OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Political Economy 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Distribution Regression with Sample Selection and UK Wage Decomposition	282
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China	247
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain	151
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450	150
Recent Referees	136
Front Matter	117
Recent Referees	115
Recent Referees	110
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence	108
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers	102
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets	97
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations	95
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century	90
A Study of the Microdynamics of Early Childhood Learning	85
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards	82
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals	82
Recent Referees	80
Front Matter	77
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality	77
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result	74
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions	74
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity	72
Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations	71
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk	68
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction	68

Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis	68
Front Matter	66
JPE Turnaround Times	66
Front Matter	63
Demand for Online News under Government Control: Evidence from Russia	61
Erratum: Self-Control at Work	56
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence	55
Social Networks with Unobserved Links	52
Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies	52
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks	51
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals	49
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions	49
JPE Turnaround Times	48
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice	47
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: A Response	47
Front Matter	46
Recent Referees	46
Front Matter	43
Back Cover	43
Recent Referees	43
Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications	42
Front Matter	39
Progressive Random Choice	39
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited	37
Reputation Effects under Short Memories	37
Front Matter	36
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel	35
JPE Turnaround Times	35
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams	35
Vacancy Chains	35
Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size	34
Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning	34
Robert Lucas’s Models of Firm Size Distributions and Investment	34
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution	33
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer	33
Front Matter	32
Front Matter	31
Recent Referees	31
Recent Referees	31
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Quasi Nonergodicity, and Wealth Inequality	30
The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility	29
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks	29
The Comparative Advantage of Firms	29
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees	29
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	28
Gender, Confidence, and the Mismeasure of Intelligence, Competitiveness and Literacy	28
JPE Turnaround Times	28
US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting	28
The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications	27
Financial Product Design in Decentralized Markets	27

Front Matter	26
Front Matter	26
Front Matter	26
How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons	25
Front Matter	25
When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct	25
Back Cover	25
Index to Volume 130	24
JPE Turnaround Times	23
Front Matter	23
Recent Referees	23
JPE Turnaround Times	23
Recent Referees	23
JPE Turnaround Times	23
Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance	23
Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models	23
Recent Referees	23
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India	22
Parenting with Patience: Parental Incentives and Child Development	22
Optimal Information Design of Online Marketplaces with Return Rights	22
Intermediation and Competition in Search Markets: An Empirical Case Study	21
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices	21
Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics, and the Nonneutrality of Money	21
The Mortgage Rate Conundrum	21
Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises with Long Stagnations	21
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics	21
Competition and Information Leakage	20
JPE Turnaround Times	20
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History	20
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	20
Persuasion with Multiple Actions	19
JPE Turnaround Times	19
No Kin in the Game: Moral Hazard and War in the US Congress	19
Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles	18
Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends	18
Opening Up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of Reforms to US Defense Research	18
Preference Discovery in University Admissions: The Case for Dynamic Multioffer Mechanisms	18
Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency	18
Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment	17
The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy	17
Factor Models for Conditional Asset Pricing	17
JPE Turnaround Times	16
JPE Turnaround Times	16
Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior	16
Borda’s Rule and Arrow’s Independence Condition	16
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes	16
Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany	16
The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children	16
Recent Referees	15
The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets	15
Front Matter	15
The Morality of Markets	15
Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach	15
Recent Referees	15
Front Matter	15
The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities	15
Multidimensional Sorting under Random Search	14
Inferring Trade-Offs in University Admissions: Evidence from Cambridge	14
2025 Lucas Prize Announcement	14
Addendum	14
Estimating an Auction Platform Game with Two-Sided Entry	14
Repricing Avalanches	14
JPE Turnaround Times	14
Front Matter	13
A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation: Will the Market Fix the Market?	13
Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment	13
JPE Turnaround Times	13
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country	13
Recent Referees	13
Attraction versus Persuasion: Information Provision in Search Markets	13
JPE Turnaround Times	13
Exorbitant Privilege Gained and Lost: Fiscal Implications	13
Recent Referees	13
(Near-)Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities	13
Bail-Ins and Bailouts: Incentives, Connectivity, and Systemic Stability	13
JPE Turnaround Times	13
Inattentive Economies	12
Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks	12
Front Matter	12
Recent Referees	12

Front Matter	12
JPE Turnaround Times	12
Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility: A Polygenic Score Analysis	12
Front Matter	12
Colluding against Workers	11
Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act	11
Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms	11
Effects of Multi-Generational Exposure to Early-Life Advantage: Lessons from a Primate Study	11
Disequilibrium Play in Tennis	11
Non-Bayesian Persuasion	11
Back Cover	11
Efficiency and Foreclosure Effects of Vertical Rebates: Empirical Evidence	11
Recent Referees	11
O-Ring Production Networks	10
Index to Volume 132	10
Rationally Inattentive Behavior: Characterizing and Generalizing Shannon Entropy	10
Front Matter	10
Pareto-Improving Optimal Capital and Labor Taxes	10
JPE Turnaround Times	10
Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives	10
Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France	10
Consumer Search, Steering, and Choice Overload	10
Funding of Clinical Trials and Reported Drug Efficacy	9
Mixture Choice Data: Revealing Preferences and Cognition	9
Recent Referees	9
Recent Referees	9
The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence	9
Robert E. Lucas Jr.: Supreme among Macroeconomists as a Bird Who Saw Further than Others	9
Front Matter	9
Designing Incentives for Heterogeneous Researchers	9
Back Cover	9
JPE Turnaround Times	9
JPE Turnaround Times	9
Back Cover	8
Prices and Policies in Opioid Markets	8
Recent Referees	8
Front Matter	8
Panics and Early Warnings	8
Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-based Time and Goods Investments	8
Q-Monetary Transmission	8
Cultural Values and Productivity	7
Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision-Making	7
Front Matter	7
Learning about the Long Run	7
Persuasion and Welfare	7
Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences	7
Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work	7
Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy	7
Rationing the Commons	7
Big G	7
Recent Referees	7
Persuasion via Weak Institutions	7
Front Matter	7
Exit versus Voice	7
Information Frictions, Reputation, and Sovereign Spreads	7
Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India	7
Indirect Persuasion	7
JPE Turnaround Times	6
When Is the Use of Gaussian-inverse Wishart-Haar Priors Appropriate?	6
Signaling in Online Credit Markets	6
Sources of Wage Growth	6
Pareto-Improving Segmentation of Multiproduct Markets	6
Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India	6
Front Matter	6
Subversive Conversations	6
Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics	6
The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross	5
Asymmetric Information and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets Mexican Data	5
Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms	5
Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions	5
Front Matter	5
Mr. Keynes Meets the Classics: Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate	5
Growth Off the Rails: Aggregate Productivity Growth in Distorted Economies	5
The Multidimensional Impact of Teachers on Students	5
JPE Turnaround Times	5
Recent Referees	5
Front Matter	5
Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity	5
College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation	5
Unobserved Inputs in Household Production	5
Index to Volume 131	5
Changes in Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from the United States	5
Front Matter	5
Efficiency and Redistribution in Environmental Policy: An Equilibrium Analysis of Agricultural Supply Chains	5
The Effect of Incentives in Nonroutine Analytical Team Tasks	4
Recent Referees	4
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador	4
How Much Should We Trust the Dictator’s GDP Growth Estimates?	4
How Does Incarceration Affect Reoffending? Estimating the Dose-Response Function	4
JPE Turnaround Times	4
Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure	4
Tax Evasion and Capital Taxation	4
Recent Referees	4
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador: A Comment	4
Recent Referees	4