OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of World Bank Economic Review is 1. 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
Taking Cover: Human Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Shocks and Health Insurance	81
Impact of Twin Lockdowns on Hunger, Labor-Market Outcomes, and Household Coping Mechanisms: Evidence from Uganda	41
Does Aid Induce Foreign Direct Investment: Updated Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	32
Poverty and Prices: Assessing the Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty	25
Addressing Social Desirability Bias When Measuring Child Labor Use: An Application to Cocoa Farms in Côte d’Ivoire	22
Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size?	21
The Impact of a Maternity Support Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from India	21
Social Protection amid a Crisis: New Evidence from South Africa’s Older Person’s Grant	21
The Effects of Community Health Worker Visits and Primary Care Subsidies on Health Behavior and Health Outcomes for Children in Urban Mali	20
Energy Efficiency and Local Macro Rebound Effects: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Rwanda	19
Do Women Contribute More Effort than Men to a Real Public Good?	15
Group Incentives for the Public Good: A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment	14
Infrastructure and Structural Change in Africa	14
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
Deep Trade Agreements and FDI in Partial and General Equilibrium: A Structural Estimation Framework	11
International Commodity Prices Transmission to Consumer Prices in Africa	9
Unilateral Trade Preferences and Export Growth in Developing Countries	9
Mobile Money and Economic Activity: Evidence from Kenya	9
Domestically “Flying Geese”: Regional Manufacturing Investment Flows within China	8
The Learning Crisis of Developing Country Elites: Lessons from PISA-D	8
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor	8
Workfare Programs and Their Delivery System: Effectiveness of Construyendo Perú	7
Does It Matter Who You Ask For Time Use Data?	7
Hidden Costs of War: Evidence from Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency	7

Long-Term Effects of an Education Stipend Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh	7
Does the Source of FDI Matter? The Case of Tax Havens	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
Gender Differences in Informal Labor-Market Resilience	7
Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation in Africa	7
Is There an Underside to Economic Growth? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Malaysia	6
Heterogeneous Trade Effects of Pre-Shipment Inspections	6
Effect of Moderate and Radical Rules on High-Caste Behavior and Norms in India	6
Job Loss and Household Labor Supply Adjustments in Developing Countries: Evidence from Argentina	6
Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Child Poverty in Consumption	6
Direct Shock Experience vs. Tangential Shock Exposure: Indirect Effects of Flood Shocks on Well-Being and Preferences	6
Reducing Delay in Payments in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from an Information Dissemination Intervention	6
Trade Shocks, Population Growth, and Migration	6
Catch-Up Growth and Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Trade Data	5
Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War	5
Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling Decisions, and Labor-Market Conditions	5
Public Pre-Primary and Maternal Employment in Algeria: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	5
Minding the Gap: Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization	5
Rural Labor Supply and Recall Window Sensitivity	5
Subnational Income, Growth, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
For God, Family, and Country: The Moral Power of Authorities	5
Method Matters: The Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence	5
Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice	5
Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age	5
(Joint) Bank Savings, Female Empowerment, and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia	5
Formalizing Employment in Africa’s Small Firms: Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire	4
Women Legislators in Africa and Foreign Aid	4
Unpacking Household Engel Curves	4
Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health	4
The Gendered Impact of Digital Jobs Platforms: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique	4
Village Fairness Norms and Land-Rental Markets	4
Volume, Risk, Complexity: What Makes Development Finance Projects Succeed or Fail?	4
Fertility Following Natural Disasters and Epidemics in Africa	4
