American Economic Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Economic Review is 11. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter1679
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance705
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments271
Security Transitions254
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule236
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment179
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation162
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia161
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies154
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions150
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium145
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil145
Institution Building without Commitment142
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa133
Front Matter127
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry126
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital121
When Choices Are Mistakes117
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions117
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate109
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility109
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force106
The Reversal Interest Rate103
Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency101
Experimental Cost of Information100
Local Productivity Spillovers92
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment90
Comparisons of Signals89
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity86
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa84
Digital Dystopia81
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors81
Screening Inattentive Buyers81
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China80
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers78
Front Matter77
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality77
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits77
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature76
Buying from a Group76
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples76
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?74
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field73
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States72
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda70
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds70
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan70
Monopsony in the US Labor Market70
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice70
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design67
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions65
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error65
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit65
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines64
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation64
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market64
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting62
Measuring Upward Mobility62
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution61
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy61
Globalization and Pandemics60
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment59
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors59
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence59
The Immigrant Next Door58
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem58
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment58
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition58
Front Matter57
Front Matter56
Report of Independent Auditor55
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle54
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D54
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design53
Task-Based Discrimination52
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills52
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade51
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times51
Front Matter50
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs50
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing50
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States50
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households50
Front Matter49
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility49
Front Matter48
Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin46
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195346
Posterior Separable Cost of Information46
Front Matter46
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice45
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables45
Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools45
A Discrimination Report Card44
Front Matter43
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market43
How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Booking Systems43
Delegation in Veto Bargaining42
Front Matter42
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending42
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization41
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity41
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War41
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202240
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice40
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?39
Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market38
Selling Subscriptions38
On Binscatter37
On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms36
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?36
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure36
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
A Special Introduction35
Bargaining with Mechanisms35
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities34
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy34
Adverse and Advantageous Selection in the Laboratory34
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans34
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction34
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions32
The Voice of Monetary Policy32
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias32
Front Matter31
Loans for the “Little Fellow”: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression31
Front Matter31
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets31
Front Matter31
From Mad Men to Maths Men: Concentration and Buyer Power in Online Advertising31
Crowding in School Choice31
The Selection of Talent: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia30
How Do National Firms Respond to Local Cost Shocks?29
Front Matter29
Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity28
Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality28
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea28
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?28
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China27
RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital27
Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses, and Adverse Selection27
Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share27
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population27
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being27
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”27
Front Matter26
The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation26
Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India26
Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth25
Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness25
Presidential Address: Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years25
Start-Up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition25
The Cost of Information: The Case of Constant Marginal Costs25
Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock25
Robust Monopoly Regulation25
State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy: The Refinancing Channel24
Supply Network Formation and Fragility24
Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing24
Regulation Design in Insurance Markets24
Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets24
Projection of Private Values in Auctions24
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects23
When Money Dies: The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations23
Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey23
Valuing Long-Term Property Rights with Anticipated Political Regime Shifts23
Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism23
Effective Demand Failures and the Limits of Monetary Stabilization Policy23
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health22
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies22
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement22
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR22
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA22
The Human Side of Structural Transformation21
The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation21
The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household21
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis20
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For20
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations20
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs20
Nobel Lecture: Paths to the Periphery20
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment20
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration19
Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration19
Front Matter19
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care19
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France19
Populist Leaders and the Economy19
Front Matter19
Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products19
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach19
Personalized Pricing and Competition19
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation19
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness18
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment18
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality18
Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–191118
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects18
An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System17
Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals17
Targeting Impact versus Deprivation17
Experimentation in Networks17
Front Matter17
Front Matter17
Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization17
Front Matter17
Presidential Address: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis16
Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China16
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss16
Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride16
Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment16
Technology Gaps, Trade, and Income16
Digitization and Pre-Purchase Information: The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings16
A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change15
When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains15
Optimal Monetary Policy According to HANK15
Curbing Leakage in Public Programs: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy14
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission14
Did US Politicians Expect the China Shock?14
Feedbacks: Financial Markets and Economic Activity14
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence14
Trade with Correlation14
Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo14
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities14
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV14
Front Matter14
The Decline of Too Big to Fail14
The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia’s National Health Insurance14
Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity14
Discrete Choice under Risk with Limited Consideration14
The Effect of ­High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors13
Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador13
Front Matter13
The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments13
The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap13
A/B Contracts13
Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India13
Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach13
Counterfactuals with Latent Information13
Dynamic Outside Options and Optimal Negotiation Strategies13
Venting Out: Exports during a Domestic Slump12
Monotone Function Intervals: Theory and Applications12
Front Matter12
Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda12
Inattention and Switching Costs as Sources of Inertia in Medicare Part D12
Closing the Gap: The Effect of Reducing Complexity and Uncertainty in College Pricing on the Choices of Low-Income Students12
100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration12
Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Employment and Pay Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil12
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment12
The Impact of Childhood Social Skills and Self-Control Training on Economic and Noneconomic Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Using Administrative Data11
Separating Ownership and Information11
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