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

Kicking the can down the road

December 6, 2019
The AEA interviews Pierre Yared about why government debt keeps rising and how we can get it under control.

Embracing our differences

December 2, 2019
What effect does campus racial diversity have on the way whites act toward minority students?

Cutting off support

November 22, 2019
The AEA interviews Thiemo Fetzer about how austerity policies after the financial crisis led to Brexit.

Sticky wages and recessions

November 11, 2019
Unemployment in Indian villages was exacerbated when laborers resisted pay cuts during bad times.