American Economic Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Economic Review is 10. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter2332
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments358
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance336
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment247
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation205
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies188
Monotonicity among Judges: Evidence from Judicial Panels and Consequences for Judge IV Designs184
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions181
Front Matter175
Institution Building without Commitment169
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa157
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry153
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions149
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility146
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil144
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate144
Front Matter134
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium127
Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections124
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital123
When Choices Are Mistakes122
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility119
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force111
The Reversal Interest Rate110
Experimental Cost of Information108
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China105
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers105
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity105
Screening Inattentive Buyers103
Comparisons of Signals102
Managers and Public Hospital Performance100
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium99
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality99
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment99
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa98
Local Productivity Spillovers92
Front Matter91
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending91
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature87
Buying from a Group87
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error83
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits83
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit82
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field79
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design78
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States78
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds78
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda78
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children78
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media76
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples73
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation72
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions72
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market71
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan71
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice70
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines69
Monopsony in the US Labor Market69
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?69
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy67
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment60
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors60
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting59
Measuring Upward Mobility59
Globalization and Pandemics59
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment59
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence58
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition58
The Immigrant Next Door57
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem57
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution55
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment55
Report of Independent Auditor54
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle54
Front Matter54
Front Matter54
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times53
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications51
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers51
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry51
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade50
Task-Based Discrimination50
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households49
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States48
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design48
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D47
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing47
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs47
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills46
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions45
Front Matter45
Front Matter45
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility45
Front Matter45
Politics at Work44
The Value of Software44
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice43
A Discrimination Report Card43
Posterior Separable Cost of Information43
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195343
Front Matter42
Front Matter42
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market42
Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium40
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice40
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending40
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization40
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202239
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?39
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure38
Selling Subscriptions37
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?37
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment36
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages35
On Binscatter34
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity34
Monetary Cooperation during Global Inflation Surges34
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy33
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction33
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions33
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias33
A Special Introduction33
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets32
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans32
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities31
Bargaining with Mechanisms31
Place-Based Redistribution31
Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility31
Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality30
Front Matter30
The Voice of Monetary Policy30
Loans for the “Little Fellow”: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression30
Front Matter30
Front Matter30
Front Matter30
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being29
Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share29
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?29
How Do National Firms Respond to Local Cost Shocks?29
Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses, and Adverse Selection29
Crowding in School Choice28
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”28
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population28
Micro versus Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort28
Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock27
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea27
Front Matter27
Do Credit Conditions Move House Prices?27
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China27
Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity27
The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German (Hyper)Inflation26
Test-Optional Admissions25
RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital25
The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation25
Robust Monopoly Regulation25
Presidential Address: Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years24
Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness24
Start-Up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition24
Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development24
Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India24
Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing23
The Cost of Information: The Case of Constant Marginal Costs23
State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy: The Refinancing Channel23
Supply Network Formation and Fragility23
Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets23
When Money Dies: The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations22
Effective Demand Failures and the Limits of Monetary Stabilization Policy22
Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth22
Regulation Design in Insurance Markets22
Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change: A Nearest-Neighbor Design22
Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey22
Valuing Long-Term Property Rights with Anticipated Political Regime Shifts22
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects21
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA21
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement21
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR21
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health21
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies21
Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism21
Changing Income Risk across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter20
The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation20
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France20
Nobel Lecture: Paths to the Periphery20
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach20
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment19
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis19
The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household19
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations19
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs19
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For19
The Human Side of Structural Transformation18
Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences18
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation18
Personalized Pricing and Competition18
Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals18
Front Matter18
Populist Leaders and the Economy18
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration18
Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products17
Front Matter17
Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–191117
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects17
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness17
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care17
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality17
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment17
First-Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks17
Targeting Impact versus Deprivation17
Front Matter16
Front Matter16
Front Matter16
Monetary Policy and Rational Asset Price Bubbles: Comment16
Optimal Taxation and Market Power16
Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment15
Presidential Address: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis15
Technology Gaps, Trade, and Income15
Experimentation in Networks15
Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals15
Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride14
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss14
When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains14
Optimal Monetary Policy According to HANK14
A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change14
An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System14
Consistent Evidence on Duration Dependence of Price Changes13
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission13
Trade with Correlation13
Did US Politicians Expect the China Shock?13
The Decline of Too Big to Fail12
Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo12
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence12
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV12
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities12
Front Matter12
Monotone Function Intervals: Theory and Applications12
Curbing Leakage in Public Programs: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy12
Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban12
Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity12
Increasing Degree Attainment among Low-Income Students: The Role of Intensive Advising and College Quality11
Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador11
The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments11
A/B Contracts11
Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India11
Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda11
100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration11
Dynamic Outside Options and Optimal Negotiation Strategies11
Counterfactuals with Latent Information11
Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach11
The Ends of 27 Big Depressions10
Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature10
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