OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Quarterly Journal of Economics is 14. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality	676
The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany	209
Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information	202
Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage	151
The Investment Network, Sectoral Comovement, and the Changing U.S. Business Cycle	151
The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Racial Desegregation Program: Gautreaux	149
A Cognitive View of Policing	145
Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline	136
Improving Management Through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing	118
The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right	118
New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?	104
Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone	101
The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Local Development and Economic Mobility: Evidence from World War II	98
The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services	94
Why do Borrowers Default on Mortgages?	85
How to Sell Hard Information	84
Investing in Infants: the Lasting Effects of Cash Transfers to New Families	82
Origins of the Opioid Crisis and its Enduring Impacts	82
The Health Costs of Cost Sharing	78
Memory and Probability	74
Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing	72
Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials	70
Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery	69
Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from the Field and Lab	66
The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion	66

Identity, Beliefs, and Political Conflict	64
Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market	63
New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018	61
Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits	60
The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships	55
“Something Works” in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program	51
The Mortgage Piggy Bank: Building Wealth Through Amortization	51
Justifying Dissent	51
The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston	50
Dominant Currencies: How Firms Choose Currency Invoicing and Why it Matters	49
Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Payment Reform	48
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs	47
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions	46
Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?	40
Economic Agents as Imperfect Problem Solvers	40
Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and Politics in China	39
Seeing What is Representative	38
Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits	38
Why Do People Stay Poor?	37
The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice	37
Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle	36
Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2018	36
Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill: Evidence from Radiologists	35
Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence	35
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record	35
The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children	35
Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence	33
Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the United States	33
Stories, Statistics, and Memory	32
Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany	32
How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income	32
Machine Learning as a Tool for Hypothesis Generation	31
The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market	31
Understanding Tax Policy: How do People Reason?	31
The Evolution of Market Power in the U.S. Automobile Industry	31
Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments	30
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF REFEREES	29
When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870	29
Would Eliminating Racial Disparities in Motor Vehicle Searches have Efficiency Costs?	28
Global Firms in Large Devaluations	28
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay	26
Hours and Wages	26
Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments	26
The Lifetime Impacts of the New Deal's Youth Employment Program	26
Violence against Women at Work	26
How do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates	26
What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.	26
War, Socialism, and the Rise of Fascism: an Empirical Exploration	26
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education	25
Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education	25

The Fractured-Land Hypothesis	24
The Political Economics of Green Transitions	24
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era	23
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention	22
The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture	22
Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search, and Efficiency	22
The Evolution of Access to Public Accommodations in the United States	22
War Reparations, Structural Change, and Intergenerational Mobility	21
Teacher Labor Market Policy and the Theory of the Second Best	20
The Diffusion of New Technologies	19
A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of Sudden Inflations	18
“Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists:” How Family History Shapes Immigration Policymaking	18
AI-tocracy	17
Does Welfare Prevent Crime? the Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed from Ssi	17
Inference on Winners	17
Diagnosing Physician Error: A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care	17
Correlation Made Simple: Applications to Salience and Regret Theory	17
Price Discrimination by Negotiation: a Field Experiment in Retail Electricity	16
Misdemeanor Prosecution	16
Ownership, Learning, and Beliefs	16
Efficient Coding and Risky Choice	16
Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap	16
Asset Specificity of Nonfinancial Firms	15
Let the Worst One Fail: A Credible Solution to the Too-Big-To-Fail Conundrum	15
Brahmin Left Versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948–2020	14
Top Wealth in America: New Estimates Under Heterogeneous Returns	14