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 2021-08-01 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
Experimental Cost of Information91
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending91
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
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality79
Front Matter79
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation77
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error77
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature76
Buying from a Group76
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
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits71
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?71
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design69
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit69
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan69
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
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market65
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
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
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem60
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment60
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors60
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition58
Measuring Upward Mobility55
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting55
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy55
Front Matter54
Front Matter54
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence54
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D53
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times53
Report of Independent Auditor53
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade52
Front Matter52
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design52
Task-Based Discrimination51
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs50
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills50
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility48
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle48
Front Matter47
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing47
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households47
Front Matter47
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States47
Front Matter46
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195345
A Discrimination Report Card44
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions44
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice43
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market42
Posterior Separable Cost of Information42
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables42
Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin41
Front Matter40
Front Matter40
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice39
Selling Subscriptions39
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure39
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?39
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War38
Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market37
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment36
Delegation in Veto Bargaining36
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages35
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?35
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending35
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202235
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization35
On Binscatter34
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity34
A Special Introduction33
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction33
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy33
Bargaining with Mechanisms33
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions33
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans32
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias32
From Mad Men to Maths Men: Concentration and Buyer Power in Online Advertising32
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets32
The Voice of Monetary Policy32
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities32
Front Matter31
Loans for the “Little Fellow”: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression31
Front Matter31
Crowding in School Choice31
Front Matter31
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?30
How Do National Firms Respond to Local Cost Shocks?29
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being29
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea29
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population29
Front Matter28
Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share27
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”27
Front Matter27
Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality27
RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital27
Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity27
Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses, and Adverse Selection27
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China27
Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets26
Presidential Address: Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years26
The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German (Hyper)Inflation26
Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness26
Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock26
Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India26
Supply Network Formation and Fragility25
Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth25
Robust Monopoly Regulation25
State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy: The Refinancing Channel25
Start-Up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition25
Regulation Design in Insurance Markets24
When Money Dies: The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations24
The Cost of Information: The Case of Constant Marginal Costs24
Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing24
The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation24
Valuing Long-Term Property Rights with Anticipated Political Regime Shifts24
Effective Demand Failures and the Limits of Monetary Stabilization Policy23
Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey23
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement23
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA23
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health23
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects22
The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household22
Nobel Lecture: Paths to the Periphery22
Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism22
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies22
Projection of Private Values in Auctions22
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR22
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment22
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs21
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For21
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations20
Populist Leaders and the Economy20
The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation20
The Human Side of Structural Transformation20
Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration20
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France20
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation20
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach20
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis20
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration19
Front Matter19
Personalized Pricing and Competition19
Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products19
Front Matter19
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality18
Targeting Impact versus Deprivation18
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects18
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care17
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness17
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment17
Front Matter17
Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–191117
Front Matter17
Presidential Address: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis16
Experimentation in Networks16
Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals16
A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change16
An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System16
Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride16
When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains16
Optimal Monetary Policy According to HANK16
Technology Gaps, Trade, and Income16
Front Matter16
Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment16
Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization16
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss15
The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia’s National Health Insurance15
Curbing Leakage in Public Programs: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy15
The Decline of Too Big to Fail15
Monetary Policy and Rational Asset Price Bubbles: Comment15
Front Matter15
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities14
Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo14
Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity14
Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador14
Did US Politicians Expect the China Shock?14
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission14
Front Matter14
Trade with Correlation14
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV14
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence14
A/B Contracts14
Dynamic Outside Options and Optimal Negotiation Strategies13
Inattention and Switching Costs as Sources of Inertia in Medicare Part D13
The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap13
Venting Out: Exports during a Domestic Slump13
100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration13
Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India13
The Effect of ­High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors13
Counterfactuals with Latent Information13
Monotone Function Intervals: Theory and Applications13
The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments13
Front Matter12
Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach12
The Comparative Statics of Sorting12
Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda12
Front Matter12
Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Employment and Pay Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil12
Does Context Outweigh Individual Characteristics in Driving Voting Behavior? Evidence from Relocations within the United States11
Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness11
Targeting In-Kind Transfers through Market Design: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Public Housing Allocation11
Prudential Policy with Distorted Beliefs11
Fiscal Policy and Credit Supply in a Crisis11
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment11
Profits, Scale Economies, and the Gains from Trade and Industrial Policy11
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