American Economic Journal-Economic Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of American Economic Journal-Economic Policy is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Increasing the Retirement Age: Policy Effects and Underlying Mechanisms123
How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?98
Gerrymandering in State Legislatures: Frictions from Axiomatic Bargaining66
Women’s Suffrage and Children’s Education56
How Social Security Reform Affects Retirement and Pension Claiming40
Policymaking, Trust, and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Mass Sterilization Campaign34
Wired and Hired: Employment Effects of Subsidized Broadband Internet for Low-Income Americans31
Fighting Poverty One Family at a Time: Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic, Individualized, Wraparound Services30
Student Performance, Peer Effects, and Friend Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Peer Intervention30
Out of the Woodwork: Enrollment Spillovers in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment30
Democracy and Aid Donorship29
Education and Geographical Mobility: The Role of the Job Surplus29
Implications of Tax Loss Asymmetry for Owners of S Corporations28
The Effect of SNAP on the Composition of Purchased Foods: Evidence and Implications28
The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?28
The Internet as a Tax Haven?27
My Professor Cares: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Faculty Engagement26
The Electric Gini: Income Redistribution through Energy Prices25
Labor Supply Responses to Income Taxation among Older Couples: Evidence from a Canadian Reform24
The Carrot and the Stick: Bank Bailouts and the Disciplining Role of Board Appointments23
Routine-Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Skill Investments23
Informal Labor and the Efficiency Cost of Social Programs: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance in Brazil22
Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence22
Externalities in International Tax Enforcement: Theory and Evidence22
Effects of Maturing Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students22
College Enrollment and Mandatory FAFSA Applications: Evidence from Louisiana21
Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Austria20
ACE—Analytic Climate Economy20
The Effect of Leaded Gasoline on Elderly Mortality: Evidence from Regulatory Exemptions19
Local Protectionism, Market Structure, and Social Welfare: China’s Automobile Market18
Child Marriage Bans and Female Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Natural Experiments in 17 Low- and Middle-Income Countries18
Reminders Work, but for Whom? Evidence from New York City Parking Ticket Recipients16
Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project16
Addressing Environmental Justice through In-Kind Court Settlements16
Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School16
Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Família15
Refugee Benefit Cuts15
The Effect of Charter Schools on School Segregation15
A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anticorruption Policy14
Corporate Tax Breaks and Executive Compensation14
Lift and Shift: The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time14
Front Matter13
Checking and Sharing Alt-Facts13
Reducing Frictions in College Admissions: Evidence from the Common Application13
Horizontal Differentiation and the Policy Effect of Charter Schools12
The Returns to Public Library Investment12
Identity in Court Decision-Making12
Front Matter12
Front Matter11
Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany11
Attendance Boundary Policies and the Limits to Combating School Segregation11
Yellow Vests, Pessimistic Beliefs, and Carbon Tax Aversion11
Does Hospital Crowding Matter? Evidence from Trauma and Orthopedics in England11
Front Matter11
The Rising Value of Time and the Origin of Urban Gentrification10
Childhood Housing and Adult Outcomes: A Between-Siblings Analysis of Housing Vouchers and Public Housing10
Can Nudges Increase Take-