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Research Highlights

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

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Articles — Summaries of AEA articles, based on interviews with the authors.
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Refusing the power to choose

November 22, 2017
Why are consumers slow to change energy providers even when they have a less expensive option?
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The power of Papal persuasion

November 20, 2017
How much did Pope John Paul II influence the beliefs and actions of Catholics?
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Use it or lose it

November 13, 2017
Expiring budgets lead to wasteful year-end spending.
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Animal sacrifice

November 8, 2017
China's collectivization movement in the 1950s is a stark example of the power of incentives.
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A new crisis each time

October 30, 2017
Financial crises are bad, but they don’t have to be devastating.
Research Highlights Article

Better Bureaucracy

October 27, 2017
A popular anti-poverty program is changing rural China.