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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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Taking smart chances

May 23, 2018
The AEA interviews David Huffman about how a person’s cognitive ability relates to their taste for risk.
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Moving on up

May 21, 2018
A housing reform in Dallas offers lessons for how voucher design shapes decisions about where to live.
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Creating criminals?

May 18, 2018
Restricting immigrants’ ability to work causes an increase in financially motivated crime.
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The rise of the state

May 16, 2018
The Great Depression led to widespread institutional changes in the US.
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Protection from predators

May 14, 2018
What are the economic consequences when governments don't keep law and order?
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Money Matters

May 7, 2018
To what extent can educational finance reform close the achievement gap?
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Coal is king no more

May 4, 2018
The AEA interviews Harrison Fell about how natural gas and wind power have led to coal's decline.