OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Perspectives is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	183
Recommendations for Further Reading	145
Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries	126
The Economics Profession’s Socioeconomic Diversity Problem	108
Front Matter	94
Lessons for Expanding the Share of Disadvantaged Students in Economics from the AEA Summer Program at Michigan State University	93
Oleg Itskhoki: 2022 John Bates Clark Medalist	84
Seeking the “Missing Women” of Economics with the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge	81
Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics	76
Recommendations for Further Reading	76
The 2023 Merger Guidelines and the Arc of Antitrust History	71
How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965–2020	69
Administrative Burdens in the Social Safety Net	69
The Economic Constitution of the United States	66
Retrospectives: Joan Robinson on Karl Marx: “His Sense of Reality Is Far Stronger”	60
American Enslavement and the Recovery of Black Economic History	55
Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions	55
College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap	49
Migration and Innovation: Learning from Patent and Inventor Data	49
Carbon Border Adjustments, Climate Clubs, and Subsidy Races When Climate Policies Vary	49
Monetary Policy When the Central Bank Shapes Financial-Market Sentiment	48
Compensating Wage Differentials in Labor Markets: Empirical Challenges and Applications	45
Debt Revenue and the Sustainability of Public Debt	43
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors	43
Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining	41

Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa	40
Inside the Box: Safety, Health, and Isolation in Prison	40
Depression and Loneliness among the Elderly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	40
Is Pay Transparency Good?	39
The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening a New Field	37
The Economics of Intangible Capital	36
Washington Consensus in Latin America: From Raw Model to Straw Man	36
Expected and Realized Inflation in Historical Perspective	34
What Went Wrong with Federal Student Loans?	31
The Economics of Electricity Reliability	28
Retrospectives: On the Evolution of the Rules versus Discretion Debate in Monetary Policy	27
Recommendations for Further Reading	26
Marketing Investment and Intangible Brand Capital	26
Should We Insure Workers or Jobs During Recessions?	26
Recommendations for Further Reading	26
COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes	25
Retrospectives: Margaret Reid, Chicago, and Permanent Income	24
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and Economic Research	24
Valuing Identity in the Classroom: What Economics Can Learn from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education	23
Front Matter	22
The US Pretrial System: Balancing Individual Rights and Public Interests	22
Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments	21
Alexander Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures and Industrial Policy	21
Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in the Aftermath of the Pandemic	21
Financial Sanctions, SWIFT, and the Architecture of the International Payment System	19
Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: A Relational Perspective from Coffee and Garments	19
The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms	19
A Linear Panel Model with Heterogeneous Coefficients and Variation in Exposure	19
Political Distortions, State Capture, and Economic Development in Africa	18
The Cumulative Costs of Racism and the Bill for Black Reparations	18
Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa	18
Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender	17
The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023	17
Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe	17
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?	16
The Rise of Research Teams: Benefits and Costs in Economics	16
The Ways of Corruption in Infrastructure: Lessons from the Odebrecht Case	16
Four Facts about Human Capital	16
Front Matter	15
Retrospectives: Edgar Sydenstricker: Household Equivalence Scales and the Causes of Pellagra	14
Front Matter	14
Recommendations for Further Reading	14
Front Matter	14
Fiscal Policy in Europe: Controversies over Rules, Mutual Insurance, and Centralization	13
Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?	13
An Ounce of Prevention	13
Where Does Wealth Come From? Measuring Lifetime Resources in Norway	13
Why Do Retired Households Draw Down Their Wealth So Slowly?	13
Some Thoughts on the Washington Consensus and Subsequent Global Development Experience	12
Early Career Paths of Economists Inside and Outside of Academia	12

Did Welfare Reform End the Safety Net as We Knew It? The Record since 1996	11
A Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments	11
Getting Infrastructure Built: The Law and Economics of Permitting	11
Sweeping Changes and an Uncertain Legacy: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017	10
Philipp Strack, 2024 Clark Medalist	10
Blending Theory and Data: A Space Odyssey	10
Retrospectives: Friedman and Schwartz, Disaggregated	9
Neighborhood Change, Gentrification, and the Urbanization of College Graduates	9
Of Forking Paths and Tied Hands: Selective Publication of Findings, and What Economists Should Do about It	9
When Innovation Goes Wrong: Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic	9
The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	9
The Political Economy of Industrial Policy	9
Transmission Impossible? Prospects for Decarbonizing the US Grid	9
Monetary Policy and Inequality	9
The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity	8
Does the Value-Added Tax Add Value? Lessons Using Administrative Data from a Diverse Set of Countries	8
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession	8
Agricultural Technology in Africa	7
Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System	7
Philanthropic Cause Prioritization	7
When Privacy Protection Goes Wrong: How and Why the 2020 Census Confidentiality Program Failed	6
What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?	6
Recommendations for Further Reading	6
Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation	6
Isaiah Andrews, 2021 John Bates Clark Medalist	6