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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter2143
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule908
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions322
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies322
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia222
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments195
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance174
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment172
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation172
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium164
Front Matter154
Institution Building without Commitment144
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry143
Front Matter139
When Choices Are Mistakes136
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions135
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital131
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force120
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa117
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility116
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil110
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate109
The Reversal Interest Rate105
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium104
Experimental Cost of Information101
Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency99
Comparisons of Signals99
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity98
Screening Inattentive Buyers95
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending95
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment95
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers89
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors89
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China88
Managers and Public Hospital Performance88
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa87
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality86
Local Productivity Spillovers84
Front Matter82
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature82
Buying from a Group81
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions80
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?79
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds77
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits76
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples75
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan74
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States73
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field72
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines72
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda71
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error70
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation70
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design70
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market69
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit68
Monopsony in the US Labor Market67
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice67
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment66
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence65
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting65
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition64
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors63
Globalization and Pandemics63
Measuring Upward Mobility60
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment58
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment58
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution56
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy56
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem55
The Immigrant Next Door55
Front Matter55
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry53
Report of Independent Auditor53
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design52
Front Matter51
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle50
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States50
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times49
Task-Based Discrimination49
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs49
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications48
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households47
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers46
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills45
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade45
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D44
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing44
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility44
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Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice42
Politics at Work42
The Value of Software41
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions41
A Discrimination Report Card41
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables41
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market40
Posterior Separable Cost of Information40
Front Matter40
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195340
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure39
Front Matter39
Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium39
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment38
On Binscatter38
Selling Subscriptions38
Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market37
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War37
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice37
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages37
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?37
Delegation in Veto Bargaining36
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?35
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending34
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization34
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity34
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202234
A Special Introduction33
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction33
Place-Based Redistribution32
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions32
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities31
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets31
The Voice of Monetary Policy31
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias30
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy30
Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility30
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans30
Crowding in School Choice29
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Bargaining with Mechanisms29
Loans for the “Little Fellow”: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression28
Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses, and Adverse Selection27
Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality27
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being27
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?27
Do Credit Conditions Move House Prices?27
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”27
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China27
Micro versus Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort27
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea27
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population27
How Do National Firms Respond to Local Cost Shocks?27
Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity26
Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share26
Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India25
Test-Optional Admissions25
Front Matter25
The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German (Hyper)Inflation25
Robust Monopoly Regulation24
Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development24
Presidential Address: Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years24
The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation24
Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock24
Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth24
Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness24
Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets23
State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy: The Refinancing Channel23
The Cost of Information: The Case of Constant Marginal Costs22
Supply Network Formation and Fragility22
RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital22
Regulation Design in Insurance Markets22
Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing22
Start-Up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition22
Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey21
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health21
Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism21
Valuing Long-Term Property Rights with Anticipated Political Regime Shifts21
Effective Demand Failures and the Limits of Monetary Stabilization Policy21
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA21
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement21
When Money Dies: The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations21
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies20
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR20
Nobel Lecture: Paths to the Periphery20
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects20
The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household20
Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change: A Nearest-Neighbor Design20
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment19
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For19
Personalized Pricing and Competition19
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration19
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France19
The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation19
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach19
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis18
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation18
Populist Leaders and the Economy18
Front Matter18
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations18
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care18
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs18
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The Human Side of Structural Transformation18
Targeting Impact versus Deprivation17
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment17
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality17
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness17
Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products17
Front Matter16
Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–191116
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Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects16
A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change15
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Optimal Monetary Policy According to HANK15
Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals15
Monetary Policy and Rational Asset Price Bubbles: Comment15
Presidential Address: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis15
Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment15
Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride15
Experimentation in Networks15
Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban14
Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization14
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss14
The Decline of Too Big to Fail14
When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains14
An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System14
Front Matter14
Technology Gaps, Trade, and Income14
Trade with Correlation13
Did US Politicians Expect the China Shock?13
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities13
Curbing Leakage in Public Programs: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy13
Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo13
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence13
Consistent Evidence on Duration Dependence of Price Changes13
Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity13
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV13
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission13
Monotone Function Intervals: Theory and Applications12
Front Matter12
A/B Contracts12
Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador11
Increasing Degree Attainment among Low-Income Students: The Role of Intensive Advising and College Quality11
Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach11
Counterfactuals with Latent Information11
100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration11
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Dynamic Outside Options and Optimal Negotiation Strategies11
Venting Out: Exports during a Domestic Slump11
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The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap11
The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments11
Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India11
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