American Economic Review

Papers
(The H4-Index of American Economic Review is 61. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter1835
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions784
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments286
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies282
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment187
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule165
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation157
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia156
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance150
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium143
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa140
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil140
Front Matter128
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry120
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force120
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital117
When Choices Are Mistakes116
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate109
Institution Building without Commitment108
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility98
The Reversal Interest Rate98
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions95
Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency93
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending91
Experimental Cost of Information91
Comparisons of Signals90
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment89
Local Productivity Spillovers88
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity87
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers85
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China84
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors84
Screening Inattentive Buyers82
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa81
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium80
Front Matter79
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality79
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error77
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation77
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature76
Buying from a Group76
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits71
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?71
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds71
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples71
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit69
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan69
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design69
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field68
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions68
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda67
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States66
Monopsony in the US Labor Market65
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice65
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines65
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market65
Globalization and Pandemics64
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution63
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment63
The Immigrant Next Door62
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment62
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