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Research Highlights Podcast

Tech: economists wanted

March 15, 2019
An interview with Susan Athey and Michael Luca about the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Risky business

March 13, 2019
How did an insurance requirement force small drillers out of Texas' oil and gas industry?
Research Highlights Article

Bias on the bench

March 11, 2019
Judicial politics play a role in perpetuating racial and gender disparities in sentencing.
Research Highlights Article

The Poor City Population Boom

March 1, 2019
This video explains why today's fastest growing urban areas are in poorer countries.
Announcement

C. Elton Hinshaw (1936-2019)

February 28, 2019
Elton Hinshaw was a longtime professor of economics at Vanderbilt University and former Secretary-Treasurer of the AEA.