OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Population Economics is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India	62
An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program	54
Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from India	41
Do not shut up and do dribble: social media and TV consumption	40
The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle	29
Disruptions to early childhood preschool services during a pandemic: Evidence from India	26
Can conflict affect individuals’ preferences for income redistribution?	22
From pink collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms	20
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes	20
Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution	20
Troubled in school: does maternal involvement matter for adolescents?	19
2022 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Luca Bonacini, Giovanni Gallo, and Sergio Scicchitano	19
Migration, household services, and urban female labor supply: evidence from China	18
No man is an island: trust, trustworthiness, and social networks among refugees in Germany	18
Immigration, wages, and employment under informal labor markets	18
International migration and the religious schooling of children in the home country: evidence from Bangladesh	18
Fertility, son preference, and the disappearing gender gap in literacy/numeracy tests	17
Health benefits of reducing aircraft pollution: evidence from changes in flight paths	17
Female breadwinning and domestic abuse: evidence from Australia	17
The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution: evidence from nineteenth-century France	16
Household impacts of child health shocks	16
Early-life economic conditions and old-age male mortality: evidence from historical county-level bank deposit data	14
Do subways improve labor market outcomes for low-skilled workers?	14
Estimating treatment effects of the one-child policy: a self-report approach	13
The supply of foreign talent: how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants	13

Improved estimates of child malnutrition trends in Bangladesh using remote-sensed data	12
Eastward enlargements of the European Union, transitional arrangements and self-employment	11
Male wage inequality and characteristics of “early mover” marriages	11
Hidden schooling: endogenous measurement error and bias in education and labor market experience	11
The minimum wage and cross-community crime disparities	11
Optimal sequential fertility choices under discriminatory preferences	11
Silence breaking: sex crime reporting in the MeToo era	11
Higher education and the income-fertility nexus	11
The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China	10
Born or bred? The roles of nature and nurture for intergenerational persistence in labour market outcomes	10
Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys	10
The impact of global warming on obesity	10
Religiously inspired baby boom: evidence from Georgia	10
Mandatory retirement savings in the presence of an informal labor market	10
Impact of an extension of maternity leave on infant health	10
Age and hiring for high school graduate Hispanics in the United States	10
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China	9
Who’s afraid of immigration? The effect of economic preferences on tolerance	9
“Votes for Women” on the edge of urbanization	9
Reopening schools in a context of low COVID-19 contagion: consequences for teachers, students and their parents	9
Hukou reform and labor market outcomes of urban natives in China	9
Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types?	9
The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates	8
Language lesson learned—foreign-origin teachers and their effect on students’ language skills	8
The female happiness paradox	8
Persistent effects of a conditional cash transfer: a case of empowering women through Kanyashree in India	8
Understanding the demographics of the opioid overdose death crisis	8
The impact of pension reform on employment, retirement, and disability insurance claims	8
Sexual identity, poverty, and utilization of government services	8
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants	8
Female chief officers and crime: evidence from England and Wales	8
Threat beyond the border: Kim Jong-un’s nuclear tests and China’s rural migration	7
Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India	7
What makes a classmate a peer? Examining which peers matter in NYC elementary schools	7
Too much of a good thing? Using tax incentives to stimulate dual-earner couples	7
Short- and medium-run impacts of preschool education: evidence from state pre-K programs	7
Friends in the village:do they matter for women’s involvement in household decisions?	7
Does urbanization empower women? Evidence from India	7
Exposure to refugee camps and voting behavior: a spatial analysis	6
The seen and unseen: the unintended impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection	6
Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts: an application of cross-survey imputation	6
Correction to: Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents: evidence from rural China	6
Networks abroad and culture: global individual-level evidence	6
The effect of pandemic crises on fertility	6
Counting missing women: a reconciliation of flow and stock measures	6
Working from home, commuting, and gender	6
Changes in parental gender preference in the USA: evidence from 1850 to 2019	6
From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market outcomes	6
Are demographic developments undermining intergenerational compacts?	6
Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave	6

