Journal of Comparative Economics

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Road to division: Ethnic favoritism and road infrastructure in Ethiopia98
ACES membership form75
Editorial Board73
Judicial venality in Old Regime France: A rational choice analysis62
Professional motivation and the quantity–quality trade-off62
Citizen empowerment through land reform54
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior51
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic48
Changes to our editorial board46
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy42
Biting the hand that teaches: Unraveling the economic impact of banning private tutoring in China36
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development33
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso32
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China30
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting30
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-1929
Fragmentation or inequality: Ethnic divisions and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa27
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan27
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China26
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions25
Public events boost nationalist identity24
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements24
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports22
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior22
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises21
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective19
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration19
The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China19
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles19
Fertility and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the new two-child policies in urban China19
Political economy of real exchange rate levels17
Internal migration and labor share: Theory and evidence17
The effects of female political participation on missing women: Evidence from the Egyptian protests of 2011–201415
International tax evasion, state purchases of confidential bank data and voluntary disclosures15
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises15
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement15
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics15
Sequencing institutional development: The modernization hypothesis reconsidered14
Constitutions, education and gender norms change: Evidence from Colombia14
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade14
Synchronized elections strengthen party salience: Evidence from a decentralized democracy13
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program13
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance13
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China13
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States13
Editorial Board13
Intellectual property rights protection and firm innovation: Evidence from half million firms in China12
Periods of uncertainty are linked to greater acceptance of minorities12
Trade liberalization and gender dynamics: The impact of policy uncertainty on sex ratios at birth in China12
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection12
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China12
Special issue announcement11
Globalization raises intergenerational inequality transmission in chinese villages11
Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Evidence from a large-scale vaccination experiment in China11
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China11
The role of firms in the gender wage gap11
More than a degree: China’s college expansion and the marriage market10
ACES membership form10
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?10
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods10
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–20169
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’9
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development9
Land reform and illegal adoption of children9
Gendered language and gendered violence9
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects9
Gender minority: A non-pecuniary approach to political capital9
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country9
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration8
Imported intermediate digital inputs and income inequality8
The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal8
The impact of low-carbon pilots policy on health8
Does pollution affect exports? Evidence from China8
On the optimal size of a joint savings association8
Mass migration and natives’ health at birth: Evidence from Syrian refugee inflows to Turkey8
Misallocation across establishment gender8
The origins of political institutions and property rights8
Economic globalization and income shares8
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine8
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China8
Editorial Board8
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