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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Migrant wealth in Germany	92
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions	40
Ageing unequally in Latin America	34
Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail	28
Spouses’ earnings association and inequality: A non-linear perspective	23
Local inequality and crime: New evidence from South Africa	19
Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009–2017	18
Distributional divergence as a unifying measurement framework	18
Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK	17
Book reviews for the Journal of Economic Inequality	15
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries	14
Fair crack of the whip? The distribution of augmented wealth in Australia from 2002 to 2018	12
Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data	12
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels	11
Chasing the shadow: unreported wage payments and income inequality	11
Inequality of opportunity in access to and consumption of modern energy in Togo: A parametric approach	10
Fairness judgments about animals	10
Preferences for redistributive justice: A participatory-democracy experiment	10
Social gradients in employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Equivalence scales revisited: Evidence from subjective data	10
What drives regional economic inequalities in Tunisia? Evidence from unconditional quantile decomposition analysis	10
Polarization and its discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring	10
The long and the short of it: inheritance and wealth in Ireland	9
Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques	9
Wealth at birth and its effect on child academic achievement and behavioral problems	9

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

Review: The Handbook of Inequality and Work, by Cynthia Forson, Geraldine Healy, Mustafa Öztürk, and Ahu Tatli	2
Functional distribution, personal income inequality, and top shares of income: do social classes still matter?	2
Elasticity of marginal utility of consumption: the equal-sacrifice approach applied for the Czech Republic	1
Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: a dynamic analysis for European countries	1
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter	1
The asymmetric effect of US local oil and gas reliance on income inequality in the fracking era	1
Promoting education under distortionary taxation: equality of opportunity versus welfarism	1
Economic zones and local income inequality: Evidence from Indonesia	1
Fairness with unequal productive skills among other-regarding individuals	1
The Stock Market and the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States	1
Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile	1
Annualizing labor market, inequality, and poverty indicators	1
What are the economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage? Evidence from a pathway analysis for 27 European countries	1
Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans	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
A distributional decomposition of birthweight differences by maternal education: A comparison of France and the UK	1
Identification-robust methods for comparing inequality with an application to regional disparities	1
Ordinal health disparities between population subgroups: measurement and multivariate analysis with an application to the North-South divide in England	1
What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics	1
Smoothed instrumental variables quantile regression estimation of wage inequality in the MENA region	1
Electoral cycles in inequality	1
The shortest confidence interval for the ratio of quantiles of the Dagum distribution	1
A statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of multidimensional relative poverty alleviation efforts in China	1
Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data	1
Heritability and public policy – a reappraisal	1
Projecting the impact of COVID-19 on education and intergenerational mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
Two decades of child-contingent policies and redistribution in Spain	1
Taxation for development: the impact of the Ebola epidemic on citizen support across Western Africa	1
Review: Hierarchy of needs and the measurement of poverty and standards of living by Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber	1
The global distribution of gains from globalization	1
Poverty among same-sex couple families in the United States: Is there a premium for married couples?	1
Measuring hearts and minds: A validated survey module on inequality aversion and altruism	1
Understanding the role of inequality of opportunity in body mass index and waist circumference among Mexican adults	1
A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters	1
Inheritances and wealth inequality: a machine learning approach	1
Intergenerational earnings persistence and the provision of public goods: evidence from chile’s constitutional process	1
Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	1
A novel approach to measure poverty based on calorie deprivation - Evidence from household-level data	1
When perception shapes reality: Effects of perceived income inequality and social mobility on affective polarization	1
Effect of regional disparities on national economic growth. A spatial panel data evidence from EU countries in 2000–2020	1
Top-end inequality and growth: empirical exploration of nonlinearities and the time dimension	1