OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Development Economics is 10. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China	317
The costs of “blue sky”: Environmental regulation, technology upgrading, and labor demand in China	176
Straw burning, PM2.5, and death: Evidence from China	155
The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China	153
Response and adaptation of agriculture to climate change: Evidence from China	145
Greening through finance?	143
Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where?	139
The effect of air pollution on body weight and obesity: Evidence from China	110
The impact of forced displacement on host communities: A review of the empirical literature in economics	72
The effects of fuel standards on air pollution: Evidence from China	64
Trade effects of the New Silk Road: A gravity analysis	62
Rural road infrastructure & agricultural production: Evidence from India	59
Fintech and household resilience to shocks: Evidence from digital loans in Kenya	58
Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China	54
Blessing or burden? Impacts of refugees on businesses and the informal economy	49
The Belt and Road Initiative: Reshaping economic geography in Central Asia?	49
Here waits the bride? The effect of Ethiopia's child marriage law	47
The unintended impacts of agricultural fires: Human capital in China	47
Gender gaps in labor informality: The motherhood effect	41
Services development and comparative advantage in manufacturing	40
Import competition and firm innovation: Evidence from China	39
Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India	38
Foreign demand, developing country exports, and CO2 emissions: Firm-level evidence from India	38
Give me your tired and your poor: Impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees	38
Who wins, who loses? Understanding the spatially differentiated effects of the belt and road initiative	36

Economic and psychological effects of health insurance and cash transfers: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Kenya	36
Exposure to open defecation can account for the Indian enigma of child height	36
Cooking that kills: Cleaner energy access, indoor air pollution, and health	34
Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin	34
Refugees' and irregular migrants’ self-selection into Europe	33
Brothers or invaders? How crisis-driven migrants shape voting behavior	33
A Framework to Assess Debt Sustainability under the Belt and Road Initiative	33
Misperceived quality: Fertilizer in Tanzania	33
The long-term consequences of China's “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign in old age	32
Geographic connectivity and cross-border investment: The Belts, Roads and Skies	31
China's rising IQ (Innovation Quotient) and growth: Firm-level evidence	31
The new era of unconditional convergence	30
Exploitation of labor? Classical monopsony power and labor's share	29
Labour market reform and firm-level employment adjustment: Evidence from the hukou reform in China	28
Costs and benefits of rural-urban migration: Evidence from India	28
Land and labor allocation under communal tenure: Theory and evidence from China	28
Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment	27
Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment	27
Trade and agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from Africa	26
The effects of rural electrification in India: An instrumental variable approach at the household level	25
Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China	24
Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey	24
Under pressure: Women’s leadership during the COVID-19 crisis	24
Stepping up during a crisis: The unintended effects of a noncontributory pension program during the Covid-19 pandemic	24
Exposure of belt and road economies to China trade shocks	23
Land use restrictions, misallocation in agriculture, and aggregate productivity in Vietnam	22
Relief from usury: Impact of a self-help group lending program in rural India	22
Across a few prohibitive miles: The impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation Program in China	22
China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states	22
Tractor vs. animal: Rural reforms and technology adoption in China	21
Industrialization from scratch: The “Construction of Third Front” and local economic development in China's hinterland	21
The joint effects of information and financing constraints on technology adoption: Evidence from a field experiment in rural Tanzania	20
Reconciling the conflicting narratives on poverty in China	20
Colonialism and female empowerment: A two-sided legacy	20
Trade liberalization, roads and firm productivity	20
Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine	19
Things fall apart? Missions, institutions, and interpersonal trust	19
Divorce laws and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Mexico	19
The effect of refugees on native adolescents’ test scores: Quasi-experimental evidence from PISA	19
Land market distortions and aggregate agricultural productivity: Evidence from Guatemala	19
What you import matters for productivity growth: Experience from Chinese manufacturing firms	18
The effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development	18
How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession	18
Crop choice, trade costs, and agricultural productivity	18
Information, technology, and market rewards: Incentivizing aflatoxin control in Ghana	18
Input quality and skills are complementary and increase output quality: Causal evidence from Ecuador’s trade liberalization	18
Digital adoption, automation, and labor markets in developing countries	18
Top lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development	18
Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan	18
Caveat utilitor: A comparative assessment of resilience measurement approaches	18

Managing the spread of disease with mobile phone data	17
Stigma or cushion? IMF programs and sovereign creditworthiness	17
Do corporate income tax cuts decrease labor share? Regression discontinuity evidence from China	17
