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

Our favorite data visualizations from the past year

July 3, 2017

Check out these graphics from the Research Highlight series

A “dark side” to the commodity boom in Africa

June 28, 2017

New evidence on the resource curse

Will work for insurance

June 23, 2017

Would expanding Medicaid make people less willing to hold a job?

What's in a name?

June 19, 2017

Companies named for their founders do better. This video explains why more firms don't bear their owners’ names

Why do mothers earn less?

June 14, 2017

An interview with Erik Plug about the "motherhood penalty" and what it means for working moms

How the Great Fire of 1872 helped Boston grow

June 9, 2017

The upside of an urban disaster

You have the right to an attorney

June 6, 2017

Expanding access to legal counsel would benefit criminal suspects, but what about everybody else?

Staying beneath the death ceiling

May 31, 2017

An interview with Raymond Fisman

Texas tuition cuts provide a preview of what free community college could look like

May 22, 2017

But money isn’t the only impediment to higher achievement

Should I be a Good Samaritan?

May 17, 2017

An interview with Ted Bergstrom about how game theory helps us understand when we would assist a stranded traveler.