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Research Highlights Article

The heroin balloon

November 7, 2018
A push to make prescription opioids more difficult to abuse touched off a surge of heroin deaths.
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A shock to civility

November 5, 2018
When liberalized trade caused foreign competition to increase in Brazil, crime went up, too.
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Fragile innovation

November 2, 2018
This video explains how financial innovation helped cause the 2008 financial crisis.
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Paranormal stock activity

October 31, 2018
An old stock market puzzle is still stumping economists.
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How Democrats lost the South

October 29, 2018
The AEA interviews Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington about why Southern states turned Republican in the 1960s.
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Modern family

October 24, 2018
How do parental leave policies affect relationship stability at home?
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Hurt on the job

October 22, 2018
States are trying to rein in workers' compensation costs. How does that affect earnings for injured employees?