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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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Market rushes

August 28, 2020
How well informed are traders during a panic?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

A solution creates a problem

August 26, 2020
An anti-poverty program improved monitoring by going digital and inadvertently reduced access for people it aimed to help.
Research Highlights Article

Boosting the youth vote

August 24, 2020
How do states respond when young voters gain more political leverage?
Research Highlights Podcast

A century of women’s enfranchisement

August 19, 2020
Elizabeth Cascio discusses how generational change has contributed to the expanding political gap between men and women in the US.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Can tax policy change gender norms?

August 12, 2020
The earned income tax credit spurred more women to work and changed social attitudes in the process.
Research Highlights Article

Bound by history

August 10, 2020
Would requiring incumbents to match their previous best vote share improve our democracy?