Targeting poverty

December 10, 2018

The AEA interviews Rema Hanna and Benjamin Olken about whether universal basic income programs are the best way to provide aid in the developing world.

Rising regulations, ebbing emissions

December 5, 2018

What’s behind the decline in US manufacturing pollution?

Fitting the punishment to the crime

November 30, 2018

How does the severity of a penalty influence jury decisions to convict?

Testing the infant-industry argument

November 26, 2018

Can trade protection jump-start an industry?

Building trust with buyers

November 21, 2018

How much do offers of "satisfaction guaranteed" improve efficiency in the marketplace?

Making economics transparent and reproducible

November 16, 2018

The AEA interviews Ted Miguel about the credibility of economics.

Shadow business

November 12, 2018

How many cartels exist and how important is competition policy to reining them in?

The heroin balloon

November 7, 2018

A push to make prescription opioids more difficult to abuse touched off a surge of heroin deaths.

Fragile innovation

November 2, 2018

This video explains how financial innovation helped cause the 2008 financial crisis.

How Democrats lost the South

October 29, 2018

The AEA interviews Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington about why Southern states turned Republican in the 1960s.