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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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Research Highlights Podcast

How much do local leaders matter?

March 17, 2021
Christian Dippel discusses the Forty-Eighters and their role in the US antislavery movement.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Spending now or saving for later

March 15, 2021
How do lump-sum severance payments affect consumption for laid-off workers?
Research Highlights Article

Bringing financial markets together

March 12, 2021
Securities are typically traded separately from one another. Would it be better to combine those transactions?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Estimating Frisch elasticity

March 10, 2021
A temporary tax holiday in Switzerland offers insights into how workers adjust to income changes.
Research Highlights Podcast

Supreme polarization

March 3, 2021
University of Chicago law professor Daniel Hemel discusses whether the nation’s highest court is facing a legitimacy crisis and, if so, what to do about it.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

The globalization of American universities

March 1, 2021
Foreign students are a growing presence on college campuses. Whether they stay in the United States after graduation largely depends on job opportunities back home.