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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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2017 in Research Highlights

December 27, 2017
Economists tackled gender issues, education, globalization, and more.
Research Highlights Article

Reconsidering the poverty line

December 22, 2017
Is the World Bank underestimating the minimum income needed to survive?
Research Highlights Article

Job flexibility

December 13, 2017
A video about the value employees put on alternative work arrangements.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Breaking down Brexit

December 11, 2017
Leaving the EU will cost the UK.
Research Highlights Article

Back to work

December 8, 2017
The U.S. labor market is not as flexible as once thought.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

A better way to feed the poor

December 6, 2017
A national nonprofit develops a more efficient system to allocate food donations.
Research Highlights Article

Why do people give?

December 4, 2017
An interview with Lise Vesterlund on how economics can help us better understand altruism.