OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of World Bank Economic Review is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Addressing Social Desirability Bias When Measuring Child Labor Use: An Application to Cocoa Farms in Côte d’Ivoire	78
Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size?	45
Taking Cover: Human Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Shocks and Health Insurance	29
The Intergenerational Effects of Economic Sanctions	20
Does Aid Induce Foreign Direct Investment: Updated Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	20
Structural Reforms and Labor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Intra or Inter-Reallocation Channel?	17
Poverty and Prices: Assessing the Impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and Global Poverty	15
Social Protection amid a Crisis: New Evidence from South Africa’s Older Person’s Grant	14
Impact of Twin Lockdowns on Hunger, Labor-Market Outcomes, and Household Coping Mechanisms: Evidence from Uganda	14
The Effects of Community Health Worker Visits and Primary Care Subsidies on Health Behavior and Health Outcomes for Children in Urban Mali	13
What Do Local Government Education Managers Do to Boost Learning Outcomes?	13
Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez’s Venezuela	12
Do Women Contribute More Effort than Men to a Real Public Good?	12
Energy Efficiency and Local Macro Rebound Effects: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Rwanda	12
Infrastructure and Structural Change in Africa	12
Shifting Attitudes towards Domestic Violence: The Impact of Primary Education on Women’s Marital Outcomes in Benin	11
Deep Trade Agreements and FDI in Partial and General Equilibrium: A Structural Estimation Framework	10
Group Incentives for the Public Good: A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment	10
The Pass-Through of International Commodity Price Shocks to Producers’ Welfare: Evidence from Ethiopian Coffee Farmers	10
Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Evidence	9
Trade Networks in Latin America: Spatial Inefficiencies and Optimal Expansions	9
Unilateral Trade Preferences and Export Growth in Developing Countries	8
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor	7
International Commodity Prices Transmission to Consumer Prices in Africa	7
Domestically “Flying Geese”: Regional Manufacturing Investment Flows within China	7

Mobile Money and Economic Activity: Evidence from Kenya	7
The Learning Crisis of Developing Country Elites: Lessons from PISA-D	7
The Combined Role of Subsidy and Discussion Intervention in the Demand for a Stigmatized Product	6
Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation in Africa	6
Hidden Costs of War: Evidence from Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency	6
Infrastructure Quality and FDI Inflows: Evidence from the Arrival of High-Speed Internet in Africa	5
Gender Differences in Informal Labor-Market Resilience	5
Job Loss and Household Labor Supply Adjustments in Developing Countries: Evidence from Argentina	5
Investment Treaties, Local Institutions and Policies in the Global Land Rush	5
Does the Source of FDI Matter? The Case of Tax Havens	5
Long-Term Effects of an Education Stipend Program on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh	5
Does It Matter Who You Ask For Time Use Data?	5
Reducing Delay in Payments in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from an Information Dissemination Intervention	4
Heterogeneous Trade Effects of Pre-Shipment Inspections	4
Direct Shock Experience vs. Tangential Shock Exposure: Indirect Effects of Flood Shocks on Well-Being and Preferences	4
Trade Shocks, Population Growth, and Migration	4
Method Matters: The Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence	3
(Joint) Bank Savings, Female Empowerment, and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia	3
Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War	3
Public Pre-Primary and Maternal Employment in Algeria: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	3
The Effect of Shortening High-School Duration by One Year on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana	3
Fertility Following Natural Disasters and Epidemics in Africa	3
Catch-Up Growth and Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Trade Data	3
Subnational Income, Growth, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Minding the Gap: Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization	3
Raising the Age of Marriage Entry and Child's Nutrition Intake? Evidence from the Reform of Ethiopia's Family Law	3
Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health	3
Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age	3
Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice	3
Effect of Moderate and Radical Rules on High-Caste Behavior and Norms in India	3
Village Fairness Norms and Land-Rental Markets	3
The Macroeconomy After Tariffs	3