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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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Coping without benefits

September 30, 2019
What happens to household spending when unemployment insurance dries up?
Research Highlights Article

Pay the women

September 27, 2019
Why do many female entrepreneurs in developing countries have lower returns on capital than men?
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Coming off the sugar high

September 25, 2019
What are the potential effects of a soda tax?
Research Highlights Article

Reshaping financial networks

September 23, 2019
Civil War-era legislation helped usher in a period of top-down banking panics. Are there lessons for today’s economies?
Research Highlights Podcast

The case for paying college athletes

September 18, 2019
The AEA interviews Allen Sanderson and John Siegfried about why they believe the NCAA's current model is broken.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Less talk. More work.

September 16, 2019
What does socializing on the job do to productivity?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

The lessons of 9/11

September 11, 2019
Have counter-terrorism efforts by the US protected its interests?
Research Highlights Article

Newspapers and doing more with less

September 9, 2019
This video looks at how French dailies responded when commercial TV posed competition for ad revenue.
Research Highlights Article

Breaching the Great Firewall

September 4, 2019
What has censorship done to the Chinese public’s demand for politically sensitive news?