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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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Encouraging innovation

January 16, 2019
What effect do patents have on the potential for a technology to be used in future product development?
Research Highlights Article

Boys' club

January 14, 2019
An elite education can propel someone into a top corporate job...if they are a wealthy man.
Research Highlights Article

2018 in Research Highlights

December 26, 2018
Economists tackled gender issues, education, globalization, and more.
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Party favors

December 12, 2018
Do competitive elections curb party favoritism?
Research Highlights Article

Targeting poverty

December 10, 2018
The AEA interviews Rema Hanna and Benjamin Olken about whether universal basic income programs are the best way to provide aid in the developing world.