Journal of Political Economy

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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets1077
Killer Acquisitions228
Willingness to Pay for Clean Air: Evidence from Air Purifier Markets in China216
On the Identification of Gross Output Production Functions170
The Impact of Temperature on Productivity and Labor Supply: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing167
Asset Pricing with Omitted Factors164
The Housing Boom and Bust: Model Meets Evidence162
International Currencies and Capital Allocation148
Cutthroat Capitalism versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking than Scandinavians?144
Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949–2016142
Macroeconomic Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks134
Gender Differences in Recognition for Group Work129
Monetary Policy Communications and Their Effects on Household Inflation Expectations124
Exposure to Grocery Prices and Inflation Expectations124
Exit versus Voice105
Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early-Childhood Program96
Credit Market Disruptions and Liquidity Spillover Effects in the Supply Chain92
Exchange Rate Disconnect in General Equilibrium90
The Tail That Wags the Economy: Beliefs and Persistent Stagnation80
Two Blades of Grass: The Impact of the Green Revolution79
Political Cycles and Stock Returns78
When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct72
Long-Term-Care Utility and Late-in-Life Saving72
The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa71
Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture69
Moral Values and Voting69
The Effect of Early-Childhood Education on Social Preferences69
Segmentation versus Agglomeration: Competition between Platforms with Competitive Sellers67
What Goes Up May Not Come Down: Asymmetric Incidence of Value-Added Taxes66
An Equilibrium Model of the Market for Bitcoin Mining66
Firm Volatility in Granular Networks64
Why Are Older Women Missing in India? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty62
Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis61
East-Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting61
Socioeconomic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences59
How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons59
How Much Should We Trust the Dictator’s GDP Growth Estimates?59
People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis58
Domestic Trade Frictions and Agriculture57
Granular Comparative Advantage54
Privacy as a Public Good: A Case for Electronic Cash52
Trust in State and Nonstate Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan51
Liquidity Rules and Credit Booms49
Directed Technical Change as a Response to Natural Resource Scarcity49
Parent-Child Information Frictions and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Field Experiment49
Turning Up the Heat: The Discouraging Effect of Competition in Contests48
How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption47
Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size46
Central Bank Digital Currency: Welfare and Policy Implications46
A Random Attention Model46
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-Wide Experiments in Belgium46
Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?44
Persuading the Principal to Wait44
The Effects of Banking Competition on Growth and Financial Stability: Evidence from the National Banking Era43
Human Capital Investments and Expectations about Career and Family43
Ex Ante Returns and Occupational Choice42
Motivated False Memory41
Time Will Tell: Recovering Preferences When Choices Are Noisy40
Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income40
Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives39
Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from “Aryanizations” in Nazi Germany39
Information Aversion39
Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States39
Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey38
Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity38
Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement38
Rationally Inattentive Behavior: Characterizing and Generalizing Shannon Entropy37
The Impact of Peer Personality on Academic Achievement37
Understanding How Low Levels of Early Lead Exposure Affect Children’s Life Trajectories36
Difference-in-Differences Hedonics36
A Model of Fickle Capital Flows and Retrenchment36
The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?36
Cheap Trade Credit and Competition in Downstream Markets36
Copyrights and Creativity: Evidence from Italian Opera in the Napoleonic Age36
Trade, Structural Transformation, and Development: Evidence from Argentina 1869–191435
Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts35
Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men34
Bank Market Power and Central Bank Digital Currency: Theory and Quantitative Assessment34
Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles34
The First 2,000 Days and Child Skills33
The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach32
