OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Political Economy 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals	246
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations	220
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century	171
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450	143
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain	132
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards	123
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers	122
Back Cover	100
Recent Referees	99
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence	97
Recent Referees	96
Front Matter	96
Recent Referees	96
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China	87
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets	83
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result	82
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction	80
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions	80
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk	79
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality	76
Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations	73
Front Matter	71
Recent Referees	70
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity	66
Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis	65

JPE Turnaround Times	64
Erratum: Self-Control at Work	62
Social Networks with Unobserved Links	61
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals	60
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks	57
Demand for Online News under Government Control: Evidence from Russia	57
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence	57
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions	56
Front Matter	55
Front Matter	54
JPE Turnaround Times	52
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel	51
Reputation Effects under Short Memories	50
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited	49
Progressive Random Choice	48
Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications	46
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams	44
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: A Response	44
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer	43
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice	43
Front Matter	42
Recent Referees	41
Front Matter	40
Vacancy Chains	40
Recent Referees	40
Back Cover	40
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution	39
Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size	37
Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning	36
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks	35
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Quasi Nonergodicity, and Wealth Inequality	35
The Comparative Advantage of Firms	35
The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility	34
Recent Referees	33
Front Matter	32
Recent Referees	31
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees	31
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	30
Financial Product Design in Decentralized Markets	30
Front Matter	30
The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications	30
JPE Turnaround Times	30
Back Cover	29
Back Cover	29
US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting	29
Front Matter	28
Front Matter	28
How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons	27
Front Matter	27
JPE Turnaround Times	27

When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct	27
JPE Turnaround Times	26
JPE Turnaround Times	26
Index to Volume 130	26
Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics, and the Nonneutrality of Money	25
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics	25
The Mortgage Rate Conundrum	24
Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models	24
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices	24
Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance	24
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India	23
Recent Referees	23
Competition and Information Leakage	23
Search, Information, and Prices	23
Intermediation and Competition in Search Markets: An Empirical Case Study	23
Front Matter	22
Optimal Information Design of Online Marketplaces with Return Rights	22
Recent Referees	21
JPE Turnaround Times	21
Recent Referees	21
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	20
Preference Discovery in University Admissions: The Case for Dynamic Multioffer Mechanisms	20
Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency	20
JPE Turnaround Times	20
No Kin in the Game: Moral Hazard and War in the US Congress	20
Persuasion with Multiple Actions	20
Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment	20
JPE Turnaround Times	19
Factor Models for Conditional Asset Pricing	19
JPE Turnaround Times	19
The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy	19
Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of Reforms to U.S. Defense Research	19
Borda’s Rule and Arrow’s Independence Condition	19
Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends	19
Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles	19
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes	18
Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany	18
On Bunching and Identification of the Taxable Income Elasticity	18
Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior	18
Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach	18
The Morality of Markets	17
Front Matter	17
Recent Referees	17
Recent Referees	17
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	16
The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children	16
Front Matter	16
Bail-Ins and Bailouts: Incentives, Connectivity, and Systemic Stability	15
Repricing Avalanches	15
Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment	15
The Interaction of Bankers’ Asset and Liability Management with Liquidity Concerns	15
Addendum	15
JPE Turnaround Times	15
The Path to College Education: The Role of Math and Verbal Skills	14
2025 Lucas Prize Announcement	14
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country	14
Estimating an Auction Platform Game with Two-Sided Entry	14
A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation: Will the Market Fix the Market?	14
Liquidity Rules and Credit Booms	14
Inferring Trade-Offs in University Admissions: Evidence from Cambridge	14
JPE Turnaround Times	13
Front Matter	13
Attraction versus Persuasion: Information Provision in Search Markets	13
JPE Turnaround Times	13
Recent Referees	13
Multidimensional Sorting under Random Search	13
JPE Turnaround Times	13
Recent Referees	13
(Near-)Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities	13
Recent Referees	12
Colluding against Workers	12
Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms	12
Inattentive Economies	12
Consumer Search, Steering, and Choice Overload	12
Disequilibrium Play in Tennis	12
Efficiency and Foreclosure Effects of Vertical Rebates: Empirical Evidence	12
JPE Turnaround Times	12
Front Matter	11
Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act	11
Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks	11

Front Matter	11
Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility: A Polygenic Score Analysis	11
Back Cover	11
Front Matter	11
Non-Bayesian Persuasion	10
Pareto-Improving Optimal Capital and Labor Taxes	10
Back Cover	10
The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence	10
JPE Turnaround Times	10
Funding of Clinical Trials and Reported Drug Efficacy	10
Designing Incentives for Heterogeneous Researchers	10
Index to Volume 132	10
Front Matter	10
Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France	10
JPE Turnaround Times	9
Prices and Policies in Opioid Markets	9
Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives	9
Mixture Choice Data: Revealing Preferences and Cognition	9
Q-Monetary Transmission	9
Back Cover	9
Rationally Inattentive Behavior: Characterizing and Generalizing Shannon Entropy	9
Panics and Early Warnings	9
JPE Turnaround Times	9
O-Ring Production Networks	9
Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences	8
Back Cover	8
Persuasion via Weak Institutions	8
Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work	8
Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision-Making	8
Recent Referees	8
Front Matter	8
Front Matter	8
Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy	8
Rationing the Commons	8
Cultural Values and Productivity	8
Recent Referees	8
Persuasion and Welfare	8
Learning about the Long Run	8
Information Frictions, Reputation, and Sovereign Spreads	8
Sources of Wage Growth	7
Front Matter	7
Exit versus Voice	7
Pareto-Improving Segmentation of Multiproduct Markets	7
Signaling in Online Credit Markets	7
Front Matter	7
Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India	7
Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics	7
Subversive Conversations	7
JPE Turnaround Times	7
Big G	7
Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India	7
JPE Turnaround Times	6
Asymmetric Information and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets Mexican Data	6
Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity	6
Front Matter	6
Recent Referees	6
Index to Volume 131	6
Front Matter	6
Mr. Keynes Meets the Classics: Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate	6
College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation	6
Front Matter	6
Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions	6
Feasible Joint Posterior Beliefs	6
Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms	6
Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets: A Comment	5
Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure	5
Back Cover	5
Unobserved Inputs in Household Production	5
Changes in marital sorting: Theory and evidence from the US	5
The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross	5
The Effects of Combat Deployments on Veterans’ Outcomes	5
Do Environmental Markets Improve on Open Access? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights	5
Back Cover	5
The Multidimensional Impact of Teachers on Students	5
Growth Off the Rails: Aggregate Productivity Growth in Distorted Economies	5
Improving the Organization of Knowledge in Production by Screening Problems	5
Front Matter	5
Front Matter	5
Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets: A Reply	5
Front Matter	5
JPE Turnaround Times	4
Tax Evasion and Capital Taxation	4
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador: A Comment	4
The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training within Industry Program	4
Recent Referees	4
The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach	4
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador	4
When Parents Decide: Gender Differences in Competitiveness	4
Recent Referees	4
Selective-Memory Equilibrium	4
How Much Should We Trust the Dictator’s GDP Growth Estimates?	4
Optimal Bank Regulation in the Presence of Credit and Run Risk	4
How Costly Are Markups?	4
Recent Referees	4
Back Cover	3