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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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Protecting American jobs?

July 25, 2018
Immigration barriers intended to boost domestic wages and employment may offer little help to US workers.
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Breaking down barriers

July 23, 2018
What are the spillover effects from free trade agreements?
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The Great Divergence

July 18, 2018
This video explains how technology diffusion contributes to the growing productivity gap between rich and poor countries.
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Investing in neighborhoods

July 16, 2018
Where are the biggest economic benefits when governments spend on infrastructure improvements?
Research Highlights Article

Get the lead out

July 13, 2018
How much can we mitigate the damaging effects of lead exposure in kids?
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Equity investments

July 11, 2018
How do gender norms influence household decisions to participate in the stock market?
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Putting a price on prejudice

June 29, 2018
Workplace discrimination is expensive. At what point does it become too costly for the discriminator?
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Trade or technology?

June 27, 2018
Explaining the decline of US manufacturing