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

Women's work?

March 15, 2017

Why do female employees take on thankless tasks that men don’t want to do?

I don't want to know

March 10, 2017

Why do we avoid certain information and what are the consequences for our society?

The quiet revolution in debt collection

March 6, 2017

How big data helped streamline collections – and unleashed billions in new credit card debt

When bankers and borrowers come from the same culture, does everybody win?

March 1, 2017

Sharing a similar culture can lead to more profitable lending relationships

Are transit strikes a public health problem?

February 22, 2017

Video from the AEA about how public transit strikes can lead to serious health problems for a community

Would price transparency lower health care costs?

February 17, 2017

Patients could save a lot of money if they shopped around for providers who charge less.

Tending to relationships can pay off for businesses too

February 13, 2017

Rose markets in Kenya demonstrate the tangible economic value of trust

You owe me

February 9, 2017

Does it matter if doctors or lawmakers accept small gifts from people trying to influence them?

Conspiracies against the public

February 6, 2017

The textbook description of cartels can’t explain what real-world cartels do

A truce in the patent wars?

February 1, 2017

The economics of mutually assured patent destruction