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Research Highlights

AEA Research Highlights feature selected articles published in the AEA journals.

Podcasts — Interviews with AEA authors discussing their work.
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Featured Charts — Illumination of graphs from AEA journal articles.

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Unequal growth in learning

September 26, 2023
Was remote instruction a driver of the widening academic achievement gap between high- and low-poverty school districts during the pandemic?
Research Highlights Podcast

Learning the language

September 5, 2023
Blake Heller discusses the impact of adult English language training programs on immigrant earnings and civic engagement.
Research Highlights Article

Concentrated spending

August 22, 2023
Why are US households spending more money on fewer products and showing increasing divergence from each other in their selections?
Research Highlights Featured Chart

Social media and inflammatory rhetoric

August 1, 2023
Does animosity toward minorities on Twitter increase antiminority sentiment and lead to hate crimes?
Research Highlights Article

Testing the “superstar hypothesis”

July 24, 2023
The historic rollout of television in the United States provides a natural experiment in scale-related technological change.