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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	309
Electoral Accountability and Control in US Cities	212
Recent Referees	197
Back Cover	193
Optimal Fiscal Policy With Heterogeneous Agents and Capital: Should We Increase or Decrease Public Debt and Capital Taxes?	184
Panics and Early Warnings	152
Recent Referees	123
JPE Turnaround Times	113
The Effect of Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply	105
Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences	97
Recent Referees	90
Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises, Revisited	89
Back Cover	88
JPE Turnaround Times	87
Front Matter	82
Sorting with Teams	79
JPE Turnaround Times	79
Credible Persuasion	78
Back Cover	74
Recent Referees	73
Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance	71
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	71
Recent Referees	67
Collective Brand Reputation	65
Mixture Choice Data: Revealing Preferences and Cognition	65

JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	63
Front Matter	61
JPE Turnaround Times	60
Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics, and the Nonneutrality of Money	60
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	60
Recent Referees	59
Recent Referees	58
Recent Referees	58
Recent Referees	56
Recent Referees	55
Index to Volume 130	52
Back Cover	51
JPE Turnaround Times	51
Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas	51
Central Bank Digital Currency: Welfare and Policy Implications	50
Careers in Firms: The Role of Learning about Ability and Human Capital Acquisition	49
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards	45
Incentives and Performance with Optimal Money Management Contracts	45
The Finance Uncertainty Multiplier	45
Induced Automation Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Patent Data	44
The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?	43
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century	40
Informed Information Design	40
Recent Referees	39
The Value of Information in Competitive Markets: Evidence from Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises	38
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India	36
Information Acquisition, Efficiency, and Nonfundamental Volatility	36
Front Matter	35
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers	34
Front Matter	33
Recent Referees	33
Cultural Values and Productivity	32
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics	32
Search, Information, and Prices	32
Competition and Information Leakage	32
Front Matter	31
The Mortgage Rate Conundrum	30
Intermediation and Competition in Search Markets: An Empirical Case Study	30
Front Matter	29
Prices and Policies in Opioid Markets	29
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets	28
Persuasion via Weak Institutions	28
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450	27
Informationally Simple Incentives	27
Misconduct and Reputation under Imperfect Information	26
Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models	26
The Bank of Amsterdam and the Limits of Fiat Money	26
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-Wide Experiments in Belgium	26
JPE Turnaround Times	26
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices	26

Q-Monetary Transmission	25
Estimating the Technology of Children’s Skill Formation	25
Estimating an Equilibrium Model of Horizontal Competition in Education	25
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations	24
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals	24
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain	23
Asset Pricing with Omitted Factors	23
East-Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting	23
Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts	23
Securing Property Rights	23
Time Will Tell: Recovering Preferences When Choices Are Noisy	22
Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor Market Prospects	22
Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives	22
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China	22
The Economic Effects of Long-Term Climate Change: Evidence from the Little Ice Age	21
Clubs and Networks in Economics Reviewing	21
Front Matter	21
Are Bigger Banks Better? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany	20
Taxation under Learning by Doing	20
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	20
JPE Turnaround Times	19
Front Matter	19
Back Cover	18
Back Cover	18
JPE Turnaround Times	18
Labor Market Conflict and the Decline of the Rust Belt	18
Reserve Prices in Internet Advertising Auctions: A Field Experiment	18
Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends	17
Front Matter	17
The Textbook Case for Industrial Policy: Theory Meets Data	17
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	17
Back Cover	17
JPE Turnaround Times	16
JPE Turnaround Times	16
JPE Turnaround Times	16
Recent Referees	16
Front Matter	16
Recent Referees	16
Soil Heterogeneity, Social Learning, and the Formation of Close-knit Communities	15
No Kin in the Game: Moral Hazard and War in the US Congress	15
Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles	15
Mediated Collusion	15
Front Matter	15
A Market-Based Solution for Fire Sales and Other Pecuniary Externalities	15
Factor Models for Conditional Asset Pricing	14
JPE Turnaround Times	14
Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S.	14
Back Cover	14
Front Matter	13
Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy	13
Vertical Contracts with Endogenous Product Selection: An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Allowance Contracts	13
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality	13
JPE Turnaround Times	13
Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long-Run Evidence from Tanzania	13
Estimating Discrete Games with Many Firms and Many Decisions: An Application to Merger and Product Variety	13
Rationing the Commons	13
Front Matter	13
Persuasion and Welfare	13
Front Matter	13
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk	13
Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work	12
The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy	12
Big G	12
Human Capital Investments and Expectations about Career and Family	12
Interpreting Trends in Intergenerational Mobility	12
Partial Default	12
Information Frictions, Reputation, and Sovereign Spreads	12
Trade, Technology, and Agricultural Productivity	12
Patent Publication and Innovation	11
Recent Referees	11
Systematic Bias in the Progress of Research	11
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction	11
Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis	11
Front Matter	11
Two Blades of Grass: The Impact of the Green Revolution	10
The Welfare Effects of Gender-Inclusive Intellectual Property Creation: Evidence from Books	10
Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment	10
Preference Discovery in University Admissions: The Case for Dynamic Multioffer Mechanisms	10
Determinacy without the Taylor Principle	10
Recent Referees	10

