Research Highlights Article
American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
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Staying put or moving on?
October 15, 2019
A housing law in San Francisco offers lessons for today’s rent-control debates.
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Tariffs and tearing up trade agreements
October 11, 2019
What would ending NAFTA and Brexit do to car industries around the world?
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Leave no neighborhood behind
October 2, 2019
Funding formulas for charter schools should be tied to the cost of educating students.
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Coping without benefits
September 30, 2019
What happens to household spending when unemployment insurance dries up?
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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?
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Scientific progress one funeral at a time
September 13, 2019
What happens to a research field when it loses its leader?
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Breaching the Great Firewall
September 4, 2019
What has censorship done to the Chinese public’s demand for politically sensitive news?
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Unbiased results
August 19, 2019
Many research fields are plagued with publication bias. A new statistical technique can help correct the problem.
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