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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program	48
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated	47
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India	47
Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from India	31
Do not shut up and do dribble: social media and TV consumption	30
Disruptions to early childhood preschool services during a pandemic: Evidence from India	27
The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle	27
Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution	25
Can conflict affect individuals’ preferences for income redistribution?	25
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes	25
International migration and the religious schooling of children in the home country: evidence from Bangladesh	24
From pink collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms	21
Immigration, wages, and employment under informal labor markets	19
Female breadwinning and domestic abuse: evidence from Australia	19
2022 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Luca Bonacini, Giovanni Gallo, and Sergio Scicchitano	16
Troubled in school: does maternal involvement matter for adolescents?	15
Acknowledgement to editorial collaborators	15
Household impacts of child health shocks	14
The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution: evidence from nineteenth-century France	13
Coronagraben in Switzerland: culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19	13
Optimal lockdown and social welfare	13
No man is an island: trust, trustworthiness, and social networks among refugees in Germany	13
Health benefits of reducing aircraft pollution: evidence from changes in flight paths	13
Improved estimates of child malnutrition trends in Bangladesh using remote-sensed data	13
Housing wealth and fertility: evidence from China	13

Do subways improve labor market outcomes for low-skilled workers?	12
Male wage inequality and characteristics of “early mover” marriages	12
Early-life economic conditions and old-age male mortality: evidence from historical county-level bank deposit data	12
The supply of foreign talent: how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants	12
Silence breaking: sex crime reporting in the MeToo era	12
The minimum wage and cross-community crime disparities	11
Higher education and the income-fertility nexus	10
Eastward enlargements of the European Union, transitional arrangements and self-employment	10
Hidden schooling: endogenous measurement error and bias in education and labor market experience	10
Impact of an extension of maternity leave on infant health	10
Optimal sequential fertility choices under discriminatory preferences	10
The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China	9
The impact of global warming on obesity	9
Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents: evidence from rural China	9
Mandatory retirement savings in the presence of an informal labor market	9
Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys	9
Who’s afraid of immigration? The effect of economic preferences on tolerance	8
Religiously inspired baby boom: evidence from Georgia	8
Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types?	8
Reopening schools in a context of low COVID-19 contagion: consequences for teachers, students and their parents	8
Age and hiring for high school graduate Hispanics in the United States	8
The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates	7
Understanding the demographics of the opioid overdose death crisis	7
Born or bred? The roles of nature and nurture for intergenerational persistence in labour market outcomes	7
Sexual identity, poverty, and utilization of government services	7
Friends in the village:do they matter for women’s involvement in household decisions?	7
Persistent effects of a conditional cash transfer: a case of empowering women through Kanyashree in India	7
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China	7
Immigration and economic mobility	7
The female happiness paradox	7
Female chief officers and crime: evidence from England and Wales	7
“Votes for Women” on the edge of urbanization	7
Hukou reform and labor market outcomes of urban natives in China	7
The impact of pension reform on employment, retirement, and disability insurance claims	7
Language lesson learned—foreign-origin teachers and their effect on students’ language skills	7
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants	7
Estimating poverty for refugees in data-scarce contexts: an application of cross-survey imputation	6
Threat beyond the border: Kim Jong-un’s nuclear tests and China’s rural migration	6
Working from home, commuting, and gender	6
The seen and unseen: the unintended impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection	6
The effect of pandemic crises on fertility	6
Changes in parental gender preference in the USA: evidence from 1850 to 2019	6
Networks abroad and culture: global individual-level evidence	6
Does urbanization empower women? Evidence from India	6
Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave	5
From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market outcomes	5
In utero exposure to violence and child health in Iraq	5
The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean	5
What makes a classmate a peer? Examining which peers matter in NYC elementary schools	5
Correction to: Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents: evidence from rural China	5

Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?	5
Exposure to refugee camps and voting behavior: a spatial analysis	5
Short- and medium-run impacts of preschool education: evidence from state pre-K programs	5
Mothers and fathers: education, co-residence, and child health	5
Old-age support policy and fertility with strategic bequest motives	5
Care for elderly parents: do children cooperate?	4
Lithium-ion batteries and fertility in Africa	4
The impact of a local human capital shock: evidence from World War II veterans	4
Less for more? Cuts to child benefits, family adjustments, and long-run child outcomes in larger families	4
Age diversity and aggregate productivity	4
Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing	4
The effect of prenatal exposure to Ramadan on human capital: evidence from Turkey	4
Material and social deprivation among one-person households: the role of gender	4
The impact of timing of in utero drought shocks on birth outcomes in rural households: evidence from Sierra Leone	4
Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision	4
Big Five personality traits and sex	4
Long-term barriers to global fertility convergence	3
Population dynamics of welfare stigma: welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up	3
Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia	3
The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers	3
Gendered university major choice: the role of intergenerational transmission	3
Health and aging before and after retirement	3
Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective	3
The expanded Child Tax Credit and economic wellbeing of low-income families	3
Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China	3
Higher education expansion and gender norms: evidence from China	3
Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health	3
On the role of social security systems in a non-unitary discounting model	3
Changes in children’s time use during periods of financial hardship	3
Survival of the literati: Social status and reproduction in Ming–Qing China	3
The Feminisation U, cultural norms, and the plough	3
Health externalities to labor productivity and optimal policies with endogenous fertility, labor, and longevity	2
The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study	2
Does far-right populism affect immigrants’ working conditions?	2
Social integration of Syrian refugees and their intention to stay in Germany	2
Empowering women through multifaceted interventions: long-term evidence from a double matching design	2
Blowin’ in the wind of an invisible killer: long-term exposure to ozone and respiratory mortality in the USA	2
Expenditure response to patient cost-sharing: evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme	2
A twenty-first century of solitude? Time alone and together in the United States	2
Suffering and prejudice: do negative emotions predict immigration concerns?	2
The decision to flee: exploring gender-specific determinants of international refugee migration	2
Social isolation, health dynamics, and mortality: evidence across 21 European countries	2
Does testing young children influence educational attainment and wellbeing?	2
The effect of education on overall fertility	2
Fighting abuse with prescription tracking: mandatory drug monitoring and intimate partner violence	2
Hospital supply and infant mortality: Evidence from Islamic political representation in Turkey	2
Baby steps to success? The impact of paid maternity leave on children’s long-term outcomes in the United States	2
Healthcare spillovers of spousal health shocks in China: evidence from administrative data	2
Assimilation of marriage migrants and the role of language: evidence from South Korea	2
The impact of parents’ health shocks on children’s health behaviors	2
Growing up in ethnic enclaves: language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children	2
Enhancing information to improve outcomes: the impact of home visiting programs on maternal health	2
Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development	2
Evaluating the effects of a massive rural school expansion in pre-reform China	2