OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Southern Economic Journal is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The political economy of the COVID‐19 pandemic	75
The contagion externality of a superspreading event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID‐19	45
The political economy of state responses to infectious disease	43
Essential or not? Knowledge problems and COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home orders	42
Externality and COVID‐19	41
Economic freedom, pandemics, and robust political economy	33
Stay‐at‐home orders were issued earlier in economically unfree states	33
Separation of power and expertise: Evidence of the tyranny of experts in Sweden's COVID‐19 responses	30
Battling COVID‐19 with dysfunctional federalism: Lessons from India	24
Amazon Mechanical Turk workers can provide consistent and economically meaningful data	22
Prescription drug monitoring programs, opioid abuse, and crime	17
Economic freedom and migration: A metro area‐level analysis	16
The political economy of drug and alcohol regulation during the COVID‐19 pandemic	16
The Federal Reserve's response to the COVID‐19 contraction: An initial appraisal	16
Heterogeneity, leveling the playing field, and affirmative action in contests	15
Economic lessons for COVID‐19 pandemic policies	14
Validity and reliability of contingent valuation and life satisfaction measures of welfare: An application to the value of national Olympic success	14
Income inequality and housing prices in the very long‐run	13
Does publicly subsidized health insurance affect the birth rate?	12
Wage discrimination in the NBA: Evidence using free agent signings	12
Academic freedom, institutions, and productivity	11
Profit‐enhancing entries in mixed oligopolies	11
Digital trade barriers and export performance: Evidence from China	11
Impacts of state COVID‐19 reopening policy on human mobility and mixing behavior	11
Football transfer fee premiums and Europe's big five	10

Economic outcomes for transgender people and other gender minorities in the United States: First estimates from a nationally representative sample	10
The FDA and the COVID‐19: A political economy perspective	10
Gender gap in tenure and promotion: Evidence from the economics Ph.D. class of 2008	10
Effects of losing public health insurance on preventative care, health, and emergency department use: Evidence from the TennCare disenrollment	10
Educational gender gaps	9
Light pollution, sleep deprivation, and infant health at birth	9
The legacy of representation in medieval Europe for incomes and institutions today	9
Same‐sex marriage laws, LGBT hate crimes, and employment discrimination charges	7
Does aid cause changes in economic freedom?	6
International trade, differentiated goods, and strategic asymmetry	6
Incentivizing provision of collective goods: Allocation rules	6
The effect of mass shootings on the demand for guns	6
Macroeconomic shocks and racial labor market differences	6
Free trade agreements and world obesity	6
Social trust and patterns of growth	6
Culture and son preference: Evidence from immigrants to the United States	6
Estimation of productivity and markups with price dispersion: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing during economic transition	5
Competition between branded and nonbranded firms and its impact on welfare	5
Three prongs for prudent climate policy	5
Promise, trust, and betrayal: Costs of breaching an implicit contract	5
Does government health insurance reduce job lock and job push?	5
The causal effect of free trade agreements on the trade margins: Product‐level evidence from geographically distant partners	4
The utilitarian–maximin social welfare function and anomalies in social choice	4
Deep trade agreements and harmonization of standards	4
The evolution of Hayek's thought on gold and monetary standards	4
Financial development and top income shares in OECD countries	4
What is liberal about Adam Smith's “liberal plan”?	4
Did the affordable care act increase the availability of employer‐sponsored health insurance?	4
The effects of Medicaid expansion on home production and childcare	4
Adaptation and the distributional effects of heat: Evidence from professional archery competitions	4
The impact of temperature on labor quality: Umpire accuracy in Major League Baseball	4
Tacit collusion and price dispersion in the presence of Southwest Airlines	4
The effect of Medicaid on recidivism: Evidence from Medicaid suspension and termination policies	4
Intergenerational income mobility and economic freedom	4
The ambiguous competitive effects of passive partial forward ownership	4
The impact of chief diversity officers on diverse faculty hiring	4
The role of consumer confidence in forecasting consumption, evidence from Florida	4
The convergence dynamics of economic freedom across U.S. states	3
Impact of Great Recession bank failures on use of financial services among racial/ethnic and income groups	3
Do those with chronic health conditions benefit from the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion?	3
Escaping the long arm of the law? Racial disparities in the effect of drivers' license suspensions on offense probabilities	3
Quashing demand or changing clients? Evidence of criminalization of sex work in the United Kingdom	3
Schumpeter vs. Keynes redux: “Still not dead”	3
Does telemedicine save lives? Evidence on the effect of telemedicine parity laws on mortality rates	3
The munchies: Marijuana legalization and food sales in Washington	3