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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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Immigrants and upward mobility

February 1, 2021
Children of foreign-born parents climb the income ladder faster than kids of US-born parents, especially among the poorest families.
Research Highlights Article

Mobilizing the masses to murder

January 29, 2021
How did political elites in Rwanda get civilians to participate in genocide?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Competition or creation?

January 27, 2021
Do immigrants hurt the job prospects of native-born workers?
Research Highlights Article

Danger lurks below

January 25, 2021
How much do leaky underground petroleum tanks harm our health and what should policymakers do about it?
Research Highlights Article

Mobile money and migration

January 15, 2021
An experiment in Bangladesh showed that its new urban workers can use mobile banking to help support their families in the countryside.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

A dose of managed care

January 13, 2021
How much do privately administered insurance plans bring down drug prices for Medicaid enrollees?
Research Highlights Podcast

Social well-being and academic success

January 6, 2021
Northwestern’s Kirabo Jackson discusses how schools can help their students by fostering socioemotional development.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Antitrust and innovation

January 4, 2021
How did the 1956 consent decree against Bell Labs spur new inventions?