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 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
Citizen empowerment through land reform	38
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	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
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	31
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	31
Changes to our editorial board	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
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	26
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 growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	24
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	24
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	23
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	23
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	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

The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China	18
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
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
Exchange rate disconnect and financial constraints —evidence from Chinese firms	16
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	16
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	15
Editorial Board	15
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
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
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	13
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
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
Special issue announcement	11
Voter turnout and intergenerational redistribution	11
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China	11
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
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
Gendered language and gendered violence	9
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	9
Editorial Board	9
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
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
The origins of political institutions and property rights	8
The effect of regulating political connections: Evidence from China's board of directors ban	8