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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India	116
Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden	70
Revolutionized life: long-term effects of childhood exposure to persecution on human capital and marital sorting	47
The expanded Child Tax Credit and economic wellbeing of low-income families	41
The motherhood wage and income traps	38
Health and aging before and after retirement	34
Analysing tax-benefit reforms in the Netherlands using structural models and natural experiments	33
Unwanted daughters: the unintended consequences of a ban on sex-selective abortions on the educational attainment of women	29
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated	29
Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes	27
Long-term barriers to global fertility convergence	23
Something in the pipe: the Flint water crisis and health at birth	23
The unintended effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders on abortions	23
Born or bred? The roles of nature and nurture for intergenerational persistence in labour market outcomes	23
The effect of linguistic proximity on the labour market outcomes of the asylum population	22
The effects of an epidemic on prenatal investments, childhood mortality and health of surviving children	22
Do elections accelerate the COVID-19 pandemic?	20
The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers	20
The chips are down: the influence of family on children’s trust formation	20
Remote work, wages, and hours worked in the United States	17
Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health	17
Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types?	16
Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from India	15
Migration and informational autocracy	15
Life after loss: the causal effect of parental death on daughters’ fertility	15

Time use and happiness: US evidence across three decades	14
Age and hiring for high school graduate Hispanics in the United States	14
An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program	13
The Feminisation U, cultural norms, and the plough	13
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China	13
Explaining third birth patterns in India: causal effects of sibling sex composition	12
Who’s afraid of immigration? The effect of economic preferences on tolerance	12
Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective	12
Post-marital residence and female wellbeing	12
Reopening schools in a context of low COVID-19 contagion: consequences for teachers, students and their parents	12
Gendered university major choice: the role of intergenerational transmission	12
Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the USA, 1960–2020	12
Religiously inspired baby boom: evidence from Georgia	11
Baby commodity booms? The impact of commodity shocks on fertility decisions and outcomes	11
Hukou reform and labor market outcomes of urban natives in China	11
Do not shut up and do dribble: social media and TV consumption	10
Sexual identity, poverty, and utilization of government services	10
Survival of the literati: Social status and reproduction in Ming–Qing China	10
Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution	10
Can conflict affect individuals’ preferences for income redistribution?	9
Migration control policy and parent–child separation among migrant families: evidence from China	9
Marriage and divorce: the role of unemployment insurance	9
Sibling correlations and intergenerational mobility across immigrant groups	9
Domestic violence perception and gender stereotypes	9
Do all roads lead to the same destination? Proximity to abortion providers, abortions, and their conditions in Portugal	8
Population dynamics of welfare stigma: welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up	8
Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?	8
Disruptions to early childhood preschool services during a pandemic: Evidence from India	8
Middle-run educational impacts of comprehensive early childhood interventions: evidence from a pioneer program in Chile	8
Refugee influx and school enrollment among native youths in Jordan	8
Changes in children’s time use during periods of financial hardship	7
The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle	7
The effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the demand for health care and on mortality: evidence from COVID-19 in Scandinavia	7
Assimilation of marriage migrants and the role of language: evidence from South Korea	7
Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia	7
Cannabis and tobacco: substitutes and complements	7
From the lockdown to the new normal: individual mobility and local labor market characteristics following the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	6
The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates	6
High-speed internet and socioemotional wellbeing in adolescence and youth	6
The effect of Ukrainian refugees on the local labour markets: the case of Czechia	6
Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia	6
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes	6
The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study	6
“Votes for Women” on the edge of urbanization	6
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants	6
The impact of 2020 French municipal elections on the spread of COVID-19	6
Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China	6
Behind the child penalty: understanding what contributes to the labour market costs of motherhood	5
The winter depression: coal heating and mental health in China	5
The female happiness paradox	5

Persistent effects of a conditional cash transfer: a case of empowering women through Kanyashree in India	5
2022 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Luca Bonacini, Giovanni Gallo, and Sergio Scicchitano	5
Relocating or reclassified? A new perspective on China’s urban population growth	5
The different effects of Covid on children with parents in teleworkable and non-teleworkable occupations	5
The effects of school shootings on risky behavior, health, and human capital	5
Immigration and economic mobility	5
Pension reforms, longer working horizons, and absence from work	5
Does far-right populism affect immigrants’ working conditions?	5
Schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries	5
Social assimilation and immigrants’ labour market outcomes	4
Optimal interventions in networks during a pandemic	4
Acknowledgement to editorial collaborators	4
Demographic change and the rate of return in pay-as-you-go pension systems	4
Managing the impact of climate on migration: evidence from Mexico	4
Gendered effects of early childhood weather shocks on locus of control: evidence from 28 agricultural countries	4
Female chief officers and crime: evidence from England and Wales	4
The long-term effect of wartime social networks: evidence from African American Civil War veterans, 1870–1900	4
Acknowledgement to editorial collaborators	4
Female breadwinning and domestic abuse: evidence from Australia	3
Long-term unemployment subsidies and middle-aged disadvantaged workers’ health	3
Asian entrepreneurship in the coronavirus era	3
Financial education as a complement to public pensions: the case of naive individuals	3
Geography, landownership inequality, and literacy: historical evidence from Greek regions	3
The effects of paid family leave—does it help fathers’ health, too?	3
No man is an island: trust, trustworthiness, and social networks among refugees in Germany	3
The safest time to fly: pandemic response in the era of Fox News	3
Economic geography of contagion: a study of COVID-19 outbreak in India	3
Heaven can wait: future tense and religiosity	3
Inside the NBA Bubble: how Black players performed better without fans	3
The impact of pension reform on employment, retirement, and disability insurance claims	3
Language lesson learned—foreign-origin teachers and their effect on students’ language skills	3
Household impacts of child health shocks	3
Troubled in school: does maternal involvement matter for adolescents?	3
The impact of repeated mass antigen testing for COVID-19 on the prevalence of the disease	3
Immigration, wages, and employment under informal labor markets	3
Social security reforms, capital accumulation, and welfare: A notional defined contribution system vs a modified PAYG system	3
Policies for young adults with reduced work capacity. Labour market impact in Sweden and Norway	3
Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap	3
Housing wealth and fertility: evidence from China	3
Health benefits of reducing aircraft pollution: evidence from changes in flight paths	3
Conscription and educational outcomes	3
COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed	2
Healthcare spillovers of spousal health shocks in China: evidence from administrative data	2
Delay in childbearing and the evolution of fertility rates	2
Suffering and prejudice: do negative emotions predict immigration concerns?	2
School closures and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	2
Coronagraben in Switzerland: culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19	2
Does urbanization empower women? Evidence from India	2
Baby steps to success? The impact of paid maternity leave on children’s long-term outcomes in the United States	2
A twenty-first century of solitude? Time alone and together in the United States	2
Sexual orientation and earnings: a meta-analysis 2012–2020	2
Consequences of war: Japan’s demographic transition and the marriage market	2
The impact of police violence on migration: evidence from Venezuela	2
From pink collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms	2
Social integration of Syrian refugees and their intention to stay in Germany	2
Comment on “Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden”	2
International migration and the religious schooling of children in the home country: evidence from Bangladesh	2
Friends in the village:do they matter for women’s involvement in household decisions?	2