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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.
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Mainstreaming the extreme

November 18, 2020
How quickly can social norms erode after a surprising election?
Research Highlights Podcast

How economists can help combat COVID-19

November 11, 2020
Boston University epidemiologist Eleanor Murray says the tools of economics can help her field better understand the impacts of the disease.
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The spoils system in Brazil

November 9, 2020
How often do elected officials use hiring decisions as a patronage tool?
Research Highlights Article

The not-so-hot melting pot

November 6, 2020
How fast did economic disparities between immigrants to America converge in the Age of Mass Migration?
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Assessing the quality of start-ups

November 4, 2020
Economists are going beyond standard ways of judging the health of entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Research Highlights Podcast

Importing polarization

October 28, 2020
Professor Gordon Hanson discusses how competition from China has pushed some communities to the edges of the political spectrum.
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Deadly incentives

October 26, 2020
In Colombia, stronger incentives for the military to kill rebels backfired.