OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Quarterly Journal of Economics is 15. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing	818
The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services	335
Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline	252
Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the United States	182
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs	178
Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and Politics in China	177
Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits	157
Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence	140
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions	128
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era	123
How do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates	113
Price Discrimination by Negotiation: a Field Experiment in Retail Electricity	109
Violence against Women at Work	99
Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains	97
Discrimination in Multiphase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection	97
Trading Nontradables: The Implications of Europe’s Job-Posting Policy	96
Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs	95
Logs with Zeros? Some Problems and Solutions	86
Generative AI at Work	86
Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980-2019	82
The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats	81
A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	80
Worker Beliefs About Outside Options	79
Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets	76
Sovereign Bonds Since Waterloo	66

Welfare and Output With Income Effects and Taste Shocks	65
Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization	63
Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory	59
Marginal Effects of Merit Aid for Low-Income Students	59
Eviction and Poverty in American Cities	57
The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States	56
A Fiscal Theory of Persistent Inflation	53
Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery	49
Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market	49
Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field	48
The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany	48
The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships	47
Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle	45
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record	44
Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search, and Efficiency	43
Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations	43
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention	42
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay	40
The Fractured-Land Hypothesis	40
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education	40
Hours and Wages	40
Misdemeanor Prosecution	40
Efficient Coding and Risky Choice	38
Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence From U.S. Bans on Cousin Marriage	38
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data	38
Using Divide-and-Conquer to Improve Tax Collection	38
Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach	38
The Geography of Unemployment	38
Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers	36
Corruption in Customs	36
Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement	36
Multinational Banks and Financial Stability	36
Costs of Financing U.S. Federal Debt Under a Gold Standard: 1791-1933	35
Predictable Effects of Visual Salience in Experimental Decisions and Games	34
Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice	34
A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates	33
Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings	33
Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice	32
Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies	30
The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right	30
Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments	28
Seeing What is Representative	28
The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice	28
Economic Agents as Imperfect Problem Solvers	28
Understanding Tax Policy: How do People Reason?	27
The Diffusion of New Technologies	27
Let the Worst One Fail: A Credible Solution to the Too-Big-To-Fail Conundrum	25
Global Firms in Large Devaluations	25
A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of Sudden Inflations	24
When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870	24

Correlation Made Simple: Applications to Salience and Regret Theory	24
The Political Economics of Green Transitions	24
From Public Labs to Private Firms: Magnitude and Channels of Local R&D Spillovers	23
Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Run Effects of Bank Failures	23
The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians	23
New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During World War II	23
An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization	22
The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government Under Woodrow Wilson	22
Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy	22
The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions	22
The Evolutionary Stability of Moral Foundations	22
Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Labor Market Adjustment	21
The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation	20
Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers	19
Competing Models	18
Perceptions About Monetary Policy	17
Origins of the Opioid Crisis and its Enduring Impacts	16
Does Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture	16
New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?	16
The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Racial Desegregation Program: Gautreaux	16
Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information	16
Memory and Probability	15
The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market	15
Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments	15
The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children	15
Justifying Dissent	15
Diagnosing Physician Error: A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care	15
Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials	15
Identity, Beliefs, and Political Conflict	15
The Evolution of Market Power in the U.S. Automobile Industry	15