OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of World Bank Economic Review 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Taking Cover: Human Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Shocks and Health Insurance	63
Impact of Twin Lockdowns on Hunger, Labor-Market Outcomes, and Household Coping Mechanisms: Evidence from Uganda	31
Does Aid Induce Foreign Direct Investment: Updated Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	24
Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size?	23
Poverty and Prices: Assessing the Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty	21
Structural Reforms and Labor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Intra or Inter-Reallocation Channel?	19
Addressing Social Desirability Bias When Measuring Child Labor Use: An Application to Cocoa Farms in Côte d’Ivoire	18
The Effects of Community Health Worker Visits and Primary Care Subsidies on Health Behavior and Health Outcomes for Children in Urban Mali	17
Social Protection amid a Crisis: New Evidence from South Africa’s Older Person’s Grant	17
Do Women Contribute More Effort than Men to a Real Public Good?	15
Energy Efficiency and Local Macro Rebound Effects: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Rwanda	15
What Do Local Government Education Managers Do to Boost Learning Outcomes?	13
Infrastructure and Structural Change in Africa	13
Shifting Attitudes towards Domestic Violence: The Impact of Primary Education on Women’s Marital Outcomes in Benin	12
Trade Networks in Latin America: Spatial Inefficiencies and Optimal Expansions	11
Group Incentives for the Public Good: A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment	11
Deep Trade Agreements and FDI in Partial and General Equilibrium: A Structural Estimation Framework	10
Unilateral Trade Preferences and Export Growth in Developing Countries	10
International Commodity Prices Transmission to Consumer Prices in Africa	9
The Learning Crisis of Developing Country Elites: Lessons from PISA-D	8
Mobile Money and Economic Activity: Evidence from Kenya	8
Hidden Costs of War: Evidence from Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency	7
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor	7
Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation in Africa	7
Domestically “Flying Geese”: Regional Manufacturing Investment Flows within China	7

Does It Matter Who You Ask For Time Use Data?	7
The Combined Role of Subsidy and Discussion Intervention in the Demand for a Stigmatized Product	7
Infrastructure Quality and FDI Inflows: Evidence from the Arrival of High-Speed Internet in Africa	7
Does the Source of FDI Matter? The Case of Tax Havens	6
Gender Differences in Informal Labor-Market Resilience	6
Investment Treaties, Local Institutions and Policies in the Global Land Rush	6
Long-Term Effects of an Education Stipend Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh	6
Direct Shock Experience vs. Tangential Shock Exposure: Indirect Effects of Flood Shocks on Well-Being and Preferences	5
Heterogeneous Trade Effects of Pre-Shipment Inspections	5
Trade Shocks, Population Growth, and Migration	5
Job Loss and Household Labor Supply Adjustments in Developing Countries: Evidence from Argentina	5
Effect of Moderate and Radical Rules on High-Caste Behavior and Norms in India	5
Reducing Delay in Payments in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from an Information Dissemination Intervention	5
Is There an Underside to Economic Growth? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Malaysia	5
Method Matters: The Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence	5
Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age	4
Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War	4
(Joint) Bank Savings, Female Empowerment, and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia	4
Subnational Income, Growth, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice	4
Catch-Up Growth and Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Trade Data	4
Minding the Gap: Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization	4
Rural Labor Supply and Recall Window Sensitivity	4
For God, Family, and Country: The Moral Power of Authorities	3
Fertility Following Natural Disasters and Epidemics in Africa	3
The Effect of Shortening High-School Duration by One Year on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana	3
Unpacking Household Engel Curves	3
Raising the Age of Marriage Entry and Child's Nutrition Intake? Evidence from the Reform of Ethiopia's Family Law	3
Public Pre-Primary and Maternal Employment in Algeria: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	3
Village Fairness Norms and Land-Rental Markets	3
The Labor-Supply Consequences of Having a Child in China	3
Disclosure of Violence against Women and Girls in Senegal	3
Chiefs, Courts, and Upholding Property Rights: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone	3
Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health	3
The Gendered Impact of Digital Jobs Platforms: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique	3
Volume, Risk, Complexity: What Makes Development Finance Projects Succeed or Fail?	3
Women Legislators in Africa and Foreign Aid	3
C-Sections, Obesity, and Healthcare Specialization: Evidence from Mexico	2
The Distribution of Effort: Physical Activity, Gender Roles, and Bargaining Power in an Agrarian Setting	2
Digital Training for Micro-Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala	2
From Workfare to Economic and Sociopolitical Stability? Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Eastern Congo	2
How Important Is Temptation Spending? Maybe Less than We Thought	2
Telescoping Error in Recalled Food Consumption: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Ethiopia	2
Measuring Inequality Using Geospatial Data	2
The Causal Effect of Early Marriage on Women's Bargaining Power: Evidence from Bangladesh	2
The Double Dividend of a Joint Tariff and VAT Reform: Evidence from Iran	2
Labor Market and Macroeconomic Dynamics in Latin America amid COVID: The Role of Digital-Adoption Policies	2
Mind the Gap: Schooling, Informality, and Fiscal Externalities in Nepal	2
How Does State Ownership Affect Firm Innovation? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms	2
Subsistence Farming and Factor Misallocation: Evidence from Ugandan Agriculture	2

Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data	2
Agricultural Productivity and Land Inequality: Evidence from the Philippines	2
Extreme Weather Events Impact Risk Tolerance and Time Preferences	2
When Water Runs Out: Adaptation to Gradual Environmental Change in Indian Agriculture	2
Predicting Poverty	2
Import Trade Liberalization and Structural Transformation: Evidence from China	2
Corrigendum to: Structural Reforms and Labor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Intra or Inter-Reallocation Channel?	2
Making Data Count: Estimating a Poverty Trend for Nigeria between 2009 and 2019	2
The Social Protection Engel Curve	2
The Role of Income Inequality for Poverty Reduction	2
Place-Based Policies and Migration: Evidence from India	2
The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times	2