Economic Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Economic Journal is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Heterogeneous Dynasties and Long-Run Mobility*124
Hobo Economicus*106
Using List Prices to Collude or to Compete?82
Revenue persistence and public service delivery62
How do Workers Adjust to Robots? Evidence from China59
Ride-Sharing and the Geography of Consumption Industries59
Formal Employment and Organised Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia58
An inquiry into the relationship between intelligence and prosocial behavior: Evidence from Swedish population registers55
Is School-Based Financial Education Effective? Immediate and Long-Lasting Impacts on High School Students52
Welfare Effects of Housing Transaction Taxes: A Quantitative Analysis with an Assignment Model50
The Material basis of Cooperation: how Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behaviour45
Must Agreements Be Kept? Residential Leases During Covid-19*40
Preheating Prosocial Behaviour37
Populist Persuasion in Electoral Campaigns: Evidence from Bryan's Unique Whistle-Stop Tour35
Erratum to Highways, Market Access and Spatial Sorting34
Major Reforms in Electricity Pricing: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment31
Financial Frictions and Firm Informality: A General Equilibrium Perspective30
Economic Distress and Children’s Mental Health: Evidence from the Brazilian High-Risk Cohort Study for Mental Conditions28
Do Celebrity Endorsements Matter? A Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia27
Accommodating the Rise in Urbanisation: Are New Towns a Good Solution?27
Correction to: Sentiments and Economic Activity: Evidence from US States24
Winter is Coming: Early-life Experiences and Politicians’ Decisions24
Flattening of the Phillips Curve with State-Dependent Prices and Wages24
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus at-will Contracts23
Social Class and (Un)Ethical Behaviour: Causal and Correlational Evidence23
Judicial Quality, Input Customisation, and Trade Margins: The Role of Product Quality23
Unemployment and Development23
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises22
Urbanisation and the Onset of Modern Economic Growth22
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico21
p-Hacking, Data type and Data-Sharing Policy21
Steering Fallible Consumers20
Jumping the Gun: How Dictators Got Ahead of Their Subjects19
Economic Shocks and Populism19
Informal Incentives and Labour Markets18
Who's Afraid of Policy Experiments?18
Safe Assets17
The Effect of Adult Entertainment Establishments on Sex Crime: Evidence from New York City17
Austerity Harmed Student Achievement16
Gone with the wind: The consequences of US drone strikes in Pakistan16
Public Good Superstars: A Lab-in-the-Field Study of Wikipedia16
Technology-Neutral Versus Technology-Specific Procurement16
Unintended Consequences of Central Bank Lending in Financial Crises16
Sharing News Left and Right: Frictions and Misinformation on Twitter15
Catholic Censorship and the Demise of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Italy15
The Impact of State-Provided Education: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act15
We are All in the Same Boat: Cross-Border Spillovers of Climate Shocks through International Trade and Supply Chains15
Relative Income and Mental Health in Couples15
Enforcement of Labour Regulation and the Labour Market Effects of Trade: Evidence from Brazil14
Human Capital and Financial Development: Firm-Level Interactions and Macroeconomic Implications14
The Power of the Pill: Evidence from Oral Contraceptive Sales14
Risk Attitudes and Conflict in the Household14
Housing Prices and Credit Constraints in Competitive Search13
Experimental Evidence on Four Policies to Increase Learning at Scale13
Improving Administrative Data at Scale: Experimental Evidence on Digital Testing in Indian Schools13
Partitioned Pricing and Collusion on Surcharges13
Why High Incentives Cause Repugnance: a Framed Field Experiment13
Income-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions12
The Shale Revolution and the Dynamics of the Oil Market12
Transport and urban growth in the First Industrial Revolution12
The Merit Primacy Effect12
Trade and Domestic Policies under Monopolistic Competition12
Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialisation12
Management Practices and Quality of Care: Evidence from the Private Health Care Sector in Tanzania12
Score Disclosure12
Putting Countries on the Map? Pastoral Visits of John Paul II and International Trade12
Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China12
Media, Spillovers and Social Norms: The Electoral Impact of Anti-Far-Right Protests in the 2002 French Election11
Information Aggregation in Stratified Societies11
Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Human Capital: Evidence from a Survey Experiment11
The Rise of Pass-Throughs: an Empirical Investigation11
The Efficiency Costs of Dividend Taxation with Managerial Firms*11
Refugee Relocation: A Mechanism Design Approach11
Dust and Death: Evidence from the West African Harmattan11
Decision Times Reveal Private Information in Strategic Settings: Evidence from Bargaining Experiments11
Strategic Campaign Communication: Evidence from 30,000 Candidate Manifestos11
Emotion and Reason in Political Language10
Optimal Fiscal Consolidation Under Frictional Financial Markets10
The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns Across France10
Economic Preferences and Personality Traits Among Finance Professionals and the General Population10
Bundling Genetic and Financial Technologies for More Resilient and Productive Small-Scale Farmers in Africa10
To Defer or to Differ: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Cash Transfers in Nigerian Couples’ Decision-Making10
Who Sells During a Crash? Evidence from Tax Return Data on Daily Sales of Stock9
Production Networks And International Fiscal Spillovers9
Mental Capabilities, Heterogeneous Trading Behaviour and Performance in an Experimental Asset Market9
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions using Direct Evidence on Sharing9
Corruption and Firm Growth: Evidence from around the World9
The Null Result Penalty9
Trade-Offs of Attending Better Schools: Achievement, Self-Perceptions and Educational Trajectories9
Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility9
Vaccines and Verdicts: How Smallpox Court Decisions Affect Anti-Vaccine Discourse and Mortality9
Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Composition: Understanding Match Effects in the Classroom9
Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,153 Subnational Regions9
Obesity, Poverty and Public Policy9
Borrowing Constraints and Demand for Remedial Education: Evidence from Tanzania8
Commuting for Crime8
Interactions in Public Policies: Spousal Responses and Program Spillovers of Welfare Reforms8
Auctions with Privately Known Capacities: Understanding Competition Among Renewables8
The Effects of Tax Changes on Economic Activity: A Narrative Approach to Frequent Anticipations8
Transitory Income Windfalls and Charitable Giving: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data, 1993–20218
Fuelling Organised Crime: the Mexican War on Drugs and Oil Theft8
Housing Expenditure and Income Inequality8
Radicalisation8
Agricultural Technological Change, Female Earnings and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil8
Mobility Responses to Special Tax Regimes for the Super-Rich: Evidence from Switzerland8
The Usual Suspects: Offender Origin, Media Reporting and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigration8
On Target? Sanctions and the Economic Interests of Elite Policymakers in Iran8
Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis7
The Coronavirus Stimulus Package: How Large is the Transfer Multiplier7
Telementoring and Homeschooling During School Closures: a Randomised Experiment in Rural Bangladesh7
Personality Traits Across the Life Cycle: Disentangling Age, Period and Cohort Effects*7
When Information Conflicts with Obligations: the Role of Motivated Cognition7
Measuring Social Benefits of Media Coverage: How Coverage of Climate Change Affects Behaviour7
The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures7
Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge7
Environmental Adaptation of Risk Preferences7
The Criminogenic Consequence of Export Slowdown: Evidence from Millions of Court Judgment Documents in China6
Taking Back Control? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Retirement on Locus of Control6
The Forward-Looking Effect of Increasing the Full Retirement Age6
Peer Effects in Academic Research: Senders and Receivers6
Lobbying for Globalisation6
Location, Location, Location: Manufacturing and House Price Growth6
Overlapping Climate Policies6
Gender-Specific Application Behaviour, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap6
Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of US Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968–20186
Patterns of Labour Market Adjustment to Trade Shocks with Imperfect Capital Mobility6
Innovation and Distribution: an Equilibrium Model of Manufacturing and Retailing6
The Mortality Effects of Winter Heating Prices6
House Prices and Misallocation: The Impact of the Collateral Channel on Productivity6
Does Homeownership Reduce Crime? A Radical Housing Reform from the UK6
The Promises and Pitfalls of Using (Mostly) Low-Touch Coaching Interventions to Improve College Student Outcomes5
Scared Straight or Scared to Death? Fatalism in Response to Disease Risks5
Political Language in Economics5
Temperature’s Toll on Decision-Making5
The Political Scar of Epidemics5
Iterated Admissibility does not Refine Extensive-form Rationalizability5
Social Value of Public Information in Bargaining5
Measuring the Total Number of US Job Seekers5
Long-Run Effects of Aid: Forecasts and Evidence from Sierra Leone5
Sick of Working from Home?5
Fertility Beliefs and Outcomes: the Role of Relationship Status and Attractiveness5
Judicial Capture5
Exporting and Offshoring with Monopsonistic Competition5
Robot Imports and Firm-Level Outcomes5
The Demand for News: Accuracy Concerns Versus Belief Confirmation Motives5
The Births, Lives and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia5
Destructive Behaviour, Judgement, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress5
Understanding Ethnolinguistic Differences: The Roles of Geography and Trade5
Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention5
Cyclical Government Spending: Theory and Empirics5
A Behavioural Theory of Discrimination in Policing5
The Heterogeneous Tax Pass-Through Under Different Vertical Relationships5
Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment5
Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the US5
Dating the Lender of Last Resort5
The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match4
Application Costs and Congestion in Matching Markets4
Immigration, Female Labour Supply and Local Cultural Norms4
The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution4
Erratum to: Psychological Effects of Poverty on Time Preferences4
How Effective are Female Role Models in Steering Girls Towards STEM? Evidence from French High Schools4
Earnings Responses to Even Higher Taxes4
The Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden4
Discrimination Between Religious and Non-Religious Groups: Evidence from Marking High-Stakes Exams4
Preferences, Confusion and Competition4
Labour Mobility and Earnings in the Uk, 1992–20174
Information Operations Increase Civilian Security Cooperation4
Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations*4
Cash Versus Kind: Benchmarking a Child Nutrition Program Against Unconditional Cash Transfers in Rwanda4
On the Importance of Social Status for Occupational Sorting4
Threat of Sabotage as a Driver of Collective Action4
Considering the Counterfactual: Real Wages in the First Industrial Revolution4
Cognitive Skills and Economic Preferences in the Fund Industry4
Recruiting Intensity, Hires and Vacancies: Evidence from Firm-Level Data4
Estimating the Cost of Capital and the Profit Share4
Correction to: Economic Preferences and Personality Traits among Finance Professionals and the General Population4
Atlantic Trade and Conflict in Europe4
Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Ageing4
Shifting Punishment onto Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating4
International Trade and Innovation Dynamics with Endogenous Markups4
Monopsony Power and Wages: Evidence from the Introduction of Serfdom in Denmark4
Salience and Accountability: School Infrastructure and Last-Minute Electoral Punishment*4
Finance and Green Growth4
Critical Periods in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development: Evidence from Weather Shocks in Indonesia4
Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking4
The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field4
Market Participation and Moral Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence from Greenland4
Church Membership and Economic Recovery: Evidence from the 2005 Hurricane Season4
Culture and Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete4
From Connections to Merit: Anti-Corruption Reform and Occupational Mobility in China's Civil Service4
FAQ: How do I estimate the output gap?4
Data-Driven Envelopment with Privacy-Policy Tying3
The Dark Side of Infrastructure: Roads, Repression and Land in Authoritarian Paraguay3
Competition, Cooperation, and Social Perceptions3
Local exposure to refugees changed attitudes to ethnic minorities in the Netherlands3
Employment Decline During the Great Recession: the Role of Firm Size Distribution3
Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns3
Kinship Taxation as an Impediment to Growth: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Microenterprises3
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights and the Persistence in Britain'S Industrialisation3
The Limitations of Activity-Based Instruction to Improve the Productivity of Schooling3
Declining Search Frictions, Unemployment and Self-Employment3
Child Penalties in Politics3
A comment on buyers’ miscoordination, entry, and downstream competition3
Is the output growth rate in NIPA a welfare measure?3
Demand Shocks and Firm Investment: Micro-Evidence from Fiscal Retrenchment in Italy3
Demand, Supply And Markup Fluctuations3
Expectations, Wage Hikes and Worker Voice3
Expectation Formation with Correlated Variables3
The Impact of the WWI Agricultural Boom and Bust on Female Opportunity Cost and Fertility3
Lives or Livelihoods? Perceived Trade-Offs and Policy Views3
Trading Favours through the Revolving Door: Evidence from China’s Primary Land Market*3
Domino Secessions3
Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment3
Effects and Mechanisms of CEO Quality in Public Education3
The Welfare Effects of Greenbelt Policy: Evidence from England3
How to Regulate Carbon Emissions with Climate-Conscious Consumers3
Macroevolutionary Origins of Comparative Development3
Beyond Short-Term Learning Gains: the Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia After Three Years3
The Role of Mindset in Education : A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Disadvantaged Schools3
Multi-Dimensional Skills and Gender Differences in STEM Majors3
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