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

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	59
ACES membership form	52
Coups, regime transitions, and institutional consequences	43
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	40
The moderating role of culture on the benefits of economic freedom: Cross-country analysis	40
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	38
Citizen empowerment through land reform	38
Sexual exploitation of trafficked children: Survey evidence from child sex workers in Bangladesh	37
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy	34
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19	33
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	31
Changes to our editorial board	31
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	31
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	30
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	27
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	26
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	26
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	26
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	24
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	24
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	23
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	23
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	23
Fertility and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the new two-child policies in urban China	20
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	19

Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	18
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	18
The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China	18
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	17
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics	17
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	16
Exchange rate disconnect and financial constraints —evidence from Chinese firms	16
Editorial Board	15
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	15
Periods of uncertainty are linked to greater acceptance of minorities	14
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program	14
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States	14
The puzzling politics of R&D: Signaling competence through risky projects	14
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	14
Enfranchising non-citizens: What drives natives’ willingness to share power?	14
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	13
Globalization Raises Intergenerational Inequality Transmission in Chinese Villages	12
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection	12
The unintended harms of infrastructure: Opium and road construction in Afghanistan	12
Touch thee not: Group conflict, caste power and untouchability in rural India	12
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China	12
Voter turnout and intergenerational redistribution	11
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China	11
Special issue announcement	11
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	10
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?	10
Democratic transitions can attract foreign direct investment: Effect, trajectories, and the role of political risk	10
ACES membership form	10
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	10
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods	10
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects	10
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–2016	10
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	9
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	9
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration	9
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	9
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China	9
Defective democracy and the political budget cycle	9
Gendered language and gendered violence	9
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	9
Editorial Board	9
The origins of political institutions and property rights	8
The effect of regulating political connections: Evidence from China's board of directors ban	8
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine	8
The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal	8
Misallocation across establishment gender	8
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 changing composition of academic majors and wage dynamics: Beyond mean returns	7
Societal diversity, group identities and their implications for tax morale	7

Editorial Board	7
The political transfer problem: How cross-border financial windfalls affect democracy and civil war	7
Editorial Board	7
Post-materialism and economic growth: Cultural backlash, 1981–2019	7
Foreign-assisted infrastructure and local employment: Evidence from China's aid to Africa	7
Leadership vacuum and urban economic development: Evidence from a transition country	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	6
Convergence, divergence, or multiple steady states? New evidence on the institutional development within the European Union	6
ACES membership form	6
Staying on top: Political cycles in private bank lending	6
Conflict and social capital: Evidence from the Russian War against Ukraine	6
Bureaucracy-business relationship, corruption and the implications for marketization	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
The growth consequences of socialism	6
Editorial Board	6
Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment	6
Capitalist systems and income inequality	5
The legacy of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration	5
Editorial Board	5
Migration networks, export shocks, and human capital acquisition: Evidence from China	5
Law and economic behaviour	5
The compulsory education law, female education and fertility: An empirical study in China	5
Foreign direct investment and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from China	5
Firms’ access to finance in resource-based countries and the financial resource curse	5
The impact of anti-corruption on mental health: Evidence from China	5
Editorial Board	5
Trust in government in times of crisis: A quasi-experiment during the two world wars✰	5
The great Chinese inequality turnaround	5
The cultural origins of family firms	5
Gender equality in Asia and Europe during the 20th century: The role of socialism	5
Liberalizing reforms do not cause suicide: Causal estimation using matching, 1980–2019	5
Group composition of income types and the absolute-relative framing of public good contributions	5
The impact of health insurance on job location choice: Evidence from rural China	4
The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India	4
ACES membership form	4
Can bribery buy health? Evidence from post-communist countries	4
Effects of public sector wages on corruption: Wage inequality matters	4
Can digital financial inclusion facilitate intergenerational income mobility? Evidence from China	4
Understanding trends in Chinese skill premiums, 2007–2018	4
Canal and trade: Transportation infrastructure and market integration in China, 1780–1911	4
The colonial legacy of education: Evidence from Tunisia	4
Demilitarization and economic growth: Empirical evidence in support of a peace dividend	4
Editorial Board	4
The origins of agricultural inheritance traditions	4
Persuasive propaganda during the 2015 Argentine Ballotage	4
Perception of political instability in election periods: Evidence from African firms	4
A simple method to ex-ante quantify the unobservable effects of trade liberalization and trade protection	4
Sleeping with the enemy: The perils of having the government on(the)board	4
The impact of an online game-based financial education course: Multi-country experimental evidence	3
The intergenerational transmission of historical conflicts: An application to China’s trade	3
The making of the Greek fiscal state, 1833-1939	3
Stuck outside the single market; Evidence from firms in central and eastern Europe	3
The effects of superstition on firms' investment behavior: Evidence from Vietnam, an irreligious country✰	3
Rebundling Institutions: How property rights and contracting institutions combine for growth	3
The East-West German gap in revenue productivity:Just a tale of output prices?	3
The effects of trade, aid, and investment on China's image in Latin America	3
Gender discrimination in China: Experimental evidence from the job market for college graduates	3
Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions	3
The joint effects of financial development and the business environment on firm growth: Evidence from Vietnam	3
Minimum wage spike and income underreporting: A back-of-the-envelope-wage analysis	3
How can migration unequalize inheritance: Theory and insights from Bolivia	3