OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

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

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	47
ACES membership form	46
Professional motivation and the quantity–quality trade-off	44
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	41
Judicial venality in Old Regime France: A rational choice analysis	41
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	38
The moderating role of culture on the benefits of economic freedom: Cross-country analysis	38
Citizen empowerment through land reform	34
Sexual exploitation of trafficked children: Survey evidence from child sex workers in Bangladesh	33
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19	33
Changes to our editorial board	32
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy	32
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	31
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	29
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	28
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	28
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	27
Biting the hand that teaches: Unraveling the economic impact of banning private tutoring in China	27
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	25
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	24
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	23
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	21
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	21
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	19
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	19

Fertility and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the new two-child policies in urban China	18
The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China	17
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics	17
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	17
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	16
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	16
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	16
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	15
Exchange rate disconnect and financial constraints —evidence from Chinese firms	15
Editorial Board	14
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	14
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program	14
Periods of uncertainty are linked to greater acceptance of minorities	13
Globalization Raises Intergenerational Inequality Transmission in Chinese Villages	13
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States	13
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection	12
The puzzling politics of R&D: Signaling competence through risky projects	12
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	11
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	11
Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Evidence from a large-scale vaccination experiment in China	11
Enfranchising non-citizens: What drives natives’ willingness to share power?	11
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods	11
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China	11
Intellectual property rights protection and firm innovation: Evidence from half million firms in China	11
Special issue announcement	11
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	10
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China	10
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?	10
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	9
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	9
ACES membership form	9
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects	9
Gendered language and gendered violence	9
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	9
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–2016	9
Gender minority: A non-pecuniary approach to political capital	9
Defective democracy and the political budget cycle	8
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration	8
Editorial Board	8
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine	8
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	8
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	8
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China	8
The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal	7
A theory of symbiotic corruption	7
Current expenditure upswings in good times and public investment downswings in bad times? New evidence from developing countries	7
The origins of political institutions and property rights	7
Foreign-assisted infrastructure and local employment: Evidence from China's aid to Africa	7
Post-materialism and economic growth: Cultural backlash, 1981–2019	7
Misallocation across establishment gender	7

Editorial Board	7
Leadership vacuum and urban economic development: Evidence from a transition country	7
Editorial Board	6
Bureaucracy-business relationship, corruption and the implications for marketization	6
Staying on top: Political cycles in private bank lending	6
Convergence, divergence, or multiple steady states? New evidence on the institutional development within the European Union	6
Editorial Board	6
Conflict and social capital: Evidence from the Russian War against Ukraine	6
ACES membership form	6
Does the early bird catch the worm? The effect of school starting age on educational attainment and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban twins data	6
Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment	6
Societal diversity, group identities and their implications for tax morale	6
The growth consequences of socialism	6
Editorial Board	6
Capitalist systems and income inequality	6
Editorial Board	6
The cultural origins of family firms	5
The legacy of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration	5
The compulsory education law, female education and fertility: An empirical study in China	5
Law and economic behaviour	5
Can past informality impede registered firms’ access to credit?	5
Gender equality in Asia and Europe during the 20th century: The role of socialism	5
Firms’ access to finance in resource-based countries and the financial resource curse	5
Migration networks, export shocks, and human capital acquisition: Evidence from China	5
The origins of agricultural inheritance traditions	5
Liberalizing reforms do not cause suicide: Causal estimation using matching, 1980–2019	5
Editorial Board	5
Foreign direct investment and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from China	5
The impact of anti-corruption on mental health: Evidence from China	5
Group composition of income types and the absolute-relative framing of public good contributions	5
The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India	5
The colonial legacy of education: Evidence from Tunisia	4
Perception of political instability in election periods: Evidence from African firms	4
Effects of public sector wages on corruption: Wage inequality matters	4
The impact of health insurance on job location choice: Evidence from rural China	4
Understanding trends in Chinese skill premiums, 2007–2018	4
Persuasive propaganda during the 2015 Argentine Ballotage	4
Can bribery buy health? Evidence from post-communist countries	4
Sleeping with the enemy: The perils of having the government on(the)board	4
A simple method to ex-ante quantify the unobservable effects of trade liberalization and trade protection	4
ACES membership form	4
Canal and trade: Transportation infrastructure and market integration in China, 1780–1911	4
Demilitarization and economic growth: Empirical evidence in support of a peace dividend	4
Can digital financial inclusion facilitate intergenerational income mobility? Evidence from China	4
Editorial Board	3
Rebundling Institutions: How property rights and contracting institutions combine for growth	3
The impact of an online game-based financial education course: Multi-country experimental evidence	3
Corporate governance and investment-cash flow sensitivity: Evidence from Russian unlisted firms	3
Gender discrimination in China: Experimental evidence from the job market for college graduates	3
The effects of superstition on firms' investment behavior: Evidence from Vietnam, an irreligious country✰	3
The intergenerational transmission of historical conflicts: An application to China’s trade	3
Stuck outside the single market; Evidence from firms in central and eastern Europe	3
The making of the Greek fiscal state, 1833-1939	3
Stock liquidity and the signaling value of patents: Evidence from china's national equities exchange and quotations market	3
Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions	3
The East-West German gap in revenue productivity:Just a tale of output prices?	3
The joint effects of financial development and the business environment on firm growth: Evidence from Vietnam	3
How can migration unequalize inheritance: Theory and insights from Bolivia	3
Minimum wage spike and income underreporting: A back-of-the-envelope-wage analysis	3
Topography, borders, and trade across Europe	3