Journal of Political Economy

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Political Economy is 13. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Distribution Regression with Sample Selection and UK Wage Decomposition282
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China247
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain151
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450150
Recent Referees136
Front Matter117
Recent Referees115
Recent Referees110
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence108
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers102
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets97
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations95
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century90
A Study of the Microdynamics of Early Childhood Learning85
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards82
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals82
Recent Referees80
Front Matter77
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality77
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result74
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions74
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity72
Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations71
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction68
Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis68
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk68
Front Matter66
JPE Turnaround Times66
Front Matter63
Demand for Online News under Government Control: Evidence from Russia61
Erratum: Self-Control at Work56
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence55
Social Networks with Unobserved Links52
Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies52
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks51
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals49
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions49
JPE Turnaround Times48
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice47
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: A Response47
Recent Referees46
Front Matter46
Front Matter43
Back Cover43
Recent Referees43
Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications42
Front Matter39
Progressive Random Choice39
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited37
Reputation Effects under Short Memories37
Front Matter36
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel35
JPE Turnaround Times35
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams35
Vacancy Chains35
Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning34
Robert Lucas’s Models of Firm Size Distributions and Investment34
Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size34
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution33
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer33
Front Matter32
Recent Referees31
Recent Referees31
Front Matter31
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Quasi Nonergodicity, and Wealth Inequality30
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks29
The Comparative Advantage of Firms29
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees29
The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility29
JPE Turnaround Times28
US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting28
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years28
Gender, Confidence, and the Mismeasure of Intelligence, Competitiveness and Literacy28
The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications27
Financial Product Design in Decentralized Markets27
Front Matter26
Front Matter26
Front Matter26
How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons25
Front Matter25
When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct25
Back Cover25
Index to Volume 13024
Front Matter23
Recent Referees23
JPE Turnaround Times23
Recent Referees23
JPE Turnaround Times23
Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models23
Recent Referees23
JPE Turnaround Times23
Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance23
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India22
Parenting with Patience: Parental Incentives and Child Development22
Optimal Information Design of Online Marketplaces with Return Rights22
Intermediation and Competition in Search Markets: An Empirical Case Study21
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices21
Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics, and the Nonneutrality of Money21
The Mortgage Rate Conundrum21
Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises with Long Stagnations21
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics21
Competition and Information Leakage20
JPE Turnaround Times20
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History20
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years20
Persuasion with Multiple Actions19
JPE Turnaround Times19
No Kin in the Game: Moral Hazard and War in the US Congress19
Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles18
Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends18
Opening Up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of Reforms to US Defense Research18
Preference Discovery in University Admissions: The Case for Dynamic Multioffer Mechanisms18
Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency18
Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment17
The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy17
Factor Models for Conditional Asset Pricing17
JPE Turnaround Times16
JPE Turnaround Times16
Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior16
Borda’s Rule and Arrow’s Independence Condition16
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes16
Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany16
The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children16
Recent Referees15
The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets15
Front Matter15
The Morality of Markets15
Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach15
Recent Referees15
Front Matter15
The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities15
Multidimensional Sorting under Random Search14
Inferring Trade-Offs in University Admissions: Evidence from Cambridge14
2025 Lucas Prize Announcement14
Addendum14
Estimating an Auction Platform Game with Two-Sided Entry14
Repricing Avalanches14
JPE Turnaround Times14
Front Matter13
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 Experiment13
JPE Turnaround Times13
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country13
Recent Referees13
Attraction versus Persuasion: Information Provision in Search Markets13
JPE Turnaround Times13
Exorbitant Privilege Gained and Lost: Fiscal Implications13
Recent Referees13
(Near-)Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities13
Bail-Ins and Bailouts: Incentives, Connectivity, and Systemic Stability13
JPE Turnaround Times13
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