OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Perspectives is 20. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors	196
American Enslavement and the Recovery of Black Economic History	133
Migration and Innovation: Learning from Patent and Inventor Data	125
Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions	123
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and Economic Research	100
Economic Markets and Pharmaceutical Innovation	100
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?	97
COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes	87
The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023	86
Financial Sanctions, SWIFT, and the Architecture of the International Payment System	79
US Corporate Bond Markets: Bigger and (Maybe) Better?	77
Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender	75
Front Matter	75
Front Matter	68
Early Career Paths of Economists Inside and Outside of Academia	60
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession	58
Blending Theory and Data: A Space Odyssey	54
How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics	50
Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children	47
How Economists Could Help Inform Economic and Budget Analysis Used by the US Congress	47
Recommendations for Further Reading	46
The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains	42
Designing Simple Mechanisms	41
Front Matter	41
Industrial Policy: Lessons from Shipbuilding	41

Recommendations for Further Reading	40
Recommendations for Further Reading	39
Government Data of the People, by the People, for the People: Navigating Citizen Privacy Concerns	38
Front Matter	36
Export-Led Industrial Policy for Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners?	35
Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy	33
Overreaction and Diagnostic Expectations in Macroeconomics	31
Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War	31
Administrative Burdens in the Social Safety Net	30
The Economics of Generic Drug Shortages: The Limits of Competition	29
Seeking the “Missing Women” of Economics with the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge	29
College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap	29
What Went Wrong with Federal Student Loans?	28
Why Is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market So Costly to Investors and Issuers?	28
Front Matter	28
Retrospectives: Margaret Reid, Chicago, and Permanent Income	28
Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments	27
Front Matter	26
Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in the Aftermath of the Pandemic	26
The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	25
Sweeping Changes and an Uncertain Legacy: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017	24
Agricultural Technology in Africa	22
Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?	21
What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?	21
A Social Insurance Perspective on Pandemic Fiscal Policy: Implications for Unemployment Insurance and Hazard Pay	20
Tracking the Pandemic in Real Time: Administrative Micro Data in Business Cycles Enters the Spotlight	20