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AEA Research Highlights

American Economic Association

A podcast featuring interviews with economists whose work appears in journals published by the American Economic Association.

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Ep. 17: Gendered laws

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2020/12/09

It’s well documented that women earn less than men for doing the same job. But the pay gap is just one way in which women are economically disadvantaged. In some countries, women cannot work without their husband’s permission. They have restricted access to credit and are effectively penalized for having children. And this discrimination is not just governed by social norms; it is codified in the law. In the American Economic Review: Insights, renowned economist Penny Goldberg and co-authors Marie

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Ep. 16: The anatomy of inequality

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2020/11/25

More and more of the wealth in the richest countries is going to their richest citizens. And there are no signs that it’s stopping. But how inequality has grown—who it’s affecting and why—has changed significantly over the last four decades, according to a paper in the Fall issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Authors Florian Hoffmann, David S. Lee, and Thomas Lemieux say that since 2000 income inequality in the US has shifted more to the top of the income distribution and that income

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21:26

Ep. 15: How economists can help combat COVID-19

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2020/11/11

Epidemiology used to be a quiet discipline whose experts were not much used to being in the public eye. Then COVID-19 happened. Suddenly, epidemiologists everywhere were being called into service to track the virus and formulate a plan to combat its spread. But Boston University epidemiologist Eleanor Murray says there are a lot of questions about the pandemic’s impact that are beyond her field’s expertise. In the Journal of Economic Perspectives, she makes the case that economists have an

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Bonus episode: How Democrats lost the South

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2020/10/30

The GOP has owned the US South, winning a majority of the region’s votes in every presidential election for the past 40 years. But it wasn’t always this way. The so-called “Solid South” used to vote reliably Democratic. So what happened? Most scholars believe it was backlash to Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s. Still, even today, the question is not completely settled. Researchers Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington used Gallup poll data available through Cornell University’s Roper Center

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Ep. 14: Importing polarization

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2020/10/28

The gap between red and blue America has been expanding for decades, and the consequences of this increasing polarization are clear to close oberserves of Washington But why Americans have grown so far apart in the first place is still a complicated, unanswered question. Part of the story appears to be the sudden rise of China as an export powerhouse, according to a paper in the October issue of the American Economic Review. Authors David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, and Kaveh Majlesi say

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Ep. 13: Populism's rise

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2020/10/14

Populism’s rise has sparked fundamental questions for advanced democracies around the world. Perhaps the biggest question is why it’s happening. Some research points to economic explanations. Americans who gravitated to President Trump’s nationalistic appeals and British voters who approved leaving the European Union were frustrated by job losses associated with globalization. And that anxiety made them susceptible to politicians who promised to claw back their economic power. Political scientist

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Ep. 12: Taxing hidden wealth

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2020/09/30

The IRS knows that taxpayers hide a large chunk of their wealth overseas. According to the best estimates, Americans hold more than a trillion dollars in offshore tax havens. But it's not easy to find those secret accounts and make tax dodgers pay their fair share. In the August issue of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Daniel Reck says that an array of enforcement efforts in 2008 provide a starting point. He and his co-authors Niels Johannesen, Patrick Langetieg, Max Risch, and

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Ep. 11: Reviving distressed communities

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2020/09/16

The US spends nearly $50 billion a year on job-creating business incentives. Unfortunately, a lot of this money doesn’t go to the places that need it most. Upjohn Institute senior economist Tim Bartik says that policymakers must do more to invest in distressed regions. In the Journal of Economic Perspectives, he argues that policymakers could get more bang for their buck by targeting needy communities. Even more, economic development officials need to broaden their approach beyond cash grants and

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Ep. 10: What helps and hurts minorities’ progress in...

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2020/09/02

Black, Latinx, and Native American people are badly underrepresented in economics. In 2017, they were 30 percent of the US population, but earned fewer than 10 percent of economics PhDs. The question now facing economists is why minorities are opting for other careers. To find out, Gary Hoover of the University of Oklahoma reached out to minorities still in the profession, as well those who ultimately decided to leave it. He and his co-authors Amanda Bayer and Ebonya Washington published their

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Ep. 9: A century of women’s enfranchisement

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2020/08/19

This week marks the centennial of women’s enfranchisement in the United States and women have never been so politically powerful—or politically divided with men. The “sex gap” in partisanship and voter turnout continues to widen. Once willing to defer the work of politics to men, women now have a 4 percentage point advantage in voter turnout. The partisanship gap has also grown. Women are 12 percentage points more likely to identify with the Democratic Party. Dartmouth professor Elizabeth Cascio

