OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Economic Review is 32. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	1942
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule	830
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies	297
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment	295
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments	198
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance	181
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation	163
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions	160
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia	159
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium	154
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil	151
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa	144
Front Matter	133
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force	133
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital	126
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry	126
Institution Building without Commitment	123
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate	120
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility	105
When Choices Are Mistakes	105
Front Matter	104
The Reversal Interest Rate	98
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions	95
Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency	93
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity	92

Experimental Cost of Information	91
Comparisons of Signals	91
Local Productivity Spillovers	90
Screening Inattentive Buyers	90
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors	89
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium	89
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers	89
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment	86
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending	85
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China	84
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa	83
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality	80
Front Matter	79
When Do Nudges Increase Welfare?	76
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature	76
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda	75
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error	75
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan	73
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds	72
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines	72
Buying from a Group	71
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States	71
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions	71
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field	71
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples	71
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit	69
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design	69
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation	68
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market	67
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice	67
Monopsony in the US Labor Market	66
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits	65
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy	65
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment	64
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution	63
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting	62
Measuring Upward Mobility	62
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment	60
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition	60
Globalization and Pandemics	60
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem	58
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors	58
The Immigrant Next Door	58
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment	56
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence	55
Front Matter	54
Front Matter	54
Report of Independent Auditor	54
Front Matter	53
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D	52

The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle	52
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design	52
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade	50
Task-Based Discrimination	49
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times	49
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs	49
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States	49
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills	48
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility	47
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry	47
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households	47
Front Matter	46
Front Matter	46
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing	46
Front Matter	45
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 1953	44
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice	43
Posterior Separable Cost of Information	42
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market	41
Front Matter	40
Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin	40
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables	40
A Discrimination Report Card	40
Front Matter	40
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions	40
Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market	39
On Binscatter	38
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity	38
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure	37
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?	37
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice	37
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending	36
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?	36
Delegation in Veto Bargaining	36
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–2022	36
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization	36
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment	36
Bargaining with Mechanisms	35
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages	35
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction	35
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War	35
A Special Introduction	35
Selling Subscriptions	35
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions	34
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets	33
From Mad Men to Maths Men: Concentration and Buyer Power in Online Advertising	33
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans	33
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities	32
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias	32
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy	32
The Voice of Monetary Policy	32