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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from India	55
An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program	52
Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India	35
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated	33
Do not shut up and do dribble: social media and TV consumption	30
The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle	26
Disruptions to early childhood preschool services during a pandemic: Evidence from India	24
The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes	20
Household impacts of child health shocks	17
Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution	17
Can conflict affect individuals’ preferences for income redistribution?	17
International migration and the religious schooling of children in the home country: evidence from Bangladesh	16
No man is an island: trust, trustworthiness, and social networks among refugees in Germany	16
2022 Kuznets Prize Awarded to Luca Bonacini, Giovanni Gallo, and Sergio Scicchitano	16
From pink collar to lab coat: cultural persistence and diffusion of socialist gender norms	16
Immigration, wages, and employment under informal labor markets	15
Health benefits of reducing aircraft pollution: evidence from changes in flight paths	15
Troubled in school: does maternal involvement matter for adolescents?	15
Housing wealth and fertility: evidence from China	14
Improved estimates of child malnutrition trends in Bangladesh using remote-sensed data	14
Female breadwinning and domestic abuse: evidence from Australia	14
The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution: evidence from nineteenth-century France	14
Estimating treatment effects of the one-child policy: a self-report approach	13
Do subways improve labor market outcomes for low-skilled workers?	13
The supply of foreign talent: how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants	12

Early-life economic conditions and old-age male mortality: evidence from historical county-level bank deposit data	12
Male wage inequality and characteristics of “early mover” marriages	12
Optimal sequential fertility choices under discriminatory preferences	10
Eastward enlargements of the European Union, transitional arrangements and self-employment	10
Higher education and the income-fertility nexus	10
Silence breaking: sex crime reporting in the MeToo era	10
The minimum wage and cross-community crime disparities	10
Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types?	9
The impact of global warming on obesity	9
Impact of an extension of maternity leave on infant health	9
Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys	9
Age and hiring for high school graduate Hispanics in the United States	9
The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China	9
Hidden schooling: endogenous measurement error and bias in education and labor market experience	9
Born or bred? The roles of nature and nurture for intergenerational persistence in labour market outcomes	9
Religiously inspired baby boom: evidence from Georgia	9
Mandatory retirement savings in the presence of an informal labor market	9
Reopening schools in a context of low COVID-19 contagion: consequences for teachers, students and their parents	8
The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates	8
Understanding the demographics of the opioid overdose death crisis	8
Sexual identity, poverty, and utilization of government services	8
Hukou reform and labor market outcomes of urban natives in China	8
“Votes for Women” on the edge of urbanization	8
Social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants	8
The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China	8
Who’s afraid of immigration? The effect of economic preferences on tolerance	8
Persistent effects of a conditional cash transfer: a case of empowering women through Kanyashree in India	8
Female chief officers and crime: evidence from England and Wales	7
Language lesson learned—foreign-origin teachers and their effect on students’ language skills	7
Too much of a good thing? Using tax incentives to stimulate dual-earner couples	7
Friends in the village:do they matter for women’s involvement in household decisions?	7
The impact of pension reform on employment, retirement, and disability insurance claims	7
Does urbanization empower women? Evidence from India	7
Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India	7
The female happiness paradox	7
Working from home, commuting, and gender	6
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
Networks abroad and culture: global individual-level evidence	6
What makes a classmate a peer? Examining which peers matter in NYC elementary schools	6
Short- and medium-run impacts of preschool education: evidence from state pre-K programs	6
Changes in parental gender preference in the USA: evidence from 1850 to 2019	5
The effect of pandemic crises on fertility	5
Old-age support policy and fertility with strategic bequest motives	5
Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?	5
Care for elderly parents: do children cooperate?	5
Exposure to refugee camps and voting behavior: a spatial analysis	5
Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave	5
The impact of timing of in utero drought shocks on birth outcomes in rural households: evidence from Sierra Leone	5
Age diversity and aggregate productivity	5

Mothers and fathers: education, co-residence, and child health	5
From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market outcomes	5
The seen and unseen: the unintended impact of a conditional cash transfer program on prenatal sex selection	5
In utero exposure to violence and child health in Iraq	5
Material and social deprivation among one-person households: the role of gender	5
Correction to: Migration and experienced utility of left-behind parents: evidence from rural China	5
The impact of a local human capital shock: evidence from World War II veterans	4
Health shocks and spousal labor supply: an international perspective	4
Health and aging before and after retirement	4
Lithium-ion batteries and fertility in Africa	4
Happy citizens trust their rulers	4
Big Five personality traits and sex	4
The expanded Child Tax Credit and economic wellbeing of low-income families	4
On the role of social security systems in a non-unitary discounting model	4
Less for more? Cuts to child benefits, family adjustments, and long-run child outcomes in larger families	4
The effect of prenatal exposure to Ramadan on human capital: evidence from Turkey	4
The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers	4
Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health	4
Long-term barriers to global fertility convergence	4
Higher education expansion and gender norms: evidence from China	4
Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision	4
Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing	4
Assimilation of marriage migrants and the role of language: evidence from South Korea	3
Gendered university major choice: the role of intergenerational transmission	3
Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia	3
Does cultural identity influence the probability of employment during economic crises?	3
Baby steps to success? The impact of paid maternity leave on children’s long-term outcomes in the United States	3
Survival of the literati: Social status and reproduction in Ming–Qing China	3
Does far-right populism affect immigrants’ working conditions?	3
Population dynamics of welfare stigma: welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up	3
The impact of parents’ health shocks on children’s health behaviors	3
The decision to flee: exploring gender-specific determinants of international refugee migration	3
Forced migration and food crises	3
Fighting abuse with prescription tracking: mandatory drug monitoring and intimate partner violence	3
Suffering and prejudice: do negative emotions predict immigration concerns?	3
Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China	3
Labor market sorting and the gender pay gap revisited	3
The Feminisation U, cultural norms, and the plough	3
The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study	3
Health externalities to labor productivity and optimal policies with endogenous fertility, labor, and longevity	3
Healthcare spillovers of spousal health shocks in China: evidence from administrative data	3
The effect of education on overall fertility	2
Cultural assimilation and segregation in heterogeneous societies	2
Preventing reforming unequally	2
Evaluating the effects of a massive rural school expansion in pre-reform China	2
A twenty-first century of solitude? Time alone and together in the United States	2
Growing up in ethnic enclaves: language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children	2
Does testing young children influence educational attainment and wellbeing?	2
Natural selection and Neanderthal extinction in a Malthusian economy	2
Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile	2
Hospital supply and infant mortality: Evidence from Islamic political representation in Turkey	2
Social isolation, health dynamics, and mortality: evidence across 21 European countries	2
Expenditure response to patient cost-sharing: evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme	2
Empowering women through multifaceted interventions: long-term evidence from a double matching design	2
Sexual orientation stereotypes and job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK	2
The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences	2
Blowin’ in the wind of an invisible killer: long-term exposure to ozone and respiratory mortality in the USA	2
Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development	2
Social integration of Syrian refugees and their intention to stay in Germany	2
Enhancing information to improve outcomes: the impact of home visiting programs on maternal health	2