Journal of Political Economy

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Political Economy is 16. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers344
Recent Referees292
Front Matter185
Recent Referees180
A Study of the Microdynamics of Early-Childhood Learning163
Distribution Regression with Sample Selection and UK Wage Decomposition140
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals129
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century127
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain123
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence121
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations115
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets110
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards107
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China104
Recent Referees95
Front Matter95
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result92
Index to Volume 13390
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality81
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions79
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction78
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity76
Front Matter70
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk69
US Public Debt and Safe Asset Market Power66
Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations65
JPE Turnaround Times64
Front Matter61
Front Matter57
Erratum: Self-Control at Work55
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals53
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks53
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions53
The Causal Effects of Youth Cigarette Addiction and Education53
Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline52
Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies49
Social Networks with Unobserved Links47
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence46
JPE Turnaround Times46
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: A Response44
Recent Referees42
Recent Referees42
Front Matter42
Back Cover41
Front Matter40
Front Matter40
JPE Turnaround Times39
Robert Lucas’s Models of Firm Size Distributions and Investment38
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies37
Sleep: Educational Impact and Habit Formation36
Progressive Random Choice35
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel35
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited35
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice35
Vacancy Chains35
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams34
Reputation Effects under Short Memories34
Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning33
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer33
Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications33
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution32
Recent Referees32
Front Matter32
Front Matter31
Recent Referees31
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees30
The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility30
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Quasi Nonergodicity, and Wealth Inequality30
Booms, Busts, and Mismatch in Capital Markets: Evidence from the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry29
The Comparative Advantage of Firms29
Front Matter28
JPE Turnaround Times28
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks28
Front Matter27
Front Matter27
Front Matter27
Health Shocks, Health Insurance, Human Capital, and the Dynamics of Earnings and Health26
Gender, Confidence, and the Mismeasure of Intelligence, Competitiveness, and Literacy26
Back Cover26
Financial Product Design in Decentralized Markets25
US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting24
Recent Referees24
Optimal Queue Design24
When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct23
JPE Turnaround Times22
The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications22
Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency? Evidence from Power Plants22
JPE Turnaround Times22
Index to Volume 13022
Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance21
Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations21
Parenting with Patience: Parental Incentives and Child Development21
The Gas Trap: Outcompeting Coal vs. Renewables21
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in US History20
Recent Referees20
Competition and Information Leakage20
Front Matter20
JPE Turnaround Times19
Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises with Long Stagnations19
Recent Referees19
Recent Referees19
Optimal Information Design of Online Marketplaces with Return Rights19
JPE Turnaround Times18
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India18
Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics, and the Nonneutrality of Money18
Factor Models for Conditional Asset Pricing18
Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment18
JPE Turnaround Times18
JPE Turnaround Times18
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices18
Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends18
Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles18
Preference Discovery in University Admissions: The Case for Dynamic Multioffer Mechanisms18
The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy18
Persuasion with Multiple Actions18
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics18
Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency18
Opening Up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of Reforms to US Defense Research18
No Kin in the Game: Moral Hazard and War in the US Congress18
JPE Turnaround Times18
Front Matter17
Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany17
Recent Referees17
Recent Referees17
The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children16
The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities16
On the Nature of Entrepreneurship16
The Value of Ratings: Evidence from Their Introduction in Securities Markets16
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes16
The Morality of Markets16
JPE Turnaround Times16
The Zero-Beta Interest Rate16
Making a Swap:  Network Formation with Increasing Marginal Costs16
Borda’s Rule and Arrow’s Independence Condition16
Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach16
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