Research Highlights

AEA Research Highlights feature selected articles published in the AEA journals.

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Research Highlights Podcast

Creating Africa’s own Green Revolution

April 28, 2021
Dean Yang discusses how temporary farming subsidies in Mozambique are giving a massive boost to food production and economic well-being.
Research Highlights Article

Calling in election fraud

April 19, 2021
Did cell phone technology in Afghanistan help reduce ballot stuffing at the polls?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

The risk of research

April 12, 2021
How do companies weigh the tradeoffs with R&D investment?
Research Highlights Article

The long shadow of colonial medicine

April 9, 2021
To what extent did French health campaigns from 70 years ago feed modern day mistrust in Central Africa?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Free movement and labor markets

April 7, 2021
A policy reform in Switzerland helped estimate the effect of foreign workers on native employment and wages.
Research Highlights Podcast

Climate change and migration

March 31, 2021
Klaus Desmet discusses how accounting for spatial shifts changes estimates of how rising sea levels will affect the economy.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Deadly deadlines

March 29, 2021
“Desk-clearing” by drug agencies has consequences for public safety.