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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Staying put or moving on?

October 15, 2019
A housing law in San Francisco offers lessons for today’s rent-control debates.
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The downside of universal child care

October 9, 2019
Plenty of research finds positive effects of early childhood education. But can it ever have negative consequences?
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Bargaining the future

October 7, 2019
Unions provide protections for teachers, but how do they affect students over the long run?
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Leave no neighborhood behind

October 2, 2019
Funding formulas for charter schools should be tied to the cost of educating students.
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Coping without benefits

September 30, 2019
What happens to household spending when unemployment insurance dries up?
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Pay the women

September 27, 2019
Why do many female entrepreneurs in developing countries have lower returns on capital than men?
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Coming off the sugar high

September 25, 2019
What are the potential effects of a soda tax?
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Reshaping financial networks

September 23, 2019
Civil War-era legislation helped usher in a period of top-down banking panics. Are there lessons for today’s economies?
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The case for paying college athletes

September 18, 2019
The AEA interviews Allen Sanderson and John Siegfried about why they believe the NCAA's current model is broken.