Less for more? Cuts to child benefits, family adjustments, and long-run child outcomes in larger families	6
Happy citizens trust their rulers	5
In utero exposure to violence and child health in Iraq	5
The effect of prenatal exposure to Ramadan on human capital: evidence from Turkey	5
Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?	5
Material and social deprivation among one-person households: the role of gender	5
Mothers and fathers: education, co-residence, and child health	5
Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing	5
The impact of timing of in utero drought shocks on birth outcomes in rural households: evidence from Sierra Leone	5
The impact of a local human capital shock: evidence from World War II veterans	5
Lithium-ion batteries and fertility in Africa	5
Age diversity and aggregate productivity	5
Old-age support policy and fertility with strategic bequest motives	5
Care for elderly parents: do children cooperate?	5
Family foster care or residential care: the impact of home environment on children raised in state care	5
Long-term barriers to global fertility convergence	4
The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers	4
Assimilation of marriage migrants and the role of language: evidence from South Korea	4
Gendered university major choice: the role of intergenerational transmission	4
Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health	4
Health and aging before and after retirement	4
Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective	4
The Feminisation U, cultural norms, and the plough	4
The impact of parents’ health shocks on children’s health behaviors	4
Big Five personality traits and sex	4
Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision	4
The expanded Child Tax Credit and economic wellbeing of low-income families	4
Are parents an obstacle to gender-atypical occupational choices?	4
Population dynamics of welfare stigma: welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up	4
Labor market sorting and the gender pay gap revisited	4
Higher education expansion and gender norms: evidence from China	4
On the role of social security systems in a non-unitary discounting model	4
The decision to flee: exploring gender-specific determinants of international refugee migration	3
Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China	3
A twenty-first century of solitude? Time alone and together in the United States	3
Baby steps to success? The impact of paid maternity leave on children’s long-term outcomes in the United States	3
Expenditure response to patient cost-sharing: evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme	3
Health externalities to labor productivity and optimal policies with endogenous fertility, labor, and longevity	3
The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study	3
Suffering and prejudice: do negative emotions predict immigration concerns?	3
Forced migration and food crises	3
Fighting abuse with prescription tracking: mandatory drug monitoring and intimate partner violence	3
Growing up in ethnic enclaves: language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children	3
Does far-right populism affect immigrants’ working conditions?	3
Survival of the literati: Social status and reproduction in Ming–Qing China	3
Healthcare spillovers of spousal health shocks in China: evidence from administrative data	3
Social integration of Syrian refugees and their intention to stay in Germany	3
Social isolation, health dynamics, and mortality: evidence across 21 European countries	3
Does cultural identity influence the probability of employment during economic crises?	3
The effects of an epidemic on prenatal investments, childhood mortality and health of surviving children	2
Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile	2
Social externalities, endogenous childcare costs, and fertility choice	2
Empowering women through multifaceted interventions: long-term evidence from a double matching design	2
Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development	2
Strategic responses to disparities in spousal desired fertility: experimental evidence from rural Tanzania	2
Robots, routine jobs, and rural migrant workers: evidence from China	2
Social security, economic growth, and social welfare in an overlapping generation model with idiosyncratic TFP shock and heterogeneous workers	2
The motherhood wage and income traps	2
The winter depression: coal heating and mental health in China	2
Preventing reforming unequally	2
Enhancing information to improve outcomes: the impact of home visiting programs on maternal health	2
Hospital supply and infant mortality: Evidence from Islamic political representation in Turkey	2
Blowin’ in the wind of an invisible killer: long-term exposure to ozone and respiratory mortality in the USA	2
Cultural assimilation and segregation in heterogeneous societies	2
The different effects of Covid on children with parents in teleworkable and non-teleworkable occupations	2
Unwanted daughters: the unintended consequences of a ban on sex-selective abortions on the educational attainment of women	2
The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences	2
Sexual orientation stereotypes and job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK	2
The effect of education on overall fertility	2
Evaluating the effects of a massive rural school expansion in pre-reform China	2
Tiger moms: mother’s education and investments in children’s human capital in China	2
Natural selection and Neanderthal extinction in a Malthusian economy	2
Does testing young children influence educational attainment and wellbeing?	2
Remote work, wages, and hours worked in the United States	2