OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of World Bank Economic Review is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Taking Cover: Human Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Shocks and Health Insurance	83
Impact of Twin Lockdowns on Hunger, Labor-Market Outcomes, and Household Coping Mechanisms: Evidence from Uganda	41
Poverty and Prices: Assessing the Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty	33
Addressing Social Desirability Bias When Measuring Child Labor Use: An Application to Cocoa Farms in Côte d’Ivoire	25
Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size?	23
Social Protection amid a Crisis: New Evidence from South Africa’s Older Person’s Grant	22
Does Aid Induce Foreign Direct Investment: Updated Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	22
The Effects of Community Health Worker Visits and Primary Care Subsidies on Health Behavior and Health Outcomes for Children in Urban Mali	21
The Impact of a Maternity Support Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from India	21
Energy Efficiency and Local Macro Rebound Effects: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Rwanda	15
Do Women Contribute More Effort than Men to a Real Public Good?	14
Infrastructure and Structural Change in Africa	14
Group Incentives for the Public Good: A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment	12
Trade Networks in Latin America: Spatial Inefficiencies and Optimal Expansions	11
Shifting Attitudes towards Domestic Violence: The Impact of Primary Education on Women’s Marital Outcomes in Benin	11
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor	9
Deep Trade Agreements and FDI in Partial and General Equilibrium: A Structural Estimation Framework	9
Unilateral Trade Preferences and Export Growth in Developing Countries	9
International Commodity Prices Transmission to Consumer Prices in Africa	9
Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922–2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj	8
The Learning Crisis of Developing Country Elites: Lessons from PISA-D	8
Infrastructure Quality and FDI Inflows: Evidence from the Arrival of High-Speed Internet in Africa	8
Domestically “Flying Geese”: Regional Manufacturing Investment Flows within China	8
The Combined Role of Subsidy and Discussion Intervention in the Demand for a Stigmatized Product	7
Does the Source of FDI Matter? The Case of Tax Havens	7

Is There an Underside to Economic Growth? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Malaysia	7
Hidden Costs of War: Evidence from Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency	7
Gender Differences in Informal Labor-Market Resilience	7
Does It Matter Who You Ask For Time Use Data?	7
Workfare Programs and Their Delivery System: Effectiveness of Construyendo Perú	7
Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation in Africa	7
Long-Term Effects of an Education Stipend Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh	7
Reducing Delay in Payments in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from an Information Dissemination Intervention	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
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
Trade Shocks, Population Growth, and Migration	6
Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age	5
Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling Decisions, and Labor-Market Conditions	5
Catch-Up Growth and Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Trade Data	5
Rural Labor Supply and Recall Window Sensitivity	5
Subnational Income, Growth, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Public Pre-Primary and Maternal Employment in Algeria: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	5
Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice	5
For God, Family, and Country: The Moral Power of Authorities	5
(Joint) Bank Savings, Female Empowerment, and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia	5
Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health	5
Method Matters: The Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence	5
Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War	5
Minding the Gap: Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization	5