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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline	752
The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services	274
Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing	228
Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the United States	168
Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence	167
Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and Politics in China	164
Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits	141
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions	132
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs	115
How do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates	115
Price Discrimination by Negotiation: a Field Experiment in Retail Electricity	107
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era	103
Violence against Women at Work	92
Trading Nontradables: The Implications of Europe’s Job-Posting Policy	92
Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains	92
Generative AI at Work	91
Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs	87
Discrimination in Multiphase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection	85
Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets	80
Logs with Zeros? Some Problems and Solutions	80
A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	77
The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats	72
Sovereign Bonds Since Waterloo	69
Worker Beliefs About Outside Options	68
Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization	67

Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory	60
Welfare and Output With Income Effects and Taste Shocks	59
A Fiscal Theory of Persistent Inflation	55
Marginal Effects of Merit Aid for Low-Income Students	55
The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States	55
Eviction and Poverty in American Cities	54
Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market	53
The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany	47
Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery	46
The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships	44
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record	42
Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle	41
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education	40
Hours and Wages	40
The Fractured-Land Hypothesis	38
Misdemeanor Prosecution	38
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention	38
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay	38
Efficient Coding and Risky Choice	38
The Geography of Unemployment	37
Using Divide-and-Conquer to Improve Tax Collection	37
Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence From U.S. Bans on Cousin Marriage	37
Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search, and Efficiency	37
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data	36
Multinational Banks and Financial Stability	36
Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers	36
Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings	34
Costs of Financing U.S. Federal Debt Under a Gold Standard: 1791-1933	34
Corruption in Customs	34
Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice	34
A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates	33
The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right	33
Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies	33
Predictable Effects of Visual Salience in Experimental Decisions and Games	33
Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice	33
The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice	32
Understanding Tax Policy: How do People Reason?	31
Economic Agents as Imperfect Problem Solvers	29
Seeing What is Representative	28
A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of Sudden Inflations	27
Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments	27
The Diffusion of New Technologies	26
The Political Economics of Green Transitions	26
Let the Worst One Fail: A Credible Solution to the Too-Big-To-Fail Conundrum	26
When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870	25
Global Firms in Large Devaluations	25
The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians	24
Correlation Made Simple: Applications to Salience and Regret Theory	24
New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During World War II	22
Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Run Effects of Bank Failures	21

Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers	21
The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government Under Woodrow Wilson	21
Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy	21
The Evolutionary Stability of Moral Foundations	21
An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization	20
Competing Models	20
The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions	20
The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation	20
Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Labor Market Adjustment	20
Does Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture	19
The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Racial Desegregation Program: Gautreaux	19
Perceptions About Monetary Policy	19
Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information	18
Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials	18
Memory and Probability	18
Identity, Beliefs, and Political Conflict	17
New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?	17
Origins of the Opioid Crisis and its Enduring Impacts	16
The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children	16
Justifying Dissent	15
The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market	15
The Evolution of Market Power in the U.S. Automobile Industry	15
Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement	14
Brahmin Left Versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948–2020	14
Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments	14
Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap	14
The Lifetime Impacts of the New Deal's Youth Employment Program	14
What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.	14