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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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War, trade, and social ties

January 30, 2023
Does armed conflict reduce trade through the erosion of intergroup trust?
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Delegating authority

January 17, 2023
How does the need for coordination affect organization design?
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2022 in Research Highlights

December 27, 2022
Economists addressed the returns to an economics degree, why workers in bigger cities have higher wages, grade inflation, and more.
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2022 in Featured Charts

December 20, 2022
Economists tackled inequality, political turnover, air pollution, and more.
Research Highlights Podcast

How good is popular financial advice?

December 13, 2022
James Choi discusses how advice from popular financial authors differs from the theories and models of academic economists.
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Social media and depression

December 5, 2022
How did the rollout of Facebook affect the mental health of college students?