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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	305
Assessors influence results: Evidence on enumerator effects and educational impact evaluations	276
Poverty and perseverance: The detrimental effect of poverty on effort provision	136
Mobile Internet access and political outcomes: Evidence from South Africa	118
Child marriage as informal insurance: Empirical evidence and policy simulations	89
Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895	78
Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets	64
Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China	63
Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times	62
Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country	61
How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?	56
Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool: Experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots	55
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	55
Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting	55
How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi	48
Communist propaganda and women’s status	47
Editorial Board	46
Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico	44
Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania	44
The Generalized System of Preferences and NGO activism	42
Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors	41
Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India	41
Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China	40
Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys	39
Temporary migration for long-term investment	39

Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh	38
Firms and inequality when unemployment is high	38
Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor	37
Unlocking the benefits of credit through saving	37
The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China	37
Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil	36
Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India	36
Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature	36
Consequences of a massive refugee influx on firm performance and market structure	35
Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation: Evidence from China’s economic zones	35