AEA Research Highlights
A podcast featuring interviews with economists whose work appears in journals published by the American Economic Association.
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Ep. 104: Violence against women (opens the original)
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Intimate partner violence, or IPV, refers to physical, sexual, or emotional abuse and controlling behavior by a current or former partner. Women bear a disproportionate share of the burden of IPV worldwide—roughly one in three women experience IPV in their lifetimes—and low- and middle-income countries have a greater occurrence of IPV, with larger costs as a percentage of GDP. In a paper in the Journal of Economic Literature , authors Manisha Shah and Lydia Barski surveyed the economic research
Ep. 103: When managers try to keep their best workers from moving into other departments (opens the original)
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Most firms rely on managers to spot talented workers and to encourage them to move into bigger roles within the company. But managers are judged on how their own teams perform, giving them an incentive to hold on to their best people. In a paper in the American Economic Review , economist Ingrid Haegele provides the first empirical evidence that talent hoarding is prevalent and costly. Drawing on personnel records and surveys from a large European manufacturer with more than 200,000 employees, s
Ep. 102: The economics of sanctioning a petrostate (opens the original)
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In response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the G7 imposed a price cap of $60 per barrel on all Russian oil carried by tankers owned, insured, or serviced by Western companies. Many analysts expected the policy to backfire, with some warning that oil could reach $380 if Russia retaliated by cutting production. In a paper in the American Economic Review , authors Simon Johnson , Lukasz Rachel , and Catherine Wolfram argue that tightly enforced caps can actually raise oil output and push wor
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