OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Development Economics is 4. 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
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The remittance‐growth nexus in leading remittance‐earning nations, controlling regulatory quality, trade openness, energy use, and financial expansion	43
Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan	39
Government spending and the exchange rate: Exploring this relationship in Mexico using a cointegrated system of equations	33
Conditional cash transfers tools to combat child labor: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Costa Rica	30
A good mix against ultra‐poverty? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in Bangladesh	28
Special economic zones, export status, and firms’ productivity: Theory and evidence from China	26
Empowering women through microcredit in Djibouti	23
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Does Monetary Policy Affect Urban Food Inflation? Some Evidence From India	21
Climate threat and price stability: A case study of Belize	21
Correction to “Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan”	21
Does Fiscal Efficiency Affect Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence Based on Spatial Panel Data Models	20
Teaching in the right context: Textbook supply program, language, and learning	19
Why do some African firms export? The role of regional economic communities?	19
The effect of capital structure on the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions: A meta‐analysis	19
Innovation‐adjusted economic complexity and growth: Do patent flows reveal enhanced economic capabilities?	18
Research collaboration in development economics	17
Issue Information	17
Has the information and communication technology sector become the engine of China’s economic growth?	17
From cultivation to culture: Wheat farming and sex selection in China	16
“Rising Women”: Evidence From China's Agricultural Mechanization	16
Gender inequality, corruption, and economic development	16
Inequality in Africa: Does injustice matter?	16

Does Mobile Payment Raise the Poverty‐Alleviation Resilience of Chinese Households?	15
Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China	15
Impact of financial inclusion on household welfare in Liberia: A gendered perspective	15
Rural development in the digital age: Does information and communication technology adoption contribute to credit access and income growth in rural China?	15
From non‐renewables to renewables and high‐tech production: The impact of natural wealth and technology on ecological load capacity in sub‐Saharan Africa	14
The impact of financial inclusion on rural–urban households welfare inequality in Ghana: A decomposition analysis	14
Corruption, Land, and Housing: The Cleaning and Chilling Effects of China's Anti‐Corruption Campaign	14
Beyond the scenery: Understanding the impact of rural tourism development on household consumption in China	13
Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?	12
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America	11
Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics	11
Drain on your health: Sanitation externalities from dirty drains in India	11
Correction of China's income inequality for missing top incomes	11
Crime, elections, and political competition	11
Fruitless or Fruitful? Examining Ghana's Agricultural Inputs Subsidy and Household Welfare	10
The effects of free primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A difference‐in‐differences approach	10
Aspirations and Investments in Agricultural Risk Mitigation Strategies	10
Beyond Competitiveness: Is Productivity Everything?	10
Economic transition, dualism and informality inIndia: Nature and patterns of household‐level transitions	10
The Bias of Chinese Agricultural Enterprises’ Export: Profit Margin or Productivity?	10
Oil discovery, boom‐bust cycle and manufacturing slowdown: Evidence from a large industry level dataset	10
Impact of global value chains on total factor productivity: The case of Indian manufacturing	10
Parental aspirations and child private‐school enrollment: Evidence from India	10
Equal opportunity and poverty reduction: How should aid be allocated?	9
How do small formal and informal firms in Egypt compare? An analysis of firm characteristics and implications for formalization efforts	9
Poverty and vulnerability transitions in Myanmar: An analysis using synthetic panels	9
One‐child policy and marriage market in China	9
A Novel Decomposition Framework for Agricultural Growth Accounting: A Global Supply Chain Perspective	9
Local droughts and income risk among Thai households	9
Selection and performance in post‐compulsory education	9
Exports, skills, and wage inequality in Kenya's manufacturing firms	9
(En‐)‘lightening’ children: Assessing the impacts of access to electricity on learning achievement levels	9
Household income mobility in India, 1993–2011	9
Female labor force participation in Egypt and Palestine: An age–period–cohort analysis*	8
“Rely (only) on the rigorous evidence” is bad advice	8
Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia: The gravity model	8
Does intrahousehold bargaining power enhance women's marital satisfaction? A perspective from two competing forces in China	8
Financial inclusion and education: An empirical study of financial inclusion in the face of the pandemic emergency due to Covid‐19 in Latin America and the Caribbean	8
Does democracy stimulate remittances?	8
Informality, foreign ownership and bribery in developing countries	8
Do chairmen with China's Great Famine experience in early‐life affect firm tax avoidance activities?	8
Can world heritage sites boost sales in non‐tourism firms? The role of visibility	8
Unveiling complexities: Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in China	8
Social networks and internal migration in China: A spatial autoregressive model	7
The impact of a disaster recovery policy on health status of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake victims: Evidence from a natural experiment	7
Bribery and firm survival in Vietnam: Moderating effects of market competition, credit, and institutional constraints	7
