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AEA Research Highlights — 100 episodes

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Ep. 104: Violence against women

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Ep. 103: When managers try to keep their best workers from moving into other departments

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Ep. 102: The economics of sanctioning a petrostate

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Ep. 101: Views on the dollar shortage controversy

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Ep. 100: Environmental market design

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Ep. 99: The wrong side of the tracks

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Ep. 98: Delivering clean water

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Ep. 97: A short history of Asian immigration

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Ep. 96: W. E. B. Du Bois and the history of marginalism

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Ep. 95: Diversifying college applications

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Ep. 94: Targeted supply-side enforcement in the controlled substance market

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Ep. 93: Technological spillovers

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Ep. 92: Housing supply skepticism

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Ep. 91: Reviewing residential segregation

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Ep. 90: Understanding the US net foreign asset position

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Ep. 89: Measuring US income inequality

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Ep. 88: Understanding international approaches to drug pricing

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Ep. 87: The cultural roots of rebellion

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Ep. 86: Reexamining air quality regulations

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Ep. 85: America's public safety net

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Ep. 84: Media salience and polarization

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Ep. 83: The returns to industrial policy

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Ep. 82: Service quality in the financial advisory industry

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Ep. 81: Assessing the Effects of the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act

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Ep. 80: Agricultural productivity and chronic disease

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Ep. 79: Social organization and redistribution

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Ep. 78: Broader economic impacts of the Paycheck Protection Program

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Ep. 77: The political power of historical narratives

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Ep. 76: The political consequences of NAFTA

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Ep. 75: Moral hazard and migration

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Ep. 74: The pace of economics publishing

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Ep. 73: Improving vaccine messaging

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Ep. 72: A textbook bank run

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Ep. 71: The roots of US innovation clusters

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Ep. 70: Counselors matter

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Ep. 69: Testing two theories of the origin of government

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Ep. 68: Ending school segregation for Mexican Americans

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Ep. 67: Learning the language

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Ep. 66: Transitional housing and recidivism

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Ep. 65: Economic questions raised by Alzheimer's disease

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Ep. 64: Reconceptualizing the path to universal health insurance

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Ep. 63: Gender bias in bank lending

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Ep. 62: The importance of local activism

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Ep. 61: Market design and live events

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Ep. 60: Graduate school and mental health

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Ep. 59: Mental health therapy in the developing world

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Ep. 58: How good is popular financial advice?

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Ep. 57: The costs of cultural traditions

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Ep. 56: Fundraising Appeals and the Lift/Shift Question

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Ep. 55: School bullying, cyberbullying, and remote learning

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Ep. 54: Protecting vulnerable kids

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Ep. 53: Grade inflation and graduation

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Ep. 52: Just what the doctor ordered?

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Ep. 51: The returns to an economics degree

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Ep. 50: Comparing 911 responses

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Ep. 49: The great reset?

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Ep. 48: Reframing development in Africa

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Ep. 47: Moving on up?

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Ep. 46: Money well spent

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Ep. 45: Immigration politics

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Ep. 44: Inverted outcomes resulting from the Electoral College system

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Inoculating adolescents, protecting the public

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Ep. 43: The long-run benefits of public preschool

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Ep. 42: Reimagining public safety research

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Ep. 41: Divergences in life expectancy across US states

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Ep. 40: The recovery of Southern wealth after the Civil War

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Ep. 39: Deterring crime with DNA databases

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Ep. 38: Growth by proximity

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Ep. 37: Going from gasoline to electric

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Ep. 36: Demagoguery on the airwaves

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Ep. 35: Work and childcare during the pandemic

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Ep. 34: The politics of tax evasion

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Ep. 33: Military handoffs

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Bonus: The case for paying college athletes

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Ep. 32: How policy shapes culture

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Ep. 31: More than a few bad apples

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Ep. 30: LGBTQ economics

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Ep. 29: Making economic tools more reliable

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Ep. 28: The Pros and Cons of Collaboration

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Ep. 27: American capitalism and incarceration

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Ep. 26: Creating Africa's own Green Revolution

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Ep. 25: Why the United States has the best research universities

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Ep. 24: Climate change and migration

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Ep. 23: How much do local leaders matter?

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Ep. 22: Supreme polarization

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Bonus: Tech: economists wanted

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Ep. 21: The consquences of school choice.

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Ep. 20: Rereading The Road to Serfdom

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Ep. 19: Social well-being and academic success

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Ep. 18: The promise of conditional cash transfers

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Ep. 17: Gendered laws

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Ep. 16: The anatomy of inequality

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

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Bonus episode: How Democrats lost the South

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Ep. 14: Importing polarization

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Ep. 13: Populism's rise

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Ep. 12: Taxing hidden wealth

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Ep. 11: Reviving distressed communities

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Ep. 10: What helps and hurts minorities' progress in an economics career?

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Ep. 9: A century of women's enfranchisement