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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
ACES membership form	92
Editorial Board	74
Road to division: Ethnic favoritism and road infrastructure in Ethiopia	70
Professional motivation and the quantity–quality trade-off	62
Judicial venality in Old Regime France: A rational choice analysis	60
Citizen empowerment through land reform	53
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	51
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	47
Changes to our editorial board	45
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy	42
Biting the hand that teaches: Unraveling the economic impact of banning private tutoring in China	36
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	32
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	30
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19	29
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	29
Fragmentation or inequality: Ethnic divisions and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa	29
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	27
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	26
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	24
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	24
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	23
Fertility and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the new two-child policies in urban China	22
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	22
Public events boost nationalist identity	21
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	19

The effects of female political participation on missing women: Evidence from the Egyptian protests of 2011–2014	19
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	19
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	19
The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China	19
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	17
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	17
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics	15
Internal migration and labor share: Theory and evidence	15
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	15
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	14
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	14
International tax evasion, state purchases of confidential bank data and voluntary disclosures	14
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	14
Trade liberalization and gender dynamics: The impact of policy uncertainty on sex ratios at birth in China	13
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program	13
Editorial Board	13
Constitutions, education and gender norms change: Evidence from Colombia	13
Synchronized elections strengthen party salience: Evidence from a decentralized democracy	13
Globalization raises intergenerational inequality transmission in chinese villages	13
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China	12
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	12
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	12
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States	12
Periods of uncertainty are linked to greater acceptance of minorities	12
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?	11
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection	11
Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Evidence from a large-scale vaccination experiment in China	11
Intellectual property rights protection and firm innovation: Evidence from half million firms in China	11
ACES membership form	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
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	10
Special issue announcement	10
More than a degree: China’s college expansion and the marriage market	10
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	9
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–2016	9
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects	9
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	8
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	8
The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal	8
The origins of political institutions and property rights	8
Misallocation across establishment gender	8
Mass migration and natives’ health at birth: Evidence from Syrian refugee inflows to Turkey	8
Gender minority: A non-pecuniary approach to political capital	8
Gendered language and gendered violence	8
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	8
Does pollution affect exports? Evidence from China	8
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine	8
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration	8
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	8

Economic globalization and income shares	8
Imported intermediate digital inputs and income inequality	8
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China	8
Editorial Board	8