OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of Economics of the Household 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Consumption and income expectations during Covid-19	67
Do preschool investments depreciate and fadeout or result in dynamic complementarities? An assessment using the Head Start Impact Study	51
How informal institutions matter: clan culture and fertility in China	45
Does signaling childcare support on job applications reduce the motherhood penalty?	29
Intra-household management of resources: evidence from Malawi	22
Social status and marriage markets: Evaluating a Hukou policy in China	21
Intertemporal elasticity of substitution with leisure margin	20
The many ways COVID-19 affects households: consumption, time, and health outcomes	15
Child marriage: using the Indonesian family life survey to examine the lives of women and men who married at an early age	14
Work from home and daily time allocations: evidence from the coronavirus pandemic	14
Maternal health and child socio-emotional development: findings from the growing up in New Zealand study	14
Wealth inequalities among seniors: the role of marital histories across cohorts	13
A bigger house at the cost of an empty stomach? The effect of households’ indebtedness on their consumption: micro-evidence using Belgian HFCS data	12
Health insurance reform impact on children’s educational attainment: evidence from Vietnam	11
Parental disability and teenagers’ time allocation	11
Navigating educational disruptions: the gender divide in parental involvement and children’s learning outcomes	11
Parental housing wealth and children’s marriage prospects in China—evidence from CHARLS	11
Notification and consent: the differential effects of parental involvement laws on teen abortion	10
Abortions and extra male births	10
Famine and matching by socioeconomic status—evidence from the Great Chinese Famine	9
The impact of a rural clinic expansion on the fertility of young rural women in Mexico	9
Women’s empowerment and child nutritional outcomes in rural Burkina Faso	9
Income loss among the self-employed: implications for individual wellbeing and pandemic policy measures	8
Pregnant in haste? The impact of foetus loss on birth spacing and the role of subjective probabilistic beliefs	8
Ethnic fertility and exposure to armed conflict: the case of Sri Lanka	7

Marriage as insurance: job protection and job insecurity in France	7
Marriage and divorce during a pandemic: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marital formation and dissolution in Mexico	7
Child penalty in Russia: evidence from an event study	7
The impact of minimum wage on parental time allocation to children: evidence from the American Time Use Survey	7
Family background, education, and earnings: the limited value of “test-score transmission”	6
Correction to: Why do families foster children? A Beckerian approach	6
Work, motherhood and women’s affective well-being	6
Correction: What explains the gender gap in wealth? Evidence from administrative data	6
Maternal education and child survival: causal evidence from Kenya	6
Correction: Do fathers have son preference in the United States? Evidence from paternal subjective well-being	6
Adverse childhood experiences and unhealthy lifestyles later in life: evidence from SHARE countries	5
Why do families foster children? A Beckerian approach	5
Who is doing the chores and childcare in dual-earner couples during the COVID-19 era of working from home?	5
Housing prices, social security, and fertility rate	5
The added-worker effect in the Netherlands before and during the Great Recession	5
The impact of the COVID-19 recession on Mexican households: evidence from employment and time use for men, women, and children	5
The impact of reducing formal care benefits on caregivers’ well-being: evidence from Japan	4
Disability and work intensity in Italian households	4
Sources of increases in time alone during the COVID pandemic: evidence from the American Time Use Survey	4
Access to housing credit and marriage: evidence from redlining maps	4
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on treatment for domestic violence injuries: evidence from medical claims	4
Parents, neighbors and youth crime	4
Importance of precautionary savings for urban Chinese households	4
Ethnic heterogeneity and healthcare utilization: The mediating role of poverty in Ghana	4
Demanding financial self-sufficiency after divorce: understanding the consequences of the 2008 Alimony Reform	4
Parents’ vs friends’ influence on teenagers’ deception about gambling	4
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Child Food Poverty in the United States	3
Giving and volunteering over a lifecycle	3
Empowered or impoverished: the impact of panic buttons on domestic violence	3
Experimental evidence of the effect of head start on mothers’ labor supply and human capital investments	3
Finding love abroad: who marries a migrant and what do they gain?	3
Correction: Subsidizing private childcare in a universal regime	3
School schedules and mothers’ employment: evidence from an education reform	3
The earned income tax credit (EITC) and time spent helping and caring for adults	3
The long-run effects of recessions on fertility	3
Gender identity and market and non-market work of married women: evidence from Japan	3
The independent woman—locus of control and female labor force participation	3
How does the minimum wage affect child maltreatment and parenting behaviors? An analysis of the mechanisms	3
Determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana: an empirical analysis	3
The effects of a negative economic shock on male marriage in the West Bank	2
Medicaid Expansion and the Mental Health of Spousal Caregivers	2
Gender gap in reported childcare preferences among parents	2
COVID-19, marriage, and divorce in Japan	2
Compulsory education and gender gaps in intrahousehold empowerment	2
On the economic determinants of prostitution: marriage compensation and unilateral divorce in U.S. states	2
The effect of gender norms on gender-based sorting across occupations	2
Body mass index and the distribution of housework among British couples	2
Marijuana legalization and drug abuse as a cause for entry into foster care	2
Unconditional cash transfers for families with children in the U.S.: a scoping review	2
Correction to: Non cognitive skills and childcare attendance	2

Highbrow heritage: the effects of childhood cultural capital on wealth	2
Impacts of religion on sex selection in Vietnam	2
The heterogeneous effects of the first childbirth on women’s income	1
Life satisfaction and body mass index: estimating the monetary value of achieving optimal body weight	1
Parental labor market penalties during two years of COVID-19	1
Is there a desired added worker effect? Evidence from involuntary job losses	1
Son preference and crime in India	1
Task specialization and cognitive skills: evidence from PIAAC and IALS	1
The impact of access to legal services on divorce outcomes	1
Migration of dual-earner couples: a subjective wellbeing approach	1
Household gift-giving consumption and subjective well-being: evidence from rural China	1
The Bank of Mum & Dad – intergenerational transfers and first-time homeownership in Australia	1
Allocation of time and child socio-emotional skills	1
Does a child’s early schooling affect mother’s mental well-being? Evidence from Australia	1
Reciprocity and the matrilineal advantage in European grand-parenting	1
Unequal consequences of Covid 19: representative evidence from six countries	1
The long-term effects of marijuana use on mental health outcomes	1
Commuting in dual-earner households: international gender differences with time use surveys	1
Unintended effect of mothers’ labor force participation on child time allocations under family dynamics in rural Philippines	1
Hire or care: the effects of aging parents on household labor supply	1
Children’s multidimensional deprivation, monetary poverty and undernutrition in Ethiopia	1
Optimal taxation in an endogenous fertility model with non-cooperative behavior	1
Telework, Wages, and Time Use in the United States	1
Age at marriage and marital stability: evidence from China	1
Abortion policy, politics, and mental health: evidence from the Dobbs decision	1
Health and household labor supply: instantaneous and adaptive behavior of an aging workforce	1
Low-skilled immigrants and the relative wages of high-skilled mothers	1
Gender gap in the impact of social capital on household food security in Zimbabwe: does spatial proximity matter?	1
Financial inclusion and multidimensional child poverty	1
Estimating impacts of the US EITC program on domestic violence	1
Contributory pension scheme and formal retirement savings: is there a trade-off? -evidence from India’s Atal Pension Yojna using copula regression methodology	1
Teenage mothers and the next generation: benefits of delay?	1
Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men	1
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the academic achievement of elementary and junior high school students: analysis using administrative data from Amagasaki City	1
Gender gaps: back and here to stay? Evidence from skilled Ugandan workers during COVID-19	1
Self-employment and mental health	1