OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Inequality is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Migrant wealth in Germany	95
Ageing unequally in Latin America	42
Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail	36
Spouses’ earnings association and inequality: A non-linear perspective	29
Distributional divergence as a unifying measurement framework	24
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions	19
Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK	19
Local inequality and crime: New evidence from South Africa	19
Book reviews for the Journal of Economic Inequality	18
Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data	16
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries	15
Fair crack of the whip? The distribution of augmented wealth in Australia from 2002 to 2018	14
Polarization and its discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring	13
Chasing the shadow: unreported wage payments and income inequality	13
Social gradients in employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Fairness judgments about animals	11
Preferences for redistributive justice: A participatory-democracy experiment	11
What drives regional economic inequalities in Tunisia? Evidence from unconditional quantile decomposition analysis	11
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels	11
The long and the short of it: inheritance and wealth in Ireland	10
Inequality of opportunity in access to and consumption of modern energy in Togo: A parametric approach	10
Wealth at birth and its effect on child academic achievement and behavioral problems	10
Equivalence scales revisited: Evidence from subjective data	10
Do late-life divorces produce greater gender inequalities? Evidence from administrative data	9
Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques	9

Enforcing ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ in the EU: what would it take?	9
Consumption and borrowing: Land-holding inequality and the effects of cash transfers	9
Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic	9
Missing Poor in the U.S.	8
The impact of FDI income on income shares in home countries	8
Assumption-light and computationally cheap inference on inequality measures by sample splitting: the Student t approach	8
Exploring socioeconomic-related inequality in children’s cognitive achievement in Peru	8
On the social welfare interpretation of growth incidence curves	7
The Black and white differential in income and consumption dynamics	7
Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression	6
Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour	6
The dynamics of poverty in Europe: what has changed after the great recession?	6
Inequality acceptance in China: fairness views, inequality beliefs, and policy attitudes in a socialist market economy	6
Levelling the playing field? SES differences in graduate degree choices*	6
Correction to: Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	6
Education development and income inequality: evidence from China	6
Correction to: Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low‑income dynamics approach for Chile	5
Intergenerational home ownership	5
Family characteristics in U.S. intragenerational family income mobility, 1978–2014	5
Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China	5
Absolute intragenerational mobility in the United States, 1962–2014	5
Inequality and income mobility: the case of targeted and universal interventions in India	4
Immigrant key workers: their contribution to Europe’s Covid-19 response	4
Thinking about need	4
Correction to: Thinking about need	4
Demographic behaviour and earnings inequality across OECD countries	4
Does the Gini index represent people’s views on inequality?	4
Parenthood and the distribution of intra-household inequalities in wellbeing	4
The Use of Distributional National Accounts in Better Capturing the Top Tail of the Distribution	4
Central bank independence, income inequality and poverty: What do the data say?	4
Being poor and being NEET in Europe: Are these two sides of the same coin?	4
About some difficulties with the functional forms of Lorenz curves	3
Book reviews	3
Non-linear impact of minimum wage on poverty and inequality: when raising it fails to help	3
Uncovering Gatsby Curves	3
Representative endowments and uniform Gini orderings of multi-attribute welfare	3
Credit and income mobility in Russia	3
Irrigation agriculture and income redistribution	3
COVID-19 and income inequality: evidence from monthly population registers	3
How does predistribution affect redistribution?	3
Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?	3
Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile	2
Intergenerational earnings persistence and the provision of public goods: evidence from chile’s constitutional process	2
The Stock Market and the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States	2
Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	2
Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany	2
What explains recent trends in income inequality in the European Union?	2
The sources and structure of wage inequality changes in the selected Central-Eastern European Countries	2
Functional distribution, personal income inequality, and top shares of income: do social classes still matter?	2
Disaggregated impacts of off-farm work participation on household vulnerability to food poverty in Ghana	2

Inheritances and wealth inequality: a machine learning approach	2
The shortest confidence interval for the ratio of quantiles of the Dagum distribution	2
Electoral cycles in inequality	2
Inequality ranking of ordered categorical distributions: A status-based approach	2
Evaluating ordinal inequalities between groups	2
When government’s economic ideology shapes income redistribution. Empirical evidence from the OECD	2
A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters	2
A statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of multidimensional relative poverty alleviation efforts in China	2
Fairness with unequal productive skills among other-regarding individuals	2
Understanding the role of inequality of opportunity in body mass index and waist circumference among Mexican adults	2
What interaction between income inequality and structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?	2
Review: The Handbook of Inequality and Work, by Cynthia Forson, Geraldine Healy, Mustafa Öztürk, and Ahu Tatli	2
How information about effort and luck shapes altruism of social preferences: a survey experiment	2
The two-sample two-stage least squares method to estimate the intergenerational earnings elasticity	1
Projecting the impact of COVID-19 on education and intergenerational mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans	1
Two decades of child-contingent policies and redistribution in Spain	1
Identification-robust methods for comparing inequality with an application to regional disparities	1
Promoting education under distortionary taxation: equality of opportunity versus welfarism	1
Annualizing labor market, inequality, and poverty indicators	1
Economic zones and local income inequality: Evidence from Indonesia	1
A distributional decomposition of birthweight differences by maternal education: A comparison of France and the UK	1
Ordinal health disparities between population subgroups: measurement and multivariate analysis with an application to the North-South divide in England	1
Heritability and public policy – a reappraisal	1
Mind the gap: effects of the national minimum wage on the gender wage gap of full-time workers in Germany	1
When perception shapes reality: Effects of perceived income inequality and social mobility on affective polarization	1
The regression approach to the measurement and decomposition of the multidimensional Watts poverty index	1
Smoothed instrumental variables quantile regression estimation of wage inequality in the MENA region	1
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter	1
Income developments in the great recession: status for the Danish prime-age working population a decade following the onset of the Financial Crisis	1
What are the economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage? Evidence from a pathway analysis for 27 European countries	1
Inequalities in educational achievement: effect of group capabilities	1
What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics	1
Elasticity of marginal utility of consumption: the equal-sacrifice approach applied for the Czech Republic	1
The asymmetric effect of US local oil and gas reliance on income inequality in the fracking era	1
Review: Hierarchy of needs and the measurement of poverty and standards of living by Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber	1
How did COVID affect savings and wealth? An empirical study in South Africa	1
Effect of regional disparities on national economic growth. A spatial panel data evidence from EU countries in 2000–2020	1
Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: a dynamic analysis for European countries	1
Study strategies during emergency-related distance learning. The role of gender and field of study	1
Measuring hearts and minds: A validated survey module on inequality aversion and altruism	1
Top-end inequality and growth: empirical exploration of nonlinearities and the time dimension	1
A novel approach to measure poverty based on calorie deprivation - Evidence from household-level data	1
Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data	1
The global distribution of gains from globalization	1
Taxation for development: the impact of the Ebola epidemic on citizen support across Western Africa	1
Poverty among same-sex couple families in the United States: Is there a premium for married couples?	1