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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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Expanding access to elections

January 17, 2020
Early voting laws can have significant effects on participation and the partisan composition of government.
Research Highlights Article

Tuition troubles

January 13, 2020
Texas may show how to keep colleges open to poor students, while still providing a top-notch education.
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Carrying the scars of conflict

January 8, 2020
How does being exposed to violence as a child affect the behavior of asylum seekers in their new host country?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Occupational hazard

January 6, 2020
Who wins and who loses from free trade?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Judging on gender

December 30, 2019
Student opinions of an instructor evolve differently depending on whether they're being taught by a man or woman.
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2019 in Research Highlights

December 27, 2019
Economists tackled populism, minimum wages, censorship, and more.
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You can’t buy honesty

December 23, 2019
Boosting public sector wages might attract candidates more prone to corruption.
Research Highlights Article

The unintended effects of incentives

December 20, 2019
An experiment to get kids eating healthy shows how theories can miss key nuances in the real world.
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Putting forth their best effort?

December 18, 2019
US students are falling behind their peers in other countries on academic assessments. How much of the gap could be explained by lackluster effort?
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The forces that unite and divide us

December 16, 2019
A more nuanced understanding of diversity can help explain why some nations are better at fostering a common identity.