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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies	1747
Front Matter	736
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance	279
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments	268
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule	241
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment	180
Security Transitions	158
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia	152
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions	151
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation	147
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium	144
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil	137
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa	131
Front Matter	130
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force	124
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry	121
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital	118
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate	111
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions	109
When Choices Are Mistakes	108
Institution Building without Commitment	105
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility	103
The Reversal Interest Rate	95
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers	93
Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency	92

Experimental Cost of Information	89
Comparisons of Signals	86
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment	85
Screening Inattentive Buyers	85
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors	83
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	83
Local Productivity Spillovers	82
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending	79
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China	79
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity	77
Front Matter	76
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature	74
Buying from a Group	74
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples	73
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation	72
When Do Nudges Increase Welfare?	72
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field	72
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States	71
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan	70
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit	69
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds	68
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines	66
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design	65
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions	65
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda	64
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits	64
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market	63
Monopsony in the US Labor Market	63
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice	63
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error	62
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting	62
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors	61
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment	61
Measuring Upward Mobility	60
Globalization and Pandemics	60
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem	60
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution	59
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence	59
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy	59
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition	56
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment	55
The Immigrant Next Door	55
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment	54
Front Matter	53
Front Matter	53
Report of Independent Auditor	52
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D	51
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times	51
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design	51

Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills	50
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households	50
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle	50
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility	50
Task-Based Discrimination	49
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs	49
Front Matter	48
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States	46
Front Matter	46
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing	46
Front Matter	46
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade	46
Front Matter	46
A Discrimination Report Card	45
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 1953	45
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice	45
Posterior Separable Cost of Information	44
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables	43
Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin	43
Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools	42
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market	42
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions	41
Front Matter	40
How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Booking Systems	39
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending	38
Front Matter	38
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity	38
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?	38
Delegation in Veto Bargaining	38
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice	36
Selling Subscriptions	36
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment	36
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure	36
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages	35
Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market	35
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–2022	35
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization	35
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War	34
On Binscatter	34
On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms	34
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?	34
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction	32
Bargaining with Mechanisms	32
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy	32
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions	32
A Special Introduction	32
From Mad Men to Maths Men: Concentration and Buyer Power in Online Advertising	31
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities	31
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets	31
Adverse and Advantageous Selection in the Laboratory	31
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans	31