Research Highlights

The AEA profiles research from all of its journals covering the wide range of topics that economists study. The entire archive of research highlights is below. A list of featured charts from AEA journals are also available.

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Archive

The effectiveness of HARP

May 3, 2021

How do homeowners respond when they can suddenly refinance their mortgages at lower rates?

Creating Africa’s own Green Revolution

April 28, 2021

Dean Yang discusses how temporary farming subsidies in Mozambique are giving a massive boost to food production and economic well-being.

Calling in election fraud

April 19, 2021

Did cell phone technology in Afghanistan help reduce ballot stuffing at the polls?

Why the United States has the best research universities

April 14, 2021

Miguel Urquiola discusses the history of higher education in America and why it surpassed Europe.

The long shadow of colonial medicine

April 9, 2021

To what extent did French health campaigns from 70 years ago feed modern day mistrust in Central Africa?

Connecting buyers and sellers in the countryside

April 6, 2021

E-commerce development in rural China may not be as promising as many expected.

Climate change and migration

March 31, 2021

Klaus Desmet discusses how accounting for spatial shifts changes estimates of how rising sea levels will affect the economy.

The Facebook filter bubble

March 26, 2021

Is social media making America more polarized?

The failure of “soft” affirmative action

March 22, 2021

Why didn’t the NFL’s Rooney Rule lead to more minority head coaches being hired?

How much do local leaders matter?

March 17, 2021

Christian Dippel discusses the Forty-Eighters and their role in the US antislavery movement.