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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information	54
Social Capital, Social Protection, and Multi‐Dimensional Poverty: Evidence From Chinese Migrant Workers' Experience	45
The remittance‐growth nexus in leading remittance‐earning nations, controlling regulatory quality, trade openness, energy use, and financial expansion	44
Government spending and the exchange rate: Exploring this relationship in Mexico using a cointegrated system of equations	42
Conditional cash transfers tools to combat child labor: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Costa Rica	33
Special economic zones, export status, and firms’ productivity: Theory and evidence from China	31
Empowering women through microcredit in Djibouti	29
Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan	28
Issue Information	27
Research collaboration in development economics	25
Climate threat and price stability: A case study of Belize	22
Non‐Farm Entrepreneurship and Household Economic Precarity in Rural Ghana	22
Correction to “Overeducation and skill mismatch of university graduates in Taiwan”	22
Does Land Resource Misallocation Reduce Energy Efficiency? Empirical Evidence From 243 Prefecture Level Cities in China	22
The effect of capital structure on the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions: A meta‐analysis	20
Why do some African firms export? The role of regional economic communities?	20
Teaching in the right context: Textbook supply program, language, and learning	20
Has the information and communication technology sector become the engine of China’s economic growth?	20
COVID‐19 and the Unequal Distribution of Poverty Risks: Evidence From Urban India	19
Does Monetary Policy Affect Urban Food Inflation? Some Evidence From India	19
Does Fiscal Efficiency Affect Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence Based on Spatial Panel Data Models	19
Issue Information	18
Inequality in Africa: Does injustice matter?	17
From cultivation to culture: Wheat farming and sex selection in China	17

“Rising Women”: Evidence From China's Agricultural Mechanization	16
Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China	15
Rural development in the digital age: Does information and communication technology adoption contribute to credit access and income growth in rural China?	15
Impact of financial inclusion on household welfare in Liberia: A gendered perspective	14
Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics	14
Corruption, Land, and Housing: The Cleaning and Chilling Effects of China's Anti‐Corruption Campaign	13
Aspirations and Investments in Agricultural Risk Mitigation Strategies	12
The impact of financial inclusion on rural–urban households welfare inequality in Ghana: A decomposition analysis	12
From non‐renewables to renewables and high‐tech production: The impact of natural wealth and technology on ecological load capacity in sub‐Saharan Africa	12
Impact of global value chains on total factor productivity: The case of Indian manufacturing	11
Correction of China's income inequality for missing top incomes	11
Beyond the scenery: Understanding the impact of rural tourism development on household consumption in China	11
Economic transition, dualism and informality inIndia: Nature and patterns of household‐level transitions	11
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America	11
Challenges in water and sanitation services: Do natural disasters make matters worse?	11
Oil discovery, boom‐bust cycle and manufacturing slowdown: Evidence from a large industry level dataset	11
Crime, elections, and political competition	11
Does Mobile Payment Raise the Poverty‐Alleviation Resilience of Chinese Households?	10
Fruitless or Fruitful? Examining Ghana's Agricultural Inputs Subsidy and Household Welfare	10
Beyond Competitiveness: Is Productivity Everything?	10
The Impact of Income Inequality on Rural Household's Adoption of Climate‐Smart Agriculture Practices: Evidence From Yellow River Basin Region, China	10
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The effects of free primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A difference‐in‐differences approach	9
Female labor force participation in Egypt and Palestine: An age–period–cohort analysis*	9
Exports, skills, and wage inequality in Kenya's manufacturing firms	9
Equal opportunity and poverty reduction: How should aid be allocated?	9
One‐child policy and marriage market in China	9
Parental aspirations and child private‐school enrollment: Evidence from India	9
Household income mobility in India, 1993–2011	9
Drain on your health: Sanitation externalities from dirty drains in India	9
Do chairmen with China's Great Famine experience in early‐life affect firm tax avoidance activities?	8
A Novel Decomposition Framework for Agricultural Growth Accounting: A Global Supply Chain Perspective	8
The Impact of Digital Technology Use on Farmers' Quality of Life: Evidence From Rural China	8
Poverty and vulnerability transitions in Myanmar: An analysis using synthetic panels	8
“Rely (only) on the rigorous evidence” is bad advice	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
(En‐)‘lightening’ children: Assessing the impacts of access to electricity on learning achievement levels	8
Does intrahousehold bargaining power enhance women's marital satisfaction? A perspective from two competing forces in China	8
The Bias of Chinese Agricultural Enterprises’ Export: Profit Margin or Productivity?	8
Can world heritage sites boost sales in non‐tourism firms? The role of visibility	8
How do small formal and informal firms in Egypt compare? An analysis of firm characteristics and implications for formalization efforts	8
Democracy and Aid‐Led Development: Analysis With Dispersion Measure of Democracy and Korea's Knowledge Sharing Project Outcome	8
Informality, foreign ownership and bribery in developing countries	7
Trade liberalization, wilful credit defaults and bank bribery in a credit‐constrained economy	7
From Tech to Green: The Potential of Company Digitalization in Mitigating Urban Air Pollution	7
Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method	7