An Investment-and-Marriage Model with Differential Fecundity: On the College Gender Gap	10
Socioeconomic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences	10
Why Do Couples and Singles Save during Retirement? Household Heterogeneity and Its Aggregate Implications	10
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity	10
Difference-in-Differences Hedonics	9
Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations	9
Preschool Quality and Child Development	9
Granular Instrumental Variables	9
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result	8
The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries	8
On the Direction of Innovation	8
The Incredible Taylor Principle: A Comment	8
Labor Market Returns to Personality: A Job Search Approach to Understanding Gender Gaps	8
Why Does Education Reduce Crime?	8
Out of the Darkness and into the Light? Development Effects of Rural Electrification	8
Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision-Making	7
Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency	7
JPE Turnaround Times	7
Hysteresis and the Welfare Effect of Corrective Policies: Theory and Evidence from an Energy-Saving Program	7
Centralizing Over-the-Counter Markets?	7
Consumption and Income Inequality in the United States since the 1960s	7
Persuasion with Multiple Actions	7
Learning about the Long Run	7
Exposure to Grocery Prices and Inflation Expectations	7
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions	7
Exit versus Voice	7
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes	6
Borda’s Rule and Arrow’s Independence Condition	6
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks	6
Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior	6
JPE Turnaround Times	6
Ordinary Least Squares Estimation of the Intrahousehold Distribution of Expenditure	6
Equilibrium Bid-Price Dispersion	6
Beyond the Balance Sheet Model of Banking: Implications for Bank Regulation and Monetary Policy	6
Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption	6
Persuasion for the Long Run	6
Coalition Formation in Legislative Bargaining	6
Demand for Online News under Government Control: Evidence from Russia	6
Estimation of a Life-Cycle Model with Human Capital, Labor Supply, and Retirement	6
Front Matter	5
The Impact of Working-Memory Training on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills	5
Recent Referees	5
Communication and Community Enforcement	5
Recent Referees	5
Recent Referees	5
JPE Turnaround Times	5
Are Tax Cuts Contractionary at the Zero Lower Bound? Evidence from a Century of Data	5
Erratum: Self-Control at Work	5
Sources of Wage Growth	5
Front Matter	5
Front Matter	5
Back Cover	5
Front Matter	5
Front Matter	5
On Bunching and Identification of the Taxable Income Elasticity	5
Recent Referees	5
Recent Referees	5
Social Networks with Unobserved Links	4
The Global Distribution of College Graduate Quality	4
Understanding Cross-Country Differences in Health Status and Expenditures: Health Prices Matter	4
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Reasoning	4
Not a Flying Start after All? A Comment	4
Comparison of Decisions under Unknown Experiments	4
The Equilibrium Existence Duality	4
Erratum: Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador	4
Pareto-Improving Segmentation of Multiproduct Markets	4
The Economic Structure of International Trade-in-Services Agreements	4
Piercing through Opacity: Relationships and Credit Card Lending to Consumers and Small Businesses during Normal Times and the COVID-19 Crisis	4
JPE Turnaround Times	4
The Value of Arbitrage	4
Front Matter	4
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions	4
Risk-Sharing Externalities	4
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals	4
Directed Technical Change as a Response to Natural Resource Scarcity	4
Financial Development and International Trade	3
The Morality of Markets	3
Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey	3
Subversive Conversations	3
Endogenous Liquidity and Capital Reallocation	3
Organizing Modular Production	3
The Stakeholder Corporation and Social Welfare	3
Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany	3
The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children	3
Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence	3
Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India	3
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence	3
Trade Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 Years of US-China Trade	3
JPE Turnaround Times	3
Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach	3
Search, Liquidity, and Retention: Screening Multidimensional Private Information	3
Signaling in Online Credit Markets	3
Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from “Aryanizations” in Nazi Germany	3
Asymmetric Information Sharing in Oligopoly: A Natural Experiment in Retail Gasoline	3
JPE Turnaround Times	3