OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economics of Education 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of pre-conference advice on academic talk effectiveness	72
Distance to degrees: How college proximity shapes students’ enrollment choices and attainment across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status	39
Home broadband and human capital formation	36
State differences in pathways to school leadership and in achievement growth	35
Putting the “A” in AP: The effect of advanced placement state policies on student participation and performance	25
Well-being and technology: The effect of individual laptops in high school	24
Technical efficiency of public middle schools in New York City	23
University peers and career prospects: The impact of university ties on early labor market outcomes	20
Free to improve? The impact of free school attendance in England	18
The economics of encouragement: Can a simple email shape major choice?	17
Online teaching and gender bias	17
Childcare and parenting in the production of early life skills	17
Mobile Phones, Civic Engagement, and School Performance in Pakistan	16
School resources, peer inputs, and student outcomes in adult education	16
School attendance and child labor: Evidence from Mexico’s Full-Time School program	15
Public health insurance and special education enrollment	15
Foreign language skills and labor market outcomes: The case of English in Mexico	15
How cost framing affects college applications: evidence from a targeted information intervention	14
The impacts of same and opposite gender alumni speakers on interest in economics	14
Attending a school with heterogeneous peers: The effects of school detracking and its attenuation	13
Liquidity for teachers: Evidence from Teach For America and LinkedIn	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
Formal vs. informal mathematics: Assessing numeracy with school and market items in a large sample of school-aged children in North-West Nigeria	13
The importance of external assessments: High school math and gender gaps in STEM degrees	13
The signaling value of university rankings: Evidence from top 14 law schools	13

Trends in international assessments and outcomes in adulthood	13
De-tracking at the margin: How alternative secondary education pathways affect student attainment	13
Comparing earnings outcome differences between all graduates and title IV graduates	13
How do public schools respond to competition? Evidence from a charter school expansion	13
Particulate pollution and learning	12
Good or bad? Understanding the effects over time of multigrading on child achievement	12
The demand for data analytical skills by gender: Evidence from a field experiment	12
Predicting teacher retention behavior: Ex ante prediction and ex post realization of a voluntary retirement incentive offer	12
The effects of charter school entry on the supply of teachers from university-based education programs	12
Short-run shock, long-run consequences? The impact of grandparental death on educational outcomes	11
Assessing the overall benefits of programs enhancing human capital and equity: a new method with an application to school meals	11
The rising influence of family background on early school performance	11
The timing of the unconditional cash transfers and human capital accumulation: experimental evidence from Malawi	11
Social identity and learning: Adult literacy program in India	10
The UK Disability Discrimination Act 2005: Consequences for the education and employment of older children	10
Editorial Board	10
Teacher relationship skills and student learning	10
Labor market conditions and college graduation: Evidence from Brazil	10
A multi-state, student-level analysis of the effects of the four-day school week on student achievement and growth	10
Messaging teachers to boost student EdTech use	10
The attraction of magnet schools: Evidence from embedded lotteries in school assignment	10
Central exams and adult skills: Evidence from PIAAC	10
Relative performance feedback and the effects of being above average — field experiment and replication	10
Does the provision of universal free school meals improve school attendance?	9
Does state-mandated financial education reduce high school graduation rates?	9
Editorial Board	9
Escaping into a master's degree in times of crisis? Master's degree applications and enrolment over the business cycle	9
Skill-biased technological change and intergenerational education mobility	9
Is a name change a game change? The impact of college-to-university conversions	8
Closing the income-achievement gap? Experimental evidence from high-dosage tutoring in Dutch primary education	8
The impact of combining performance-management tools and training with diagnostic feedback in public schools: Experimental evidence from Argentina	8
A for effort: Incomplete information and college students’ academic performance	8
The effects of mass migration on the academic performance of native students. Evidence from Chile	8
Educational impacts of an unconditional cash transfer program in Mali	8
Gender Bias in Evaluation Processes	8
Financial literacy calls the roll — The effectiveness of a financial education program in Italian schools	8
Book matters: The effect of Cocky’s Reading Express on student performance	8
Boys left behind: The effects of summer camp and follow-up strategies on academic, personal, and social competencies	8
The impact of work-based versus school-based learning on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes in vocational secondary education	8
The educational experiences of Indian children during COVID-19	8
Breakfast After the Bell: The Effects of Expanding Access to School Breakfasts on the Weight and Achievement of Elementary School Children,	8
Hitting where it hurts most: COVID-19 and low-income urban college students	8
The effects of financial aid on graduation and labor market outcomes: New evidence from matched education-labor data	7
All pain and no gain: When goal setting leads to more effort but no gains in test scores	7
Where do colleges advertise? Demographic targeting by U.S. colleges	7
Ability signals and rigorous coursework: Evidence from AP Calculus participation	7
When Effective teacher training falls short in the classroom: Evidence from an experiment in primary schools	7
The effect of school closures on standardized test scores: Evidence under zero-COVID policies	7
Does starting a Division III college football program benefit the institution?	7
Educational pathways and earnings trajectories of second-generation immigrants in Australia: New insights from linked census-administrative data	7

The Influence of Mega Universities on college competition and outcomes	7
The effect of female education on fertility: Evidence from China’s compulsory schooling reform	7
Do welfare counsellors help at-risk upper secondary school students?	6
Streaks to success: The effects of highlighting streaks on student effort and learning	6
Editorial Board	6
Four-day school weeks and teacher mobility: Evidence from Missouri and Oklahoma	6
Local economic impact of small, non-research private universities: evidence from Japan	6
The effects of accelerated mathematics on self-efficacy and growth mindset	6
Gender and choices in higher education	6
The Labor Market Returns to Very Short-Term Rapid Postsecondary Certificates	6
Still Waters Run Deep: Groundwater Contamination and Education Outcomes in India	6
Rank, peer achievement, and shadow education: Evidence from secondary school students in China	6
Do elite schools improve students performance? Evidence from Tunisia	6
Endogenous peer effects in diverse friendship networks: Evidence from Swedish classrooms	6
Does test-based accountability improve more than just test scores?	6
Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeship Training	6
Closing the gap: Effect of a gender quota on women’s access to education in Afghanistan	5
Refugees and the educational attainment of natives: Evidence from Norway	5
Genetic risk, childhood obesity, and educational achievements	5
Peer creativity and academic achievement	5
Does the labour market value field of study specific knowledge? An alignment score based approach	5
Comprehensive early literacy policy and the “Mississippi Miracle”	5
Sitting next to a dropout: Academic success of students with more educated peers	5
The perils of returning to school—New insights into the impact of school holidays on youth suicides	5
Tuition fees and the intra-household allocation of schooling: Evidence from Uganda’s Free Primary Education reform	5
Progressivity of pricing at US public universities	5
School enrollment shifts five years after the pandemic	5
Dropping out of university in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Age matters for girls: School entry age and female graduate education	5
The impacts of climate change and air pollution on children’s education outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam	5
Reinforcing the STEM pipeline in vocational-technical high schools: The effect of female teachers	5
Improving school management in low and middle income countries: A systematic review	5
Subtraction by addition: Do private scholarship awards lead to financial aid displacement?	5
Post-secondary funding and the educational attainment of indigenous students	5
Preschool and child health: Evidence from China's universal child care reform	5
Parental misbeliefs and household investment in children's education	5
Can gamified online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? Experimental evidence from Rwanda	5
Quality measures in higher education: Norwegian evidence	5
Teachers’ use of class time and student achievement	5
Does formal education for adults yield long-term multiplier effects or human capital depreciation?	5
Making college affordable? The impacts of tuition freezes and caps	5