Navigating the Governance Gap: Is Africa's Informal Sector Holding Back Economic Transformation?	7
Government Digitalization: A Catalyst for Innovation Across Economies	7
Unveiling complexities: Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in China	7
Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia: The gravity model	7

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
Does democracy stimulate remittances?	7
Connecting the fields: How ICT improve agricultural productivity in sub‐Saharan Africa	7
The Impact of Integrated Straw Utilization on Low‐Carbon Agricultural Development: Evidence From China	7
Modeling the dynamics of oil and agricultural commodity price nexus in linear and nonlinear frameworks: A case of emerging economy	7
Constructing Country‐Specific Debt Indices for Developing Countries	7
Assessment of the effects of targeted poverty alleviation policy on differently poverty‐stricken households: A multi‐propensity score weighting model	6
Mechanization services, factor allocation, and farm efficiency: Evidence from China^†	6
Spatial tax regimes and location choices of manufacturing firms: Survey evidence in southern Tunisia	6
The New Development Bank and the structure of the multilateral development financial system	6
Predicting FDI inflows: Exploring a nonlinear relationship between peace years, oil wealth, and the rule of law	6
Impacts of climate change on food utilization in Nepal	6
Impact of mobile payment adoption on household expenditures and subjective well‐being	6
Assessing the impacts of Brazil's expenditure ceiling with a multiple‐household CGE model	6
Does It Help or Hinder? The Impact of Population Aging on Industrial Structure Upgrading in Transition Economic Systems	6
Do fertilizer and seed subsidies strengthen farmers' market participation? Evidence from Tanzania's subsidy program	6
The effect of mini‐grid rural electrification on urbanization: Evidence from the pilot mini‐grid systems in Ghana	6
Monetary, fiscal, and structural drivers of inflation in Ethiopia: new empirical evidence from time series analysis	6
Democracy and Human Capital in Africa	6
Financial inclusion and healthcare in Africa: Examining the moderating role of education	5
Bribery and firm survival in Vietnam: Moderating effects of market competition, credit, and institutional constraints	5
Re‐evaluating Africa's growth, poverty and inequality nexus	5
Pandemic‐induced job loss and mental health: Evidence from a moderated mediation model	5
International or national implementers—Who is better? Evidence from a framing experiment	5
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On the inclusiveness of rural road improvement: Evidence from Morocco	5
Finding the right products for export diversification	5
Women, Violence and Work: Threat of Sexual Violence and Women's Decision to Work	5
Structural changes and economic landscape of the Indian economy: 2000‐2019	5
The unintended energy efficiency gain from tax incentives for investment: Micro‐evidence from quasi‐natural experiments in China	5
Parents' pension eligibility and migrant consumption in urban China: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	5
Understanding the Inequality of Opportunity in Stunting Among Chinese Children and Adolescents: An Urban–Rural Comparison	5
Macroeconomic volatility and anti‐refugee violence in developing countries: Evidence from commodity price shocks	5
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Coastal proximity and individual living standards: Econometric evidence from georeferenced household surveys in sub‐Saharan Africa	5
Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization: What experience for African countries?	5
The Impacts of Weather Variability and Shocks on Farmers and Indigenous Peoples' Consumption: Evidence From Panama	5
Agricultural producer service subsidies and agricultural pollution: An approach based on endogenous agricultural pollution	5
Son preference and the demographic transition	5
Central bank securities and foreign exchange market intervention in a developing economy	5
Open‐access renewable resources and pollution: Trade and policy implications in a two‐country model	5
Unemployment only temporarily lowers happiness in an eastern society	5
Green technological progress, agricultural modernization, and wage inequality: Lessons from China	5
Dynamic correlation between crude oil and agricultural futures markets	5
The effect of negative human recognition on farmland access and well‐being: Evidence from women farmers in Malawi	4
Female Labor Supply in Latin America and the Business Cycle: Instability and Asymmetry	4
The Geopolitics of Foreign Aid	4
Growth, Crises, and COVID‐19: Tracking Poverty Changes in Turkey From 2003 to 2021	4
Unveiling the Causes of Low Women's Political Participation: Novel Perspectives From China	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
The effects of school‐based management on Indian government schools	4
Nutrition for all? Input subsidies and equitable diets	4
Global Value Chain Participation and Sustainable Development in Belt and Road Initiative Economies: A Blessing or a Curse?	4
Revisiting the Schooling Inputs Debate: Experimental Evidence From an Early Grade Literacy Intervention in Lao PDR	4
Issue Information	4
Trade liberalization, domestic reforms, and income inequality: Evidence from Taiwan	4
Does access to financial services improve nutritional intake among rural residents? Assessing potential action mechanism pathways	4
Evaluating the effectiveness of labor market interventions on reducing the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Impact of information and communication technologies on fertilizer and pesticide use efficiency of China's grain production	4
Military spending and sustainable development	4
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Income‐linked pathways towards sustainable development goals: Analyzing the interplay of green energy, financial inclusion, and militarization in shaping aggregated economic sustainability	4
Charting the RMB's Development as a Global Currency Anchor: An Empirical Analysis	4