Trade liberalization, wilful credit defaults and bank bribery in a credit‐constrained economy	7
Modeling the dynamics of oil and agricultural commodity price nexus in linear and nonlinear frameworks: A case of emerging economy	7
Impacts of climate change on food utilization in Nepal	7
Connecting the fields: How ICT improve agricultural productivity in sub‐Saharan Africa	7

Does It Help or Hinder? The Impact of Population Aging on Industrial Structure Upgrading in Transition Economic Systems	7
Assessment of the effects of targeted poverty alleviation policy on differently poverty‐stricken households: A multi‐propensity score weighting model	7
Understanding the Inequality of Opportunity in Stunting Among Chinese Children and Adolescents: An Urban–Rural Comparison	6
The New Development Bank and the structure of the multilateral development financial system	6
Urban segregation and consumption inequality: Does hukou conversion matter in China?	6
Impact of mobile payment adoption on household expenditures and subjective well‐being	6
Re‐evaluating Africa's growth, poverty and inequality nexus	6
Do fertilizer and seed subsidies strengthen farmers' market participation? Evidence from Tanzania's subsidy program	6
Spatial tax regimes and location choices of manufacturing firms: Survey evidence in southern Tunisia	6
Mechanization services, factor allocation, and farm efficiency: Evidence from China^†	6
The effect of mini‐grid rural electrification on urbanization: Evidence from the pilot mini‐grid systems in Ghana	6
Son preference and the demographic transition	6
Predicting FDI inflows: Exploring a nonlinear relationship between peace years, oil wealth, and the rule of law	6
Assessing the impacts of Brazil's expenditure ceiling with a multiple‐household CGE model	6
Monetary, fiscal, and structural drivers of inflation in Ethiopia: new empirical evidence from time series analysis	6
Timing of international market openings and shrinking middle‐income class	5
Green technological progress, agricultural modernization, and wage inequality: Lessons from China	5
Trade liberalization, domestic reforms, and income inequality: Evidence from Taiwan	5
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Agricultural producer service subsidies and agricultural pollution: An approach based on endogenous agricultural pollution	5
The Impacts of Weather Variability and Shocks on Farmers and Indigenous Peoples' Consumption: Evidence From Panama	5
Finding the right products for export diversification	5
Pandemic‐induced job loss and mental health: Evidence from a moderated mediation model	5
Parents' pension eligibility and migrant consumption in urban China: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	5
Partial privatization, producer services, and unemployment in developing countries	5
Coastal proximity and individual living standards: Econometric evidence from georeferenced household surveys in sub‐Saharan Africa	5
Open‐access renewable resources and pollution: Trade and policy implications in a two‐country model	5
Financial inclusion and healthcare in Africa: Examining the moderating role of education	5
On the inclusiveness of rural road improvement: Evidence from Morocco	5
The unintended energy efficiency gain from tax incentives for investment: Micro‐evidence from quasi‐natural experiments in China	5
Central bank securities and foreign exchange market intervention in a developing economy	5
Military spending and sustainable development	5
Unemployment only temporarily lowers happiness in an eastern society	5
Dynamic correlation between crude oil and agricultural futures markets	5
International or national implementers—Who is better? Evidence from a framing experiment	5
Structural changes and economic landscape of the Indian economy: 2000‐2019	5
Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization: What experience for African countries?	5
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Revisiting the Schooling Inputs Debate: Experimental Evidence From an Early Grade Literacy Intervention in Lao PDR	4
Income‐linked pathways towards sustainable development goals: Analyzing the interplay of green energy, financial inclusion, and militarization in shaping aggregated economic sustainability	4
Population aging and saving: Evidence from China	4
Correction to “Exchange rate pass‐through to import prices: Evidence from a heterogeneous panel of West African countries”	4
The effects of school‐based management on Indian government schools	4
Gender Wage Gap in Early Careers: Evidence From University Graduates in China	4
Macroeconomic volatility and anti‐refugee violence in developing countries: Evidence from commodity price shocks	4
Growth, Crises, and COVID‐19: Tracking Poverty Changes in Turkey From 2003 to 2021	4
Global Value Chain Participation and Sustainable Development in Belt and Road Initiative Economies: A Blessing or a Curse?	4
The Geopolitics of Foreign Aid	4
Impact of information and communication technologies on fertilizer and pesticide use efficiency of China's grain production	4
The effect of negative human recognition on farmland access and well‐being: Evidence from women farmers in Malawi	4
Women's Economic Empowerment and Financial Well‐Being: Evidence From Rural China	4
Nutrition for all? Input subsidies and equitable diets	4
Did the nationwide implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian employment guarantee scheme result in reduced expenditures? A re‐examination of the evidence	4
Population Aging and Corporate Innovation: A U‐Shaped Evidence From China	4
Immigration and the economic performance of countries	4
Unveiling the Causes of Low Women's Political Participation: Novel Perspectives From China	4
Female Labor Supply in Latin America and the Business Cycle: Instability and Asymmetry¹	4
Do Structural Transformation and Energy Transition Cause Growth?	4
Does the Asset‐Type Matter in Vulnerability Reduction? Evidence From Rural Indian Households	4
Evaluating the effectiveness of labor market interventions on reducing the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Does access to financial services improve nutritional intake among rural residents? Assessing potential action mechanism pathways	4
Charting the RMB's Development as a Global Currency Anchor: An Empirical Analysis	4