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

Rereading "The Road to Serfdom"

January 20, 2021

Bruce Caldwell discusses Friedrich Hayek and the history of economic ideas.

Mobile money and migration

January 15, 2021

An experiment in Bangladesh showed that its new urban workers can use mobile banking to help support their families in the countryside.

Social well-being and academic success

January 6, 2021

Northwestern’s Kirabo Jackson discusses how schools can help their students by fostering socioemotional development.

2020 in Research Highlights

December 28, 2020

Economists tackled racial discrimination, border walls, collusion, and more.

The promise of conditional cash transfers

December 23, 2020

Rema Hanna discusses how giving families money affects child development in the long run.

Wholesale collusion?

December 18, 2020

Reforms to African agriculture markets didn’t help farmers or consumers as intended. The reason seems to be with how intermediary traders set prices.

Rural education and the send-down movement

December 14, 2020

A chaotic episode in China’s past paved the way for better schooling in the countryside.

Gendered laws

December 9, 2020

Penny Goldberg discusses how legal gender discrimination affects women’s economic opportunities around the globe.

Elite education and affirmative action

December 4, 2020

Do selective high schools help students with disadvantaged backgrounds get into better colleges?

Incentivizing innovation

November 30, 2020

Could the "interim-payment" model solve flaws with research contests?