March 4, 2020
The AEA interviews Ben Jones about why successful entrepreneurs tend to be older than we think.
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A puzzling development

March 2, 2020
India has grown a lot in the past three decades, but it’s been uneven. Can that continue?