OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	409
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance	366
Evaluating the Impact of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio	295
Monotonicity among Judges: Evidence from Judicial Panels and Consequences for Judge IV Designs	225
Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry	203
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies	194
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment	189
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments	174
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation	172
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions	169
Front Matter	168
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium	155
Front Matter	151
Institution Building without Commitment	148
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital	147
Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections	141
The Reversal Interest Rate	138
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry	133
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa	133
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility	130
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil	129
Market Power and Capital Constraints	129
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate	119
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility	118
Screening Inattentive Buyers	115

Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force	115
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity	115
When Choices Are Mistakes	115
A Long and a Short Leg Make for a Wobbly Equilibrium	114
Managers and Public Hospital Performance	104
Comparisons of Signals	99
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China	97
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium	95
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers	94
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa	92
Local Productivity Spillovers	89
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment	89
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality	86
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending	85
Experimental Cost of Information	85
Front Matter	84
Buying from a Group	82
Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall, and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics	81
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits	78
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan	75
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error	73
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation	72
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda	67
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature	66
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States	66
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples	65
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit	65
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice	64
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field	64
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds	63
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media	60
When Do Nudges Increase Welfare?	60
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design	59
Monopsony in the US Labor Market	58
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children	58
Financial Frictions: Micro versus Macro Volatility	57
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence	55
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment	55
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy	54
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors	54
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting	54
Measuring Upward Mobility	53
The Immigrant Next Door	53
Globalization and Pandemics	53
Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies	50
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution	50
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment	50
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem	49
Front Matter	49
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment	49

Report of Independent Auditor	48
Front Matter	48
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle	46
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers	46
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills	45
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs	45
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing	45
Task-Based Discrimination	45
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications	45
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design	44
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households	44
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry	42
Front Matter	40
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D	40
Front Matter	40
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times	40
Front Matter	40
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility	40
The Value of Software	39
Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan	39
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions	38
Negative Control Falsification Tests for Instrumental Variable Designs	38
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 1953	37
Politics at Work	37
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice	36
Posterior Separable Cost of Information	36
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market	36
Front Matter	35
On Binscatter	35
A Discrimination Report Card	35
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure	35
Front Matter	35
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity	35
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment	34
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?	34
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization	34
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending	34
Selling Subscriptions	34
Similarity of Information and Collective Action	34
Monetary Cooperation during Global Inflation Surges	33
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–2022	33
Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium	33
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice	32
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction	32
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?	32
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages	32
A Special Introduction	31
Bargaining with Mechanisms	31
Place-Based Redistribution	30
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets	30
Equal Pay for Similar Work	29
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy	29
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities	29
Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility	28
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias	28
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans	28
The Voice of Monetary Policy	28
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions	28
Front Matter	27
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being	27
Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity	27
Do Credit Conditions Move House Prices?	27
Front Matter	27
Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses, and Adverse Selection	27
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China	27
Front Matter	27
Crowding in School Choice	27
Micro versus Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort	27
Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality	26
Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share	26
Loans for the “Little Fellow”: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression	26
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?	26
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea	26
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population	25
How Do National Firms Respond to Local Cost Shocks?	25
Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development	24
Robust Monopoly Regulation	24
Front Matter	24
The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German (Hyper)Inflation	24
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”	24

Start-Up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition	24
The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation	23
Making Bricks from Straw: Resources and Productivity in Health Care	23
Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness	22
Presidential Address: Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years	22
Test-Optional Admissions	22
Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth	22
Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock	22
Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing	22
Supply Network Formation and Fragility	21
The Cost of Information: The Case of Constant Marginal Costs	21
Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets	21
Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India	21
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap	21
Regulation Design in Insurance Markets	20
RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital	20
When Money Dies: The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations	20
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects	20
Valuing Long-Term Property Rights with Anticipated Political Regime Shifts	20
Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change: A Nearest-Neighbor Design	20
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR	19
Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey	19
Effective Demand Failures and the Limits of Monetary Stabilization Policy	19
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA	19
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health	19
The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household	19
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement	19
Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals	18
The Human Side of Structural Transformation	18
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment	18
Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences	18
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs	18
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France	18
Changing Income Risk across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter	18
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies	18
Nobel Lecture: Paths to the Periphery	18
Personalized Pricing and Competition	17
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis	17
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach	17
Populist Leaders and the Economy	17
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For	17
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care	16
Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products	16
Front Matter	16
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations	16
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness	16
Front Matter	16
Front Matter	16
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment	15
Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–1911	15
Optimal Taxation and Market Power	15
First-Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks	15
Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development	15
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects	15
Experimentation in Networks	14
Front Matter	14
Targeting Impact versus Deprivation	14
Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment	14
Work from Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse	14
Front Matter	14
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality	14
Presidential Address: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis	13
A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change	13
Optimal Monetary Policy According to HANK	13
When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains	13
Monetary Policy and Rational Asset Price Bubbles: Comment	13
Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals	13
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss	13
Technology Gaps, Trade, and Income	13
Did US Politicians Expect the China Shock?	12
Curbing Leakage in Public Programs: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy	12
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence	12
Immigration, Innovation, and Growth	12
The Decline of Too Big to Fail	12
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission	12
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities	12
Consistent Evidence on Duration Dependence of Price Changes	12
Trade with Correlation	12
Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity	12
Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban	12
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV	11
Games on Multiplex Networks	11
100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration	11
Monotone Function Intervals: Theory and Applications	11
Front Matter	11
Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador	11
Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India	11
What You Don’t Know May Be Good for You	11
Increasing Degree Attainment among Low-Income Students: The Role of Intensive Advising and College Quality	11
Dynamic Outside Options and Optimal Negotiation Strategies	11
Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach	11
Separating Ownership and Information	10
The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap	10
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment	10
The Comparative Statics of Sorting	10