A/B Testing with Fat Tails32
Debates: Voting and Expenditure Responses to Political Communication31
Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms31
Occupational Licensing and Maternal Health: Evidence from Early Midwifery Laws31
Technology and Time Inconsistency30
The Effects of Fluoride in Drinking Water30
Curbing Shocks to Corporate Liquidity: The Role of Trade Credit30
Supervisors and Performance Management Systems29
Experience of Communal Conflicts and Intergroup Lending29
Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters28
Persuasion via Weak Institutions28
Personalized Pricing and Consumer Welfare28
The Transmission of Monetary Policy under the Microscope28
Queens28
Improving Business Practices and the Boundary of the Entrepreneur: A Randomized Experiment Comparing Training, Consulting, Insourcing, and Outsourcing27
On Bunching and Identification of the Taxable Income Elasticity27
Sorting or Steering: The Effects of Housing Discrimination on Neighborhood Choice27
Self-Fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US Life Insurance Industry26
How Do Doctors Respond to Incentives? Unintended Consequences of Paying Doctors to Reduce Costs26
The Use of Regression Statistics to Analyze Imperfect Pricing Policies25
Pass-Through as an Economic Tool: On Exogenous Competition, Social Incidence, and Price Discrimination25
When Fair Isn’t Fair: Understanding Choice Reversals Involving Social Preferences24
Detecting Large-Scale Collusion in Procurement Auctions23
The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France23
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: A Comment23
Equilibrium Labor Market Search and Health Insurance Reform23
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices23
Market Structure and Competition in Airline Markets22
Sequential Auctions with Synergy and Affiliation across Auctions22
How Does Incarceration Affect Reoffending? Estimating the Dose-Response Function22
Securing Property Rights21
The Path to College Education: The Role of Math and Verbal Skills21
The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries20
Common Values, Unobserved Heterogeneity, and Endogenous Entry in US Offshore Oil Lease Auctions20
Subsidy Design in Privately Provided Social Insurance: Lessons from Medicare Part D20
How Costly Are Markups?20
Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models19
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions19
Commitment versus Flexibility with Costly Verification19
On the Direction of Innovation18
Breaking the Cycle? Intergenerational Effects of an Antipoverty Program in Early Childhood18
Reevaluating the Long-Term Impact of In Utero Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic18
Shocks and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Electronic Payment Systems18
Financial Development and International Trade18
Can Health Insurance Competition Work? Evidence from Medicare Advantage18
The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training within Industry Program17
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer17
Recent Trends in US Income Distributions in Tax Record Data Using More Comprehensive Measures of Income Including Real Accrued Capital Gains17
Patent Publication and Innovation17
Impure Impact Giving: Theory and Evidence17
Local Distortions in Parental Beliefs over Child Skill17
Upstream, Downstream: Diffusion and Impacts of the Universal Product Code16
What Happened to US Business Dynamism?16
Revealed-Preference Analysis with Framing Effects16
A Theory of Auctions with Endogenous Valuations16
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Reasoning16
Taking Orders and Taking Notes: Dealer Information Sharing in Treasury Auctions16
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador16
Demand for Online News under Government Control: Evidence from Russia16
Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence16
Dynamic Tournament Design: Evidence from Prediction Contests16
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: A Response15
Search, Liquidity, and Retention: Screening Multidimensional Private Information15
Multiproduct Intermediaries15
Why Does Education Reduce Crime?15
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution15
Do Environmental Markets Improve on Open Access? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights14
Signaling in Online Credit Markets14
Identification in Auction Models with Interdependent Costs14
Preference Discovery in University Admissions: The Case for Dynamic Multioffer Mechanisms14
Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession14
Dissecting the Equity Premium14
Declining Search Frictions, Unemployment, and Growth14
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks13
Steps of Reasoning in Children and Adolescents13
The Economic Effects of Long-Term Climate Change: Evidence from the Little Ice Age13
Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long-Run Evidence from Tanzania13
Improving College Instruction through Incentives13
Optimal Deposit Insurance13
Sharp Bounds and Testability of a Roy Model of STEM Major Choices13
Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis13
The Mortgage Rate Conundrum13
Learning before Trading: On the Inefficiency of Ignoring Free Information13
Bail-Ins and Bailouts: Incentives, Connectivity, and Systemic Stability13
Consumption and Income Inequality in the United States since the 1960s13
Rationing the Commons13
Search, Information, and Prices13
Ordinary Least Squares Estimation of the Intrahousehold Distribution of Expenditure12
Understanding Disparities in Punishment: Regulator Preferences and Expertise12
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India12
Cognitive Skills, Strategic Sophistication, and Life Outcomes12
An Investment-and-Marriage Model with Differential Fecundity: On the College Gender Gap11
The Finance Uncertainty Multiplier11
The Comparative Advantage of Firms11
Estimating an Equilibrium Model of Horizontal Competition in Education11
Collusion in Markets with Syndication11
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics11
Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid11
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country10
Games of Love and Hate10
Bidding and Drilling under Uncertainty: An Empirical Analysis of Contingent Payment Auctions10
Vertical Contracts with Endogenous Product Selection: An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Allowance Contracts10
Cooperation and Community Responsibility10
Feasible Joint Posterior Beliefs10
Startups and Upstarts: Disadvantageous Information in R&D9
Identification of Hedonic Equilibrium and Nonseparable Simultaneous Equations9
The Multidimensional Impact of Teachers on Students9
Are Bigger Banks Better? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany9
Women and Power: Unpopular, Unwilling, or Held Back? A Comment9
Ordinal Centrality9
Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity9
The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children9
Intermediation and Competition in Search Markets: An Empirical Case Study9
Monopoly Pricing, Optimal Randomization, and Resale9
Mismatch Cycles9
The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice9
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions9
Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy8
Hysteresis and the Welfare Effect of Corrective Policies: Theory and Evidence from an Energy-Saving Program8
Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises, Revisited8
Optimal Fiscal Policy without Commitment: Revisiting Lucas-Stokey8
Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior8
Partial Default8
Taxation under Learning by Doing8
Dual Decision Processes: Retrieving Preferences When Some Choices Are Automatic8
The Strategy and Technology of Conflict8
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes8
Systematic Bias in the Progress of Research8
Trade, Technology, and Agricultural Productivity8
Equilibrium Trade in Automobiles8
Sources of Wage Growth8
Optimal Cooperative Taxation in the Global Economy7
Multidimensional Sorting under Random Search7
Stochastic Dominance under Independent Noise7
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets7
Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks7
The Microgeography of Housing Supply7
A Market-Based Solution for Fire Sales and Other Pecuniary Externalities7
When Parents Decide: Gender Differences in Competitiveness7
Within-Firm Productivity Dispersion: Estimates and Implications7
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk7
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 14507
The Conservation Multiplier6
Communication and Community Enforcement6
Behavioral Foundations of Nested Stochastic Choice and Nested Logit6
The Economic Structure of International Trade-in-Services Agreements6
Determinacy without the Taylor Principle6
Race, Representation, and Local Governments in the US South: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act6
Equilibrium Bid-Price Dispersion6
Income Inequality in the United States: Using Tax Data to Measure Long-Term Trends5
Coalition Formation in Legislative Bargaining5
Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas5
Asset Classes5
Non-Bayesian Persuasion5
Supply and Demand in a Two-Sector Matching Model5
Designing Incentives for Heterogeneous Researchers5
Progressive Random Choice5
An Experimental Investigation of Price Dispersion and Cycles5
US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting5
Piercing through Opacity: Relationships and Credit Card Lending to Consumers and Small Businesses during Normal Times and the COVID-19 Crisis4
Pareto-Improving Segmentation of Multiproduct Markets4
Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency4
Asset Safety versus Asset Liquidity4
The Equilibrium Existence Duality4
Welfare Analysis with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences4
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China4
Dynamic Bank Expansion: Spatial Growth, Financial Access, and Inequality4
Social Networks with Unobserved Links4
Centralizing Over-the-Counter Markets?4
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