OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Development Economics is 33. 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
Editorial Board	297
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	269
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	130
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	117
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	80
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	76
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	61
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	58
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	58
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	57
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	53
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	52
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	52
Communist propaganda and women’s status	47
Editorial Board	46
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	46
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	43
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	43
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	42
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	42
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	39
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	39
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	38
Temporary migration for long-term investment	38
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	37

Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	37
Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	37
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	36
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	35
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	35
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil	35
Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?	34
Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure	34
A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay	33
Peaceful entry: Entrepreneurship dynamics during Colombia’s peace agreement	33
Does social capital positively influence loan performance even during a crisis?	33
Welfare effects of an in-kind transfer program: Evidence from Mexico	33