The Effect of Shortening High-School Duration by One Year on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana	4
Chiefs, Courts, and Upholding Property Rights: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone	4
The Labor-Supply Consequences of Having a Child in China	4
Disclosure of Violence against Women and Girls in Senegal	3
Telescoping Error in Recalled Food Consumption: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Ethiopia	3
The Social Protection Engel Curve	3
Firm Exit and Suspension in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Household Business Tax Census in Vietnam	3
From Conflict to Compromise: Experimental Evidence on Occupational Downgrading in Migration from Myanmar	3
Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data	3
Raising the Age of Marriage Entry and Child's Nutrition Intake? Evidence from the Reform of Ethiopia's Family Law	3
Agricultural Productivity and Land Inequality: Evidence from the Philippines	3
Measuring Inequality Using Geospatial Data	3
How Does State Ownership Affect Firm Innovation? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms	2
Subsistence Farming and Factor Misallocation: Evidence from Ugandan Agriculture	2
Labor Market and Macroeconomic Dynamics in Latin America amid COVID: The Role of Digital-Adoption Policies	2
The Causal Effect of Early Marriage on Women's Bargaining Power: Evidence from Bangladesh	2

Import Trade Liberalization and Structural Transformation: Evidence from China	2
The Double Dividend of a Joint Tariff and VAT Reform: Evidence from Iran	2
Extreme Weather Events Impact Risk Tolerance and Time Preferences	2
From Workfare to Economic and Sociopolitical Stability? Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Eastern Congo	2
Place-Based Policies and Migration: Evidence from India	2
Mind the Gap: Schooling, Informality, and Fiscal Externalities in Nepal	2
C-Sections, Obesity, and Healthcare Specialization: Evidence from Mexico	2
Predicting Poverty	2
When Water Runs Out: Adaptation to Gradual Environmental Change in Indian Agriculture	2
Making Data Count: Estimating a Poverty Trend for Nigeria between 2009 and 2019	2
What Did They Say? Respondent Identity, Question Framing and the Measurement of Employment	2
New Economic Opportunities and Children’s Outcomes: Negative Effects of Artisanal Mines on Primary Education	2
On the Historical Roots of Gender Norms: Evidence from Matrilineal Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Digital Training for Micro-Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala	2
The Distribution of Effort: Physical Activity, Gender Roles, and Bargaining Power in an Agrarian Setting	2
The Occupation Content of Trade	1
Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations	1
Broken Promises: Evaluating an Incomplete Start-Up Business Program	1
Conflicts and Growth: The R&D Channel	1
Performance Pay Increases Dog Vaccinations to Reduce Human Rabies	1
Reducing Emission of CO2 from Africa’s Tropical Forests: A Randomized Controlled Trial	1
Minimum Wage Policy and Poverty in Indonesia	1
Can Discussions about Girls’ Education Improve Academic Outcomes? Evidence from a Randomized Development Project	1
Rural Road Infrastructure and Women’s Empowerment in India	1
Female Education and Brideprice: Evidence from Primary Education Reform in Uganda	1
A Measurement of Aggregate Trade Restrictions and Their Economic Effects	1
The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times	1
Polygyny and Drought Resilience in Village Economies: Evidence from Rural Mali	1
Is There a Bright Side to the China Syndrome? Rising Export Opportunities and Life Satisfaction in China	1
Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania	1
Edutainment, Savings and Empowerment in Rural Areas of Peru	1
Economic Consequences of Trade and Global Value Chain Integration: A Measurement Perspective	1
Debtor (Non-)Participation in Sovereign Debt Relief: A Real Option Approach	1
Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from Colombia	1
Africa's Manufacturing Puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms	1
Why Programs Fail: Lessons for Improving Public Service Quality from a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of an Unsuccessful Teacher Training Program in Nepal	1
Food Inflation and Child Health	1
Intimate Partner Violence, Reporting Bias, and Impact Evaluation: Evidence from Bangladesh	1
Filling the “Decency Gap”? Donors’ Reaction to US Policy on International Family Planning Aid	1
Nowcasting Global Poverty	1
Child Labor under Cash and In-Kind Transfers	1
Syrian Refugee Inflows, Health-Care Access, and Childhood Vaccination in Turkey	1
Nudging Payment Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Pay-as-You-Go Off-Grid Electricity	1
Complementarities in Infrastructure: Evidence from Indian Agriculture	1