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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from India	118
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India	73
An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program	49
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated	45
Do not shut up and do dribble: social media and TV consumption	44
The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle	42
Disruptions to early childhood preschool services during a pandemic: Evidence from India	36
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes	29
Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution	29
Can conflict affect individuals’ preferences for income redistribution?	27
Immigration, wages, and employment under informal labor markets	26
Female breadwinning and domestic abuse: evidence from Australia	25
2022 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Luca Bonacini, Giovanni Gallo, and Sergio Scicchitano	24
International migration and the religious schooling of children in the home country: evidence from Bangladesh	24
Coronagraben in Switzerland: culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19	23
Acknowledgement to editorial collaborators	20
Troubled in school: does maternal involvement matter for adolescents?	19
Household impacts of child health shocks	19
Health benefits of reducing aircraft pollution: evidence from changes in flight paths	18
Housing wealth and fertility: evidence from China	16
No man is an island: trust, trustworthiness, and social networks among refugees in Germany	15
From pink collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms	14
Early-life economic conditions and old-age male mortality: evidence from historical county-level bank deposit data	13
Do subways improve labor market outcomes for low-skilled workers?	13
The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution: evidence from nineteenth-century France	13

Improved estimates of child malnutrition trends in Bangladesh using remote-sensed data	13
Optimal lockdown and social welfare	13
Silence breaking: sex crime reporting in the MeToo era	12
The supply of foreign talent: how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants	12
Male wage inequality and characteristics of “early mover” marriages	12
The minimum wage and cross-community crime disparities	12
Local mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	12
Higher education and the income-fertility nexus	11
Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents: evidence from rural China	11
Hidden schooling: endogenous measurement error and bias in education and labor market experience	11
Optimal sequential fertility choices under discriminatory preferences	11
Eastward enlargements of the European Union, transitional arrangements and self-employment	11
Impact of an extension of maternity leave on infant health	11
The impact of global warming on obesity	10
Mandatory retirement savings in the presence of an informal labor market	10
Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys	10
The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China	10
Age and hiring for high school graduate Hispanics in the United States	9
Religiously inspired baby boom: evidence from Georgia	9
Reopening schools in a context of low COVID-19 contagion: consequences for teachers, students and their parents	9
Who’s afraid of immigration? The effect of economic preferences on tolerance	8
“Votes for Women” on the edge of urbanization	8
Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types?	8
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China	8
Born or bred? The roles of nature and nurture for intergenerational persistence in labour market outcomes	8
Hukou reform and labor market outcomes of urban natives in China	8
The female happiness paradox	7
Persistent effects of a conditional cash transfer: a case of empowering women through Kanyashree in India	7
The impact of pension reform on employment, retirement, and disability insurance claims	7
Sexual identity, poverty, and utilization of government services	7
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants	7
Friends in the village:do they matter for women’s involvement in household decisions?	7
Immigration and economic mobility	7
Language lesson learned—foreign-origin teachers and their effect on students’ language skills	7
The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates	7
The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean	6
Networks abroad and culture: global individual-level evidence	6
Threat beyond the border: Kim Jong-un’s nuclear tests and China’s rural migration	6
The seen and unseen: the unintended impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection	6
Changes in parental gender preference in the USA: evidence from 1850 to 2019	6
Age diversity and aggregate productivity	6
Does urbanization empower women? Evidence from India	6
Working from home, commuting, and gender	6
Female chief officers and crime: evidence from England and Wales	6
Exposure to refugee camps and voting behavior: a spatial analysis	6
From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market outcomes	6
The effect of pandemic crises on fertility	6
Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave	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	5

Care for elderly parents: do children cooperate?	5
Less for more? Cuts to child benefits, family adjustments, and long-run child outcomes in larger families	5
Mothers and fathers: education, co-residence, and child health	5
Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?	5
Lithium-ion batteries and fertility in Africa	5
Old-age support policy and fertility with strategic bequest motives	5
In utero exposure to violence and child health in Iraq	5
The impact of timing of in utero drought shocks on birth outcomes in rural households: evidence from Sierra Leone	5
Material and social deprivation among one-person households: the role of gender	5
Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective	4
Big Five personality traits and sex	4
The effect of prenatal exposure to Ramadan on human capital: evidence from Turkey	4
Long-term barriers to global fertility convergence	4
Baby commodity booms? The impact of commodity shocks on fertility decisions and outcomes	4
Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health	4
Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision	4
Higher education expansion and gender norms: evidence from China	4
The expanded Child Tax Credit and economic wellbeing of low-income families	4
The impact of a local human capital shock: evidence from World War II veterans	4
Health and aging before and after retirement	4
Population dynamics of welfare stigma: welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up	3
The impact of parents’ health shocks on children’s health behaviors	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
The Feminisation U, cultural norms, and the plough	3
Changes in children’s time use during periods of financial hardship	3
The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study	3
The decision to flee: exploring gender-specific determinants of international refugee migration	3
Suffering and prejudice: do negative emotions predict immigration concerns?	3
Assimilation of marriage migrants and the role of language: evidence from South Korea	3
The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers	3
Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia	3
Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China	3
Baby steps to success? The impact of paid maternity leave on children’s long-term outcomes in the United States	3
Does far-right populism affect immigrants’ working conditions?	3
Gendered university major choice: the role of intergenerational transmission	3
Growing up in ethnic enclaves: language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children	2
Hospital supply and infant mortality: Evidence from Islamic political representation in Turkey	2
Social integration of Syrian refugees and their intention to stay in Germany	2
Social isolation, health dynamics, and mortality: evidence across 21 European countries	2
Empowering women through multifaceted interventions: long-term evidence from a double matching design	2
The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences	2
Cultural assimilation and segregation in heterogeneous societies	2
Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile	2
Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development	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
The effect of education on overall fertility	2
Social externalities, endogenous childcare costs, and fertility choice	2
Does testing young children influence educational attainment and wellbeing?	2
Sexual orientation stereotypes and job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK	2
Evaluating the effects of a massive rural school expansion in pre-reform China	2
Enhancing information to improve outcomes: the impact of home visiting programs on maternal health	2
Health externalities to labor productivity and optimal policies with endogenous fertility, labor, and longevity	2
I am a survivor, keep on surviving: early-life exposure to conflict and subjective survival probabilities in adult life	2
Social security, economic growth, and social welfare in an overlapping generation model with idiosyncratic TFP shock and heterogeneous workers	2
Preventing reforming unequally	2
Natural selection and Neanderthal extinction in a Malthusian economy	2