OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Comparative Economics is 8. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
ACES membership form	76
Editorial Board	58
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	56
Citizen empowerment through land reform	52
Sexual exploitation of trafficked children: Survey evidence from child sex workers in Bangladesh	51
Judicial venality in Old Regime France: A rational choice analysis	43
The moderating role of culture on the benefits of economic freedom: Cross-country analysis	41
Professional motivation and the quantity–quality trade-off	41
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	40
Biting the hand that teaches: Unraveling the economic impact of banning private tutoring in China	38
Changes to our editorial board	38
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy	35
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	32
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	31
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19	30
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	25
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	23
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	23
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	22
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	22
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	22
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	21
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	19
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	19

Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	18
The effects of female political participation on missing women: Evidence from the Egyptian protests of 2011–2014	18
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	18
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	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
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	16
International tax evasion, state purchases of confidential bank data and voluntary disclosures	16
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	16
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics	16
Constitutions, education and gender norms change: Evidence from Colombia	16
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program	14
Editorial Board	14
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	14
Globalization raises intergenerational inequality transmission in chinese villages	14
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	13
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	13
Periods of uncertainty are linked to greater acceptance of minorities	12
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection	12
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China	11
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States	11
Trade liberalization and gender dynamics: The impact of policy uncertainty on sex ratios at birth in China	11
Intellectual property rights protection and firm innovation: Evidence from half million firms in China	11
Synchronized elections strengthen party salience: Evidence from a decentralized democracy	11
Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Evidence from a large-scale vaccination experiment in China	11
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	10
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	10
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China	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
ACES membership form	10
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?	10
Special issue announcement	10
Gender minority: A non-pecuniary approach to political capital	10
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	10
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	9
Gendered language and gendered violence	9
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–2016	9
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	9
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China	8
Misallocation across establishment gender	8
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration	8
The origins of political institutions and property rights	8
The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal	8
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	8
Editorial Board	8
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine	8
Mass migration and natives’ health at birth: Evidence from Syrian refugee inflows to Turkey	8
A theory of symbiotic corruption	8