OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Development Economics is 35. 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
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	344
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	109
The national-integration effect of compulsory education: Evidence from Chinese minorities	94
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	79
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	77
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	75
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	72
Editorial Board	71
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	66
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	59
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	56
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	53
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	52
Communist propaganda and women’s status	51
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	48
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	48
Temporary migration for long-term investment	47
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	47
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	47
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	47
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	46
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	43
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	43
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	42
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	42

Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	42
Editorial Board	41
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	41
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	40
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	39
Solving coordination failures: Collective land transfer rights and rural entrepreneurship	38
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	38
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	37
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	36
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	35