American Economic Review

Papers
(The TQCC of American Economic Review is 30. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter409
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance366
Evaluating the Impact of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio295
Monotonicity among Judges: Evidence from Judicial Panels and Consequences for Judge IV Designs225
Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry203
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies194
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment189
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments174
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation172
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions169
Front Matter168
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium155
Front Matter151
Institution Building without Commitment148
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital147
Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections141
The Reversal Interest Rate138
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa133
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry133
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility130
Market Power and Capital Constraints129
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil129
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate119
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility118
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity115
When Choices Are Mistakes115
Screening Inattentive Buyers115
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force115
A Long and a Short Leg Make for a Wobbly Equilibrium114
Managers and Public Hospital Performance104
Comparisons of Signals99
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China97
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium95
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers94
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa92
Local Productivity Spillovers89
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment89
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality86
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending85
Experimental Cost of Information85
Front Matter84
Buying from a Group82
Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall, and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics81
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits78
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan75
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error73
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation72
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
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature66
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit65
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples65
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field64
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice64
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds63
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?60
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media60
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design59
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children58
Monopsony in the US Labor Market58
Financial Frictions: Micro versus Macro Volatility57
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence55
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment55
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors54
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting54
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy54
The Immigrant Next Door53
Globalization and Pandemics53
Measuring Upward Mobility53
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution50
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment50
Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies50
Front Matter49
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment49
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem49
Front Matter48
Report of Independent Auditor48
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers46
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle46
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing45
Task-Based Discrimination45
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications45
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills45
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs45
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households44
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design44
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry42
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times40
Front Matter40
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility40
Front Matter40
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D40
Front Matter40
The Value of Software39
Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan39
Negative Control Falsification Tests for Instrumental Variable Designs38
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions38
Politics at Work37
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195337
Posterior Separable Cost of Information36
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market36
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice36
A Discrimination Report Card35
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure35
Front Matter35
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity35
Front Matter35
On Binscatter35
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending34
Selling Subscriptions34
Similarity of Information and Collective Action34
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment34
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?34
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization34
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202233
Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium33
Monetary Cooperation during Global Inflation Surges33
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction32
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?32
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages32
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice32
Bargaining with Mechanisms31
A Special Introduction31
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets30
Place-Based Redistribution30
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