OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Oxford Economic Papers-New Series 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
Performance-based research funding and gender diversity in research: evidence from UK universities	23
Economic impact of large earthquakes: lessons from residential property values	19
Firms’ innovation and university cooperation. New evidence from a survey of Italian firms	19
Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban Sub-Saharan Africa?	17
A note on the unemployment volatility puzzle	17
The degeneration of workers’ cooperatives under endogenous membership in mixed oligopoly	17
Do the rich save more? Evidence from Brazil	13
Banks defy gravity in tax havens	13
A pecking order of household finance	11
Symbolic incentives and the recruitment of volunteers for citizen science projects	11
Trading permits and informal entrepreneurship: evidence from South Africa	10
Exporters under foreign heat	10
Pandemic shocks and macroprudential policy	10
Environmental regulation, taxes, and activism	9
Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply	9
The effect of capacity constraints on the slope of the Phillips curve	9
Household durable goods and child health in China	8
Wages of UK immigrant men across generations: who catches up?	8
Effectiveness of military spending in reducing the intensity of armed conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa	8
The effect of task switching on productivity: evidence from major league baseball pitchers	7
Performance pay and work hours: US survey evidence	7
The global gender gap in labour income	7
Effects of the minimum wage on the nonprofit sector	7
Mobilizing women voters: experimental evidence from Pakistan	7
Credit, banking fragility, and economic performance	7

Flexible contracts and ethnic economic inequalities across gender during the UK’s COVID-19 recession	7
Institutional ‘gaming’ involving staff turnover during recent research evaluation exercises by UK Russell Group universities	7
Revisiting the effect of democracy on population health	7
Job search, unemployment protection, and informal work	6
Automation and taxation	6
Passing the buck!—how credible are self-reported measures of confidence in public institutions?	6
Wage inequality and union membership at the establishment level: An econometric study using Norwegian data	6
How difficult is it to interpret subjective well-being questions during crises? Evidence from the onset of conflict in Yemen	6
Worker flows and wage dynamics: estimating wage growth without composition effects	6
Exchange rates and binary political events	5
Optimal taxation under status consumption and preferences for equality	5
It’s me again… Ask avoidance and the dynamics of charitable giving	5
Identity, immigration, and subjective well-being: why are natives so sharply divided on immigration issues?	5
Structural change, labour reallocation, and productivity growth in post-reform China	5
Evaluating fiscal supports on the public–private partnerships: a hidden risk for contract survival	5
Can prosocial incentives and self-chosen goals improve performance? An online real-effort experiment	5
Performance-related pay and sorting into stress	5
Strategic behaviours in a labour market with mobility-restricting contractual provisions: evidence from the National Hockey League	5
The role of student effort on performance in PISA: revisiting the gender gap in achievement	5
What drives overhead aversion in charity? Evidence from field-experimental variation in fundraising costs	5
Social progress around the world: trends and convergence	4
Inflation-overshooting commitment: an analysis using a macroeconomic model	4
Evidence of self-selection and spatial mismatch in interregional migration: the case of Italy	4
Do US top executives benefit from market concentration?	4
Stress, effort, and incentives at work	4
Effects of bargaining legislation on worker and management reconciliation decisions—a bivariate duration analysis	4
On the use of current and forward-looking data in monetary policy: a behavioural macroeconomic approach	4
Bernanke and Kindleberger on financial crises, 1978–2003	4
Inequality of opportunity and life satisfaction	4
Industrial reform policies: does marketization enhance productivity more than privatization?	4
Why do the earnings of male and female graduates diverge? The roles of field of study, motherhood, and job dynamics	4
Climate change, strict Pareto improvements in welfare and multilateral financial transfers	3
Distributional effect of import shocks on British local labour markets	3
Firm-level financial frictions and aggregate allocative efficiency	3
How Uzawa differs from Lucas	3
Long-term relatedness and income distribution: understanding the deep roots of inequality	3
Correction to: Do children increase the likelihood of homeownership? Evidence from a sample with twins	3
Politicians, institutional incentives, and citizen welfare: evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India	3
Protests, long-term preferences, and populism: Evidence from 1968 in Europe	3
Work experience, information revelation, and study effort	3
Policing and crime: dynamic panel evidence from California	3
Labor market reforms and unemployment fluctuations	3
Reply to Edwards and Ogilvie: ‘Did the Black Death Cause Economic Development by “Inventing” Fertility Restriction’	3
The effect of earned endowments and tangible money on charitable giving	3
Concentration of income and human development: the role of the middle class	3
International co-movements of inflation, 1851–1913	3
The role of social effects in shaping beliefs about the economy	3
Human capital and welfare	3
The meritocratic illusion: inequality and the cognitive basis of redistribution	3
Impact of socioeconomic determinants on the speed of epidemic diseases: a comparative analysis	2

Optimal public debt indexation in advanced economies	2
Concentration and mergers: evidence from Italian labor markets	2
The gender pay gap in medicine: evidence from Britain	2
Banking structural reforms and top income shares: regulate or deregulate?	2
Immigrant overeducation across two generations: the role of gender and part-time work	2
Welfare-maximizing patent length in a dynamic general equilibrium model	2
Public sector wage compression and wage inequality: gender and geographic heterogeneity	2
Marital sorting, family output, and wealth inequality	2
Social capital and financial access: evidence from a meta-analysis	2
A year of COVID: the evolution of labour market and financial inequalities through the crisis	2
Monopolistic competition under frictional entries	2
Do you really want to share everything? The well-being of work-linked couples	2
Habit formation and trade unions	2
Increasing inequalities in longevity among Italian workers	2
Firm dynamics by age and size classes and the choice of size measure	2
The college wage premium in the UK: decline and fall?	2
Population sorting and human capital accumulation	2
Eradicating female genital cutting: implications from political efforts in Burkina Faso	2
Productivity-enhancing reallocation during the Great Recession: evidence from Lithuania	2
Changing gender norms and household resource allocation	2
Conflict as a cause of migration	2
Collusion sustainability with a capacity-constrained firm	2
Simultaneous borrowing and saving in microfinance	2
Trends in effort at work in the UK	2
Identifying literacy and numeracy skill mismatch in OECD countries using the job analysis method	2