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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter421
Monotonicity among Judges: Evidence from Judicial Panels and Consequences for Judge IV Designs306
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions233
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies202
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance198
Evaluating the Impact of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio179
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment179
Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry179
Quota versus Quality? Long-Term Gains from an Unusual Gender Quota174
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation159
Front Matter158
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa153
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium151
Front Matter150
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry146
Market Power and Capital Constraints138
Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections137
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital136
Conservation Priorities and Environmental Offsets: Markets for Florida Wetlands134
When Choices Are Mistakes133
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate124
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility121
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil118
Institution Building without Commitment116
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility115
The Reversal Interest Rate114
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force107
Screening Inattentive Buyers104
Experimental Cost of Information102
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality97
Managers and Public Hospital Performance96
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium92
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers92
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa91
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment89
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China87
Local Productivity Spillovers87
Comparisons of Signals87
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity84
A Long and a Short Leg Make for a Wobbly Equilibrium83
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending82
Front Matter75
Buying from a Group73
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation73
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States70
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda68
Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall, and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics67
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits66
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan66
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples66
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature66
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children65
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice62
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design61
The Effect of Field Training Officers on Police Use of Force61
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field60
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit59
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media59
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?57
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds55
Monopsony in the US Labor Market55
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error55
Measuring Upward Mobility54
Financial Frictions: Micro versus Macro Volatility54
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy53
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors52
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment52
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment52
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution51
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence50
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem50
The Immigrant Next Door50
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting48
Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies48
Globalization and Pandemics48
Report of Independent Auditor47
Front Matter47
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment47
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle46
Front Matter46
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design45
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications45
Task-Based Discrimination44
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times43
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs43
Production and Financial Networks in Interplay42
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households42
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D42
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry41
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills40
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing40
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers40
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility40
Front Matter39
Front Matter38
Front Matter38
A Discrimination Report Card37
The Value of Software37
Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan37
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions36
Politics at Work36
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market36
Negative Control Falsification Tests for Instrumental Variable Designs36
Posterior Separable Cost of Information36
Front Matter35
Front Matter35
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice35
Front Matter35
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195335
Selling Subscriptions34
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?34
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure34
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment33
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice33
Similarity of Information and Collective Action32
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?32
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202232
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending32
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity31
Monetary Cooperation during Global Inflation Surges31
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization31
On Binscatter30
Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium30
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages29
Place-Based Redistribution29
Front Matter29
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions29
Bargaining with Mechanisms29
Equal Pay for Similar Work28
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction28
Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility27
The Voice of Monetary Policy27
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias27
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy27
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets27
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans27
Front Matter27
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities27
Front Matter27
Front Matter27
Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses, and Adverse Selection26
Loans for the “Little Fellow”: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression26
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being26
Crowding in School Choice25
Micro versus Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort25
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?25
Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity25
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea25
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China25
Mergers, Foreign Competition, and Jobs: Evidence from the US Appliance Industry24
Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality24
Elite Universities and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital24
Do Credit Conditions Move House Prices?24
Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share23
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”23
The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German (Hyper)Inflation22
Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth22
Front Matter22
Making Bricks from Straw: Resources and Productivity in Health Care22
Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness22
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population22
Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development22
RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital22
Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets21
Presidential Address: Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years20
Start-Up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition20
Supply Network Formation and Fragility20
Test-Optional Admissions20
Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing20
Robust Monopoly Regulation20
The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation20
Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock20
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap20
Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India19
Valuing Long-Term Property Rights with Anticipated Political Regime Shifts19
The Cost of Information: The Case of Constant Marginal Costs19
Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey19
When Money Dies: The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations19
Regulation Design in Insurance Markets19
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA19
Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change: A Nearest-Neighbor Design18
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs18
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR18
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects18
Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals18
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health18
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement18
Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences18
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis17
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations17
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France17
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment17
Personalized Pricing and Competition17
The Human Side of Structural Transformation16
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach16
Nobel Lecture: Paths to the Periphery16
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies16
The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household16
Changing Income Risk across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter16
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For16
Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products15
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care15
Populist Leaders and the Economy15
Optimal Taxation and Market Power15
Front Matter15
Front Matter15
Targeting Impact versus Deprivation15
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness15
Front Matter15
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment14
Front Matter14
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects14
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality14
The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid14
Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development14
First-Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks14
Work from Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse14
Front Matter13
Social Preferences over Ordinal Outcomes13
Optimal Monetary Policy According to HANK13
Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment13
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss13
Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals13
Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants13
Presidential Address: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis13
Consistent Evidence on Duration Dependence of Price Changes12
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission12
Monetary Policy and Rational Asset Price Bubbles: Comment12
Experimentation in Networks12
The Decline of Too Big to Fail12
Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban12
A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change12
Did US Politicians Expect the China Shock?12
Curbing Leakage in Public Programs: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy12
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities12
When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains12
Technology Gaps, Trade, and Income12
Trade with Correlation11
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV11
Monotone Function Intervals: Theory and Applications11
Immigration, Innovation, and Growth11
Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity11
Front Matter11
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence11
Dynamic Outside Options and Optimal Negotiation Strategies11
What You Don’t Know May Be Good for You10
Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India10
Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador10
Games on Multiplex Networks10
Increasing Degree Attainment among Low-Income Students: The Role of Intensive Advising and College Quality10
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