OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Comparative Economics is 2. 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
ACES membership form	54
Special issue announcement	50
Voter turnout and intergenerational redistribution	37
Gender discrimination in China: Experimental evidence from the job market for college graduates	36
Editorial Board	34
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	34
Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment	33
Bureaucracy-business relationship, corruption and the implications for marketization	33
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?	31
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	30
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China	30
Sexual exploitation of trafficked children: Survey evidence from child sex workers in Bangladesh	28
Staying on top: Political cycles in private bank lending	26
Citizen empowerment through land reform	25
ACES membership form	23
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	23
Special issue announcement	22
Editorial Board	22
Editorial Board	21
How can migration unequalize inheritance: Theory and insights from Bolivia	21
Transition from plan to market: Imperfect regulations in the electricity sector of China	21
ACES membership form	19
The moderating role of culture on the benefits of economic freedom: Cross-country analysis	18
Conflict and social capital: Evidence from the Russian War against Ukraine	18
The making of the Greek fiscal state, 1833-1939	17

Corruption and growth: Historical evidence, 1790–2010	16
Stuck outside the single market; Evidence from firms in central and eastern Europe	16
Divesting under Pressure: U.S. firms’ exit in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine	16
Corporate governance and investment-cash flow sensitivity: Evidence from Russian unlisted firms	16
Bribes vs. taxes: Market structure and incentives	15
Shutdown policies and conflict worldwide	14
Coups, regime transitions, and institutional consequences	14
The unintended harms of infrastructure: Opium and road construction in Afghanistan	14
Can Black Tulips stop Russia again?	14
Minimum wage spike and income underreporting: A back-of-the-envelope-wage analysis	14
Changing the pace of the melting pot: The effects of immigration restrictions on immigrant assimilation	13
The great Chinese inequality turnaround	12
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	11
Capitalist systems and income inequality	11
The timing of first marriage and subsequent life outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment	11
Convergence, divergence, or multiple steady states? New evidence on the institutional development within the European Union	11
Foreign direct investment and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from China	11
How local leaders matter: Inter-provincial leadership transfers and land transactions in China	10
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods	10
Legacies of Vietnam's imperial examinations, 1075–1919: More investment in education and better educational outcomes	10
Non-commercial goals and financial performance of state-owned enterprises – some evidence from the electricity sector in the EU countries	10
Stock liquidity and the signaling value of patents: Evidence from china's national equities exchange and quotations market	9
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects	9
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy	9
Editorial Board	9
The cultural origins of family firms	9
ACES membership form	9
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	9
State formation and market integration: Germany, 1780–1830	9
Pre-colonial ethnic institutions and party politics in Africa	8
Markups and income inequality: Causal links, 1975-2011	8
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	8
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	8
Gender equality in Asia and Europe during the 20th century: The role of socialism	8
The effects of fiscal rules on budget deficit: Does democracy matter?	8
Firms’ access to finance in resource-based countries and the financial resource curse	8
The compulsory education law, female education and fertility: An empirical study in China	7
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–2016	7
Hospital response to increases in prices of pediatric services: Evidence from China	7
The long-term effects of the slave trade on political violence in Sub-Saharan Africa	7
Management practices and energy efficiency: Evidence from firms in China	7
Changes to our editorial board	7
The welfare effects of FDI: A quantitative analysis	7
Democratic transitions can attract foreign direct investment: Effect, trajectories, and the role of political risk	6
Educational opportunity and children's migration: Evidence from China's Gaokao reform for children of migrant families	6
Do wages grow with experience? Deciphering the Russian puzzle	6
On the origins of national identity. German nation-building after Napoleon	6
Θ The cultural transmission of trust norms: Evide	6
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	6
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19	6

The legacy of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration	6
The social behavior of immigrants during natural disasters: Lessons from the United States	6
The effects of South Korean Protestantism on human capital and female empowerment, 1930–2010	5
Reducing tariff evasion: The role of trade facilitation	5
Changes to JCE's board of associate editors	5
Informal institution meets child development: Clan culture and child labor in China	5
Topography, borders, and trade across Europe	5
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	5
Informal pay gaps in good and bad times: Evidence from Russia	5
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	5
The gender education gap in developing countries: Roles of income shocks and culture	5
Editorial Board	5
Individualism and the legal status of prostitution	4
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	4
The rise of superstar firms in the United States: The role of global sourcing	4
How does stock liquidity affect corporate tax noncompliance? Evidence from China✰	4
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	4
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	4
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	4
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	4
Liberalizing reforms do not cause suicide: Causal estimation using matching, 1980–2019	4
Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum Wage: Evidence from Lithuania	4
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	4
Editorial Board	4
Damaged collateral and firm-level finance: Evidence from Russia’s war in Ukraine	4
Political economy of cross-border income shifting: A protection racket approach	4
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	3
Fertility and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the new two-child policies in urban China	3
The effects of TV content on entrepreneurship: Evidence from German unification	3
Migration networks, export shocks, and human capital acquisition: Evidence from China	3
Globalization of capital flows and the (in)disciplining of nations	3
Gendered language and gendered violence	3
Trust in government in times of crisis: A quasi-experiment during the two world wars✰	3
The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India	3
Defective democracy and the political budget cycle	3
The dynamics of institution building: State aids, the European commission, and the court of justice of the European Union	3
Labor market dynamics in urban China and the role of the state sector	3
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	3
Minor monarchs: The ‘Bad-Emperor’ problem in Chinese history	3
Firms and wage inequality in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Group composition of income types and the absolute-relative framing of public good contributions	3
Law and economic behaviour	3
Do non-cognitive skills matter for alcohol consumption? Evidence from Russia	3
The impact of anti-corruption on mental health: Evidence from China	3
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	2
Pandemic lockdowns and trust in local government in China	2
Institutions, abilities, and the allocation of talent: Evidence from Russian regions	2
Authoritarian transparency: China's missing cases in court disclosure	2
The (dis)connection between R&D and productivity in China: Policy implications of R&D tax credits	2
The economics of extortion: Theory and the case of the Sicilian Mafia	2
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	2
Less debt, more schooling? Evidence from cross-country micro data	2
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine	2
Editorial Board	2
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	2
Immigrants from more tolerant cultures integrate deeper into destination countries	2
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	2
The trade-off between risk and incentives in fiscal federalism: Evidence from China	2
Did raising doing business scores boost GDP?	2
Past exposure to macroeconomic shocks and populist attitudes in Europe	2
Persuasive propaganda during the 2015 Argentine Ballotage	2
Perception of political instability in election periods: Evidence from African firms	2
When the message hurts: The unintended impacts of nudges on saving	2
Organizing regulatory structure and local air quality: Evidence from the environmental vertical management reform in China	2
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	2
Geopolitical fragmentation and trade	2
Economics of majoritarian identity politics	2
The origins of agricultural inheritance traditions	2
Near-real time analysis of war and economic activity during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	2
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	2
ACES membership form	2