Trade, productivity, and the spatial organization of agriculture: Evidence from Brazil	17
Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods	17
Mandarins make markets: Leadership rotations and inter-provincial trade in China	17
Does informality facilitate inflation stability?	17
Does insecure land tenure deter investment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial	17
Production efficiency and self-enforcement in value-added tax: Evidence from state-level reform in India	17
Small firms and the pandemic: Evidence from Latin America	16
Sex, lies, and measurement: Consistency tests for indirect response survey methods	16
Refugee camps and deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa	16
Funding and financing infrastructure: The joint-use of public and private finance	16
Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys	16
Testing willingness to pay elicitation mechanisms in the field: Evidence from Uganda	16
“Moving Umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China	16
Can virtual replace in-person coaching? Experimental evidence on teacher professional development and student learning	16
Trade policy changes, tax evasion and Benford's law	15
Trans-boundary air pollution spillovers: Physical transport and economic costs by distance	15
Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants?	15
Resources, conflict, and economic development in Africa	15
Empowering refugees through cash and agriculture: A regression discontinuity design	15
The short term impact of a productive asset transfer in families with child labor: Experimental evidence from the Philippines	15
Place-based preferential tax policy and industrial development: Evidence from India’s program on industrially backward districts	15
Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India	15
Mining and human capital accumulation: Evidence from the Colombian gold rush	14
Keeping it in the family: Female inheritance, inmarriage, and the status of women	14
Gender-targeted job ads in the recruitment process: Facts from a Chinese job board	14
Infrastructure investment and growth in China: A quantitative assessment	14
Panel data and experimental design	14
A breath of fresh air: Raising awareness for clean fuel adoption	14
Tax revenue and mobile money in developing countries	14
Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration	13
An age profile perspective on two puzzles in global child health: The Indian Enigma & economic growth	13
Cash-plus: Poverty impacts of alternative transfer-based approaches	13
Public health insurance and pharmaceutical innovation: Evidence from China	13
The long road to health: Healthcare utilization impacts of a road pavement policy in rural India	13
Competition and the racial wage gap: Evidence from Brazil	12
Two and a half million Syrian refugees, tasks and capital intensity	12
A gravity analysis of refugee mobility using mobile phone data	12
Is a refugee crisis a housing crisis? Only if housing supply is unresponsive	12
Slums and pandemics	12
Experimental identification of asymmetric information: Evidence on crop insurance in the Philippines	12
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia	12
Children on the move: Progressive redistribution of humanitarian cash transfers among refugees	12
Texts don’t nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India	12
Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda	12
Tax evasion and financial development under asymmetric information in credit markets	12
Grain exports and the causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961: County-level evidence	12
The political economy of health epidemics: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak	12
Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa	11
Seeking the treated: The impact of mobile extension on farmer information exchange in India	11
How does delegating decisions to communities affect the provision and use of a public service? Evidence from a field experiment in Bangladesh	11
Financial access and women's role in household decisions: Empirical evidence from India's National Rural Livelihoods project	11
Hard to get: The scarcity of women and the competition for high-income men in urban China	11
Can youth empowerment programs reduce violence against girls during the COVID-19 pandemic?	11
Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor	11
Neighborhood quality and opposition to immigration: Evidence from German refugee shelters	11
Institutions, implementation, and program effectiveness: Evidence from a randomized evaluation of computer-assisted learning in rural China	11
Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania	11
Privacy protection, measurement error, and the integration of remote sensing and socioeconomic survey data	11
Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment	11
Land reform and human capital development: Evidence from Peru	11
How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi	11
Demand heterogeneity for index-based insurance: The case for flexible products	10
Intellectual property regimes and wage inequality	10
Discrimination from below: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia	10
Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure: A quasi-field experiment in India's manufacturing sector	10
A structural estimation of the return to infrastructure investment in China	10
Who marries whom in a surging housing market?☆	10
The value of redistribution: Natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions	10
Segregation and internal mobility of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Evidence from mobile phone data	10
Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920–1960	10
How much can we remedy very low learning levels in rural parts of low-income countries? Impact and generalizability of a multi-pronged para-teacher intervention from a cluster-randomized trial in the	10
Labor market impacts and responses: The economic consequences of a marine environmental disaster	10
Endogenous gender power: The two facets of empowerment	10
Agricultural revolution and industrialization	10
Land grabs and labor in Cambodia	10