Research Highlights

AEA Research Highlights feature selected articles published in the AEA journals.

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Different expectations

March 27, 2019
How do gender stereotypes shape our beliefs of how we will perform on certain tasks?
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As farmers go, so goes the nation

March 25, 2019
How did agriculture help the US recover from the Great Depression in the spring of 1933?
Research Highlights Podcast

Tech: economists wanted

March 15, 2019
An interview with Susan Athey and Michael Luca about the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector.
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Risky business

March 13, 2019
How did an insurance requirement force small drillers out of Texas' oil and gas industry?
Research Highlights Article

Bias on the bench

March 11, 2019
Judicial politics play a role in perpetuating racial and gender disparities in sentencing.
Research Highlights Article

The Poor City Population Boom

March 1, 2019
This video explains why today's fastest growing urban areas are in poorer countries.