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Ep. 8: Wielding charity for political influence

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2020/08/05

The amount of money in politics seems to grow every year. Spending by outside groups reached a record of half billion dollars in the 2016 elections cycle, and lobbying expenditures regularly exceed $3 billion annually. But economists Marianne Bertrand and Matilde Bombardini argue that a lot of corporate influence is still overlooked. In the July issue of the American Economic Review, they estimate that as much as $1 billion a year of corporate philanthropy is used to sway congressional

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Ep. 7: Building barriers

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2020/07/22

Even before there was President Trump, there was “the wall.” America has spent billions on border enforcement, which includes a barrier between the US and Mexico. And the current administration’s nationalistic promises to put “America first” have given the border wall heightened symbolic importance. But it’s not clear just how effective it is in actually preventing migrants from entering the US. Ben Feigenberg says the wall does, in fact, have a substantial impact on the number of people crossing

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Ep. 6: Autocracies in the information age

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2020/07/08

The world has been adjusting to the information age for the last 50 years now. And so have its autocracies, according to our guest today. Daniel Treisman, political scientist at UCLA, says that illiberal leaders are building modern authoritarian regimes with a new set of tools to keep themselves in power. In the Fall 2019 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Treisman and his coauthor Sergei Guriev described these so-called informational autocrats, which no longer terrorize their citizens

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Bonus episode: The gender gap in economics

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2020/07/01

Swarthmore professor Amanda Bayer has worked much of her career to address diversity in economics. She has published papers about it, served on the AEA’s Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, and co-organized a national summit on the topic with the Federal Reserve. She is also the creator and editor of Diversifying Economic Quality, a widely read online resource that promotes inclusive, innovative, and evidence-based teaching practices in economics. She also helped

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Ep. 5: Rethinking racial discrimination

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2020/06/24

The economics profession is in a moment of racial reckoning. A field still dominated by white men is rethinking long-held notions about racial discrimination and its impact on the profession. That includes the way that the issue is studied. Harvard professor Mario Small says that sociology can help. There is a lot about how institutional discrimination works that traditional economic models miss. In the latest issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, he and his co-author, the late Devah Pager,

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Ep. 4: The persistence of poverty and insecurity

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2020/06/10

Few economists have shed as much light on the long-run impact of institutions as Melissa Dell. Her efforts, which earned her this year’s John Bates Clark Medal, have helped pinpoint some of the root causes of poverty and insecurity around the world. Her research stands out for the novel datasets she’s collected and the innovative ways she’s put them to use. Notably, the Harvard professor has shown how Peru’s history of colonialism shaped the economy it has today. Her work ranges from state-building

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Ep. 3: Scrutinizing for-profit colleges

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2020/05/27

For-profit colleges hope to be profitable again. Years of intense regulatory scrutiny over high student loan default rates and lawsuits over boiler room recruiting tactics resulted in rapid enrollment declines, revenue losses, and a wave of closings. But now, with a sympathetic Education Department and skyrocketing demand for online education amid the Covid-19 pandemic, for-profit schools are preparing for a comeback. Our guest today says that could be a cause for concern. Stephanie Riegg Cellini

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Ep. 2: Supplying a fiscal lifeline

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2020/05/13

There’s little doubt that the US has entered a recession. Stock markets have been continuously rattled since February, and over 20 million people filed for unemployment last month. Fortunately, economists have learned a lot about fighting recessions since the 2008 financial crisis, according to our guest today. Valerie Ramey is a leader in the field of fiscal-policy research. She has spent her career trying to pin down multipliers that measure the impact of government spending and taxing on the

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Ep. 1: "An ambassador of the economics profession"

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2020/04/29

Anyone who has ever taken Econ 101 will likely be familiar with our guest Gregory Mankiw. The Harvard professor’s Principles of Economics is in its ninth edition and is perhaps the most widely used textbook in introductory courses throughout the country. Now, in an essay published in the Journal of Economic Literature, Mankiw reflects on some of the big questions he’s confronted during the three decades since his career as a textbook author began. He says that textbook authors, especially

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Introducing the AEA Research Highlights podcast

AEA Research Highlights ·

2020/04/22

Five years ago, the American Economic Association began posting short, readable summaries of the research published in our journals. We called them Research Highlights, and in that time, we’ve really seen the audience for these grow to include thousands of tenured professors, students, and everyday people who just want to learn more about economics. Now, we’re hoping to keep growing our audience by giving you something to listen to, as well.

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