OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economics of Education Review is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of pre-conference advice on academic talk effectiveness	68
Distance to degrees: How college proximity shapes students’ enrollment choices and attainment across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status	34
Adolescents’ time allocation and skill production	34
Childcare and parenting in the production of early life skills	30
Online teaching and gender bias	22
Home broadband and human capital formation	21
Putting the “A” in AP: The effect of advanced placement state policies on student participation and performance	21
Well-being and technology: The effect of individual laptops in high school	20
State differences in pathways to school leadership and in achievement growth	17
The impacts of same and opposite gender alumni speakers on interest in economics	17
Technical efficiency of public middle schools in New York City	17
University peers and career prospects: The impact of university ties on early labor market outcomes	17
The economics of encouragement: Can a simple email shape major choice?	16
Foreign language skills and labor market outcomes: The case of English in Mexico	16
Public health insurance and special education enrollment	16
School resources, peer inputs, and student outcomes in adult education	15
De-tracking at the margin: How alternative secondary education pathways affect student attainment	15
School attendance and child labor: Evidence from Mexico’s Full-Time School program	14
Mobile Phones, Civic Engagement, and School Performance in Pakistan	14
The importance of external assessments: High school math and gender gaps in STEM degrees	13
Corrigendum to “Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru” [Economics of Education Review,	13
How cost framing affects college applications: evidence from a targeted information intervention	13
Formal vs. informal mathematics: Assessing numeracy with school and market items in a large sample of school-aged children in North-West Nigeria	13
Comparing earnings outcome differences between all graduates and title IV graduates	13
Good or bad? Understanding the effects over time of multigrading on child achievement	12

How do public schools respond to competition? Evidence from a charter school expansion	12
Attending a school with heterogeneous peers: The effects of school detracking and its attenuation	12
Liquidity for teachers: Evidence from Teach For America and LinkedIn	12
The signaling value of university rankings: Evidence from top 14 law schools	12
The timing of the unconditional cash transfers and human capital accumulation: experimental evidence from Malawi	11
Short-run shock, long-run consequences? The impact of grandparental death on educational outcomes	11
A multi-state, student-level analysis of the effects of the four-day school week on student achievement and growth	11
The demand for data analytical skills by gender: Evidence from a field experiment	11
The effects of charter school entry on the supply of teachers from university-based education programs	11
Assessing the overall benefits of programs enhancing human capital and equity: a new method with an application to school meals	11
Relative performance feedback and the effects of being above average — field experiment and replication	11
Predicting teacher retention behavior: Ex ante prediction and ex post realization of a voluntary retirement incentive offer	11
The rising influence of family background on early school performance	11
Particulate pollution and learning	11
Central exams and adult skills: Evidence from PIAAC	10
Does the provision of universal free school meals improve school attendance?	10
Editorial Board	10
Social identity and learning: Adult literacy program in India	10
Teacher relationship skills and student learning	10
The attraction of magnet schools: Evidence from embedded lotteries in school assignment	10
Editorial Board	10
The UK Disability Discrimination Act 2005: Consequences for the education and employment of older children	10
Labor market conditions and college graduation: Evidence from Brazil	10
Escaping into a master's degree in times of crisis? Master's degree applications and enrolment over the business cycle	9
Is a name change a game change? The impact of college-to-university conversions	9
Hitting where it hurts most: COVID-19 and low-income urban college students	9
The impact of combining performance-management tools and training with diagnostic feedback in public schools: Experimental evidence from Argentina	9
Does state-mandated financial education reduce high school graduation rates?	9
Closing the income-achievement gap? Experimental evidence from high-dosage tutoring in Dutch primary education	9
The impact of work-based versus school-based learning on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes in vocational secondary education	9
Educational impacts of an unconditional cash transfer program in Mali	9
Does starting a Division III college football program benefit the institution?	9
Gender Bias in Evaluation Processes	9
Boys left behind: The effects of summer camp and follow-up strategies on academic, personal, and social competencies	9
The effects of mass migration on the academic performance of native students. Evidence from Chile	9
The educational experiences of Indian children during COVID-19	9
Skill-biased technological change and intergenerational education mobility	9
A for effort: Incomplete information and college students’ academic performance	8
The effects of financial aid on graduation and labor market outcomes: New evidence from matched education-labor data	8
Breakfast After the Bell: The Effects of Expanding Access to School Breakfasts on the Weight and Achievement of Elementary School Children,	8
The effect of female education on fertility: Evidence from China’s compulsory schooling reform	8
Book matters: The effect of Cocky’s Reading Express on student performance	8
Ability signals and rigorous coursework: Evidence from AP Calculus participation	8
The Influence of Mega Universities on college competition and outcomes	8
All pain and no gain: When goal setting leads to more effort but no gains in test scores	8
Bias in education disability accommodations	8
Centralized college admissions and student composition	8
Do elite schools improve students performance? Evidence from Tunisia	7
Where do colleges advertise? Demographic targeting by U.S. colleges	7
Do welfare counsellors help at-risk upper secondary school students?	7

The Labor Market Returns to Very Short-Term Rapid Postsecondary Certificates	7
The effect of school closures on standardized test scores: Evidence under zero-COVID policies	7
Local economic impact of small, non-research private universities: evidence from Japan	7
Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeship Training	7
Peer creativity and academic achievement	7
When Effective teacher training falls short in the classroom: Evidence from an experiment in primary schools	7
Rank, peer achievement, and shadow education: Evidence from secondary school students in China	7
The effects of accelerated mathematics on self-efficacy and growth mindset	7
Still Waters Run Deep: Groundwater Contamination and Education Outcomes in India	7
Tuition fees and the intra-household allocation of schooling: Evidence from Uganda’s Free Primary Education reform	6
Genetic risk, childhood obesity, and educational achievements	6
Post-secondary funding and the educational attainment of indigenous students	6
Can gamified online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? Experimental evidence from Rwanda	6
Preschool and child health: Evidence from China's universal child care reform	6
Closing the gap: Effect of a gender quota on women’s access to education in Afghanistan	6
Editorial Board	6
Progressivity of pricing at US public universities	6
Endogenous peer effects in diverse friendship networks: Evidence from Swedish classrooms	6
Subtraction by addition: Do private scholarship awards lead to financial aid displacement?	6
Dropping out of university in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Gender and choices in higher education	6
Does test-based accountability improve more than just test scores?	6
Refugees and the educational attainment of natives: Evidence from Norway	6