Economic Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Economic Journal is 2. 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
The Interplay Among Savings Accounts and Network-Based Financial Arrangements: Evidence from a Field Experiment228
The Promises and Pitfalls of Using (Mostly) Low-Touch Coaching Interventions to Improve College Student Outcomes127
How Dark Trading Harms Financial Markets107
The Emperor’s Geography—City Locations, Nature and Institutional Optimisation92
Employment Decline During the Great Recession: the Role of Firm Size Distribution81
Peer Effects in Academic Research: Senders and Receivers78
An inquiry into the relationship between intelligence and prosocial behavior: Evidence from Swedish population registers57
Heterogeneous Dynasties and Long-Run Mobility*56
Child Penalties in Politics54
Understanding Ethnolinguistic Differences: The Roles of Geography and Trade53
Erosion of State Power, Corruption Control and Fiscal Capacity52
The Welfare Effects of Greenbelt Policy: Evidence from England48
Economic Persistence Despite Adverse Policies: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan43
Declining Search Frictions, Unemployment and Self-Employment40
Decision Times Reveal Private Information in Strategic Settings: Evidence from Bargaining Experiments38
The Brides of Boko Haram: Economic Shocks, Marriage Practices, and Insurgency in Nigeria38
How to Regulate Carbon Emissions with Climate-Conscious Consumers32
Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment31
Kinship Taxation as an Impediment to Growth: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Microenterprises30
Ride-Sharing and the Geography of Consumption Industries29
Scared Straight or Scared to Death? Fatalism in Response to Disease Risks25
Score Disclosure24
A comment on buyers’ miscoordination, entry, and downstream competition24
Culture and Contracts: The Historical Legacy of Forced Labour24
Media, Spillovers, and Social Norms: The Electoral Impact of Anti-Far Right Protests in the 2002 French Election24
The Dark Side of Infrastructure: Roads, Repression and Land in Authoritarian Paraguay22
Dust and Death: Evidence from the West African Harmattan22
The Material basis of Cooperation: how Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behaviour22
Relative Performance Feedback in Education: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial*21
Using List Prices to Collude or to Compete?21
The Shale Revolution and the Dynamics of the Oil Market21
Inefficient Collective Households: Cooperation and Consumption20
Welfare Effects of Housing Transaction Taxes: A Quantitative Analysis with an Assignment Model20
Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of US Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968–201819
Effects and Mechanisms of CEO Quality in Public Education19
Income-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions18
Does Homeownership Reduce Crime? A Radical Housing Reform from the UK18
Trading Favours through the Revolving Door: Evidence from China’s Primary Land Market*17
Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices16
Teaching Norms: Direct Evidence of Parental Transmission16
Demand Shocks and Firm Investment: Micro-Evidence from Fiscal Retrenchment in Italy16
Is the output growth rate in NIPA a welfare measure?15
Hobo Economicus*15
Can External Threats Foster a European Union Identity? Evidence from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine15
The Rise of Pass-Throughs: an Empirical Investigation15
Mortality Risk Information, Survival Expectations and Sexual Behaviours15
Dating the Lender of Last Resort14
Formal Employment and Organised Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia14
House Prices and Misallocation: The Impact of the Collateral Channel on Productivity14
Long-Run Effects of Aid: Forecasts and Evidence from Sierra Leone14
A Time for Action on Climate Change and a Time for Change in Economics14
The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters14
Data-Driven Envelopment with Privacy-Policy Tying14
Kin Networks and Institutional Development13
The Impact of Corporate QE on Liquidity: Evidence from the UK13
Is School-Based Financial Education Effective? Immediate and Long-Lasting Impacts on High School Students13
Commitment and the Dynamics of Household Labour Supply13
Preheating Prosocial Behaviour12
Trade and Domestic Policies under Monopolistic Competition12
To Defer or to Differ: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Cash Transfers in Nigerian Couples’ Decision–Making12
Exporting and Offshoring with Monopsonistic Competition12
How do Workers Adjust to Robots? Evidence from China12
Fertility Beliefs and Outcomes: the Role of Relationship Status and Attractiveness12
Local exposure to refugees changed attitudes to ethnic minorities in the Netherlands12
Trading Stocks Builds Financial Confidence and Compresses the Gender Gap11
A Behavioural Theory of Discrimination in Policing11
Winter is Coming: Early-life Experiences and Politicians’ Decisions11
Social Value of Public Information in Bargaining11
Erratum to Highways, Market Access and Spatial Sorting11
Optimal Interval Division11
The Impact of the WWI Agricultural Boom and Bust on Female Opportunity Cost and Fertility11
The Limitations of Activity-Based Instruction to Improve the Productivity of Schooling11
Technology Adoption, Mortality and Population Dynamics11
The Demand for News: Accuracy Concerns Versus Belief Confirmation Motives10
Measuring the Total Number of US Job Seekers10
Optimal Fiscal Consolidation Under Frictional Financial Markets10
The Dark Side of Transparency: Mission Variety and Industry Equilibrium in Decentralised Public Good Provision10
Populist Persuasion in Electoral Campaigns: Evidence from Bryan's Unique Whistle-Stop Tour10
Mineral Resources and the Salience of Ethnic Identities10
Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences10
Differences Attract: An Experimental Study of Focusing in Economic Choice10
Pledge-and-Review Bargaining: from Kyoto to Paris9
Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to the Fox News Channel9
Parental Leave, Worker Substitutability, and Firms’ Employment9
Countering Moral Hazard in Higher Education: The Role of Performance Incentives in Need-Based Grants*9
The Political Scar of Epidemics9
The Efficiency Costs of Dividend Taxation with Managerial Firms*9
Destructive Behaviour, Judgement, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress9
The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation9
Must Agreements Be Kept? Residential Leases During Covid-19*8
Lives or Livelihoods? Perceived Trade-Offs and Policy Views8
Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the US8
Major Reforms in Electricity Pricing: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment8
Judicial Capture8
Expectations, Wage Hikes and Worker Voice8
Strategic Campaign Communication: Evidence from 30,000 Candidate Manifestos8
Run-off Elections in the Laboratory8
Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College8
Economic Distress and Children’s Mental Health: Evidence from the Brazilian High-Risk Cohort Study for Mental Conditions8
Accommodating the Rise in Urbanisation: Are New Towns a Good Solution?8
Temperature’s Toll on Decision-Making8
Demand, Supply And Markup Fluctuations7
Do Celebrity Endorsements Matter? A Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia7
Financial Frictions and Firm Informality: A General Equilibrium Perspective7
Disability and risk preferences: Experimental and survey evidence from Vietnam7
Spatial Polarisation*7
Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Human Capital: Evidence from a Survey Experiment7
Trust and State Effectiveness: The Political Economy of Compliance7
Political Language in Economics7
Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies7
Strategic Conformity or Anti-Conformity to Avoid Punishment and Attract Reward7
Expectation Formation with Correlated Variables7
The Role of Mindset in Education : A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Disadvantaged Schools7
A Nudge to Quit? The Effect of a Change in Pension Information on Annuitisation, Labour Supply and Retirement Choices Among Older Workers7
The Heterogeneous Tax Pass-Through Under Different Vertical Relationships6
Ethnic Violence Across Space6
Beyond Short-Term Learning Gains: the Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia After Three Years6
Echo Chambers: Social Learning under Unobserved Heterogeneity6
How Polarised are Citizens? Measuring Ideology from the Ground up6
What to Blame? Self-Serving Attribution Bias with Multi-Dimensional Uncertainty6
Parental Responses to Information about School Quality: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data6
The Births, Lives and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia6
Flattening of the Phillips Curve with State-Dependent Prices and Wages6
Economic Preferences and Personality Traits Among Finance Professionals and the General Population5
Investor Sentiment, Sovereign Debt Mispricing, and Economic Outcomes5
Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns5
Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention5
The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns Across France5
Voter Mobilisation and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya5
Civicness Drain*5
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights and the Persistence in Britain'S Industrialisation5
The Road to Crime: An Unintended Consequence of the Interstate Highway System5
Toward An Understanding of the Economics of Apologies: Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment5
Multi-Dimensional Skills and Gender Differences in STEM Majors5
Bundling Genetic and Financial Technologies for More Resilient and Productive Small-Scale Farmers in Africa5
Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity5
Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia5
Clean Energy Access: Gender Disparity, Health and Labour Supply5
Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants5
Macroevolutionary Origins of Comparative Development5
The Null Result Penalty4
Corrupted by Algorithms? How AI-generated and Human-written Advice Shape (Dis)honesty4
Emotion and Reason in Political Language4
Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility4
The Cultural Roots of Firm Entry, Exit and Growth4
Correction to: Sentiments and Economic Activity: Evidence from US States4
Assessing Macroeconomic Tail Risk4
Urbanisation and the Onset of Modern Economic Growth4
Steering Fallible Consumers4
Robot Imports and Firm-Level Outcomes4
Creativity and Corporate Culture*4
Air Pollution and Manufacturing Firm Productivity: Nationwide Estimates for China4
Discontinuities in the Age-Victimisation Profile and the Determinants of Victimisation4
Estimating the Cost of Capital and the Profit Share4
Time of Day and High-Stake Cognitive Assessments4
A Matching Model of Co-Residence with a Family Network: Empirical Evidence from China4
The Virtuous Cycle of Agreement4
Refugee Relocation: A Mechanism Design Approach4
Political Competition and State Capacity: Evidence from a Land Allocation Program in Mexico4
Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market4
Cyclical Government Spending: Theory and Empirics4
The Effect of Concealed-Carry and Handgun Restrictions on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from the Sullivan Act of 19114
Tax Revenues in Low-Income Countries4
Wage Risk and the Skill Premium3
Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment3
Productivity Growth and Workers’ Job Transitions: Evidence from Census Microdata3
Solar Eclipses and the Origins of Critical Thinking and Complexity3
Political Risk, Populism and the Economy3
Expressway to Votes: Infrastructure Projects and Voter Persuasion3
Corruption and Firm Growth: Evidence from around the World3
Mental Capabilities, Heterogeneous Trading Behaviour and Performance in an Experimental Asset Market3
Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants’ Economic Success3
Managerial Leadership, Truth-Telling, and Efficient Coordination3
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions using Direct Evidence on Sharing3
Overconfidence and Correlated Information Structures3
A Subsidy That is Inversely Related to the Product Price3
Non-Linearities, State-Dependent Prices and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy3
Trade-Offs of Attending Better Schools: Achievement, Self-Perceptions and Educational Trajectories3
Winners and Losers: the Distributional Effects of the French Feebate on the Automobile Market3
Does External Monitoring from the Government Improve the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises?3
Time Preferences Across Language Groups: Evidence on Intertemporal Choices from the Swiss Language Border3
Price-Cost Margins, Fixed Costs and Excess Profits3
Who Sells During a Crash? Evidence from Tax Return Data on Daily Sales of Stock3
Monopsony, Job Tasks and Labour Market Concentration3
Identification and Parametric Estimation of Empirical Dynamic Marriage Matching Models3
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises3
Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking3
Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India3
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus at-will Contracts3
Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap3
Social Class and (Un)Ethical Behaviour: Causal and Correlational Evidence3
Political Selection and Economic Policy3
Unemployment and Development3
Price Floors and Externality Correction*3
Iterated Admissibility does not Refine Extensive-form Rationalizability3
The Power of Hydroelectric Dams: Historical Evidence from the United States over the Twentieth Century3
Distorted Technology Adoption2
Economic Shocks and Populism2
Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Composition: Understanding Match Effects in the Classroom2
Subsidising the spread of COVID-19: Evidence from the UK’S Eat-Out-to-Help-Out Scheme*2
Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Can Productive Safety Nets Help Households Manage Climatic Variability?2
Borrowing Constraints and Demand for Remedial Education: Evidence from Tanzania2
Women Leaving the Playpen: the Emancipating Role of Female Suffrage2
Obesity, Poverty and Public Policy2
The Long-Run Effects of Peers on Mental Health2
Market-Based Monetary Policy Uncertainty2
Judicial Quality, Input Customisation, and Trade Margins: The Role of Product Quality2
Correction to: Disability and risk preferences Experimental and survey evidence from Vietnam2
Threat of Sabotage as a Driver of Collective Action2
Surveillance and Self-Control2
Vaccines and Verdicts: How Smallpox Court Decisions Affect Anti-Vaccine Discourse and Mortality2
Gender and Leadership in Organisations: the Threat of Backlash2
Fertility and Modernity2
Valuing Life as an Asset, as a Statistic and at Gunpoint2
The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labour2
Interactions in Public Policies: Spousal Responses and Program Spillovers of Welfare Reforms2
Discrimination Between Religious and Non-Religious Groups: Evidence from Marking High-Stakes Exams2
Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,153 Subnational Regions2
The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency2
Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap2
Commuting for Crime2
Moral Hazard Versus Liquidity and the Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits2
Mobility Responses to Special Tax Regimes for the Super-Rich: Evidence from Switzerland2
Real Effects of Financial Distress: The Role of Heterogeneity2
Unpacking Social Capital2
Is Digital Credit Filling a Hole or Digging a Hole? Evidence from Malawi2
Earnings Responses to Even Higher Taxes2
Highways, Market Access and Spatial Sorting2
Production Networks And International Fiscal Spillovers2
Immigration, Female Labour Supply and Local Cultural Norms2
Gender Differences in Math Tests: the Role of Time Pressure2
p-Hacking, Data type and Data-Sharing Policy2
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico2
The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match2
Market Participation and Moral Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence from Greenland2
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