OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Economic Review is 31. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	2332
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments	358
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance	336
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment	247
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation	205
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies	188
Monotonicity among Judges: Evidence from Judicial Panels and Consequences for Judge IV Designs	184
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions	181
Front Matter	175
Institution Building without Commitment	169
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa	157
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry	153
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions	149
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility	146
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil	144
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate	144
Front Matter	134
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium	127
Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections	124
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital	123
When Choices Are Mistakes	122
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility	119
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force	111
The Reversal Interest Rate	110
Experimental Cost of Information	108

All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity	105
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China	105
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers	105
Screening Inattentive Buyers	103
Comparisons of Signals	102
Managers and Public Hospital Performance	100
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality	99
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment	99
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium	99
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa	98
Local Productivity Spillovers	92
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending	91
Front Matter	91
Buying from a Group	87
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature	87
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error	83
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits	83
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit	82
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field	79
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda	78
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children	78
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design	78
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States	78
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds	78
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media	76
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples	73
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions	72
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation	72
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan	71
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market	71
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice	70
When Do Nudges Increase Welfare?	69
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines	69
Monopsony in the US Labor Market	69
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy	67
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors	60
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment	60
Globalization and Pandemics	59
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment	59
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting	59
Measuring Upward Mobility	59
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition	58
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence	58
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem	57
The Immigrant Next Door	57
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment	55
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution	55
Front Matter	54
Report of Independent Auditor	54
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle	54

Front Matter	54
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times	53
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry	51
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications	51
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers	51
Task-Based Discrimination	50
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade	50
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households	49
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design	48
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States	48
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs	47
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D	47
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing	47
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills	46
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions	45
Front Matter	45
Front Matter	45
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility	45
Front Matter	45
Politics at Work	44
The Value of Software	44
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice	43
A Discrimination Report Card	43
Posterior Separable Cost of Information	43
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 1953	43
Front Matter	42
Front Matter	42
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market	42
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice	40
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending	40
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization	40
Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium	40
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?	39
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–2022	39
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure	38
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?	37
Selling Subscriptions	37
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment	36
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages	35
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity	34
Monetary Cooperation during Global Inflation Surges	34
On Binscatter	34
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions	33
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias	33
A Special Introduction	33
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy	33
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction	33
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets	32
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans	32
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities	31
Bargaining with Mechanisms	31
Place-Based Redistribution	31
Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility	31