American Economic Review

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News1508
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When Should There Be Vertical Choice in Health Insurance Markets?256
The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation230
Impacts of Performance Pay for Hospitals: The Readmissions Reduction Program217
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How to Use Natural Experiments to Estimate Misallocation173
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The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household152
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Empowering Adolescents to Transform Schools: Lessons from a Behavioral Targeting144
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Learning from Manipulable Signals134
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market130
Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment125
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR125
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Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations107
Selling Consumer Data for Profit: Optimal ­Market-Segmentation Design and Its Consequences104
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 1953103
Smart Contracts and the Coase Conjecture100
Front Matter98
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies93
Quality Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Taste Projection in Markets with Observational Learning92
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies89
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For88
Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital: Comment84
Market Fragmentation80
Security Transitions79
Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia78
A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh78
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A Discrimination Report Card76
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance76
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When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in US Electricity Generation: Reply75
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments73
Evaluating Deliberative Competence: A Simple Method with an Application to Financial Choice73
Motivated Errors73
Wetlands, Flooding, and the Clean Water Act70
Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technical Change69
Mental Models and Learning: The Case of Base-Rate Neglect69
Disentangling Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection67
Design-Based Research in Empirical Microeconomics67
Unobserved-Offers Bargaining67
Dynamic Amnesty Programs66
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France66
Who Set Your Wage?65
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis64
Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from Four Field Experiments64
Optimally Imprecise Memory and Biased Forecasts63
Belief Distortions and Macroeconomic Fluctuations62
Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy62
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice61
Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools61
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach60
Cross-Region Transfer Multipliers in a Monetary Union: Evidence from Social Security and Stimulus Payments60
Front Matter57
The Real State: Inside the Congo’s Traffic Police Agency57
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation57
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs57
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation57
Evidence and Lessons on the Health Impacts of Public Health Funding from the Fight against HIV/AIDS55
Posterior Separable Cost of Information55
The Human Side of Structural Transformation54
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions54
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration53
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment53
Jobs for Sale: Corruption and Misallocation in Hiring52
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia52
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables51
Personalized Pricing and Competition51
Auction Research Evolving: Theorems and Market Designs50
The Risk-Adjusted Carbon Price49
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment49
Financial Technology Adoption: Network Externalities of Cashless Payments in Mexico49
Myopia and Anchoring49
Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration48
Measuring Geopolitical Risk48
Populist Leaders and the Economy47
The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa46
Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin46
Revealing Choice Bracketing46
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule46
Labor Rationing45
Employer Incentives and Distortions in Health Insurance Design: Implications for Welfare and Costs45
Droughts, Deluges, and (River) Diversions: Valuing Market-Based Water Reallocation44
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium43
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care43
The Role of Behavioral Frictions in Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment and Risk: Evidence from a Field Experiment42
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Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market41
Implementation by Vote-Buying Mechanisms41
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Market Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Reply41
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate40
Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency40
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry39
Optimal Procurement with Quality Concerns38
Front Matter38
Dynamic Price Competition, Learning-by-Doing, and Strategic Buyers38
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment38
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Institution Building without Commitment37
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force37
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Welfare Comparisons for Biased Learning36
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes among Adolescents36
How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Booking Systems35
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202235
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects35
Justified Communication Equilibrium35
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure34
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending34
Front Matter34
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa33
In-Kind Transfers as Insurance33
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity32
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality32
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Energy Subsidies32
Parental Resources and College Attendance: Evidence from Lottery Wins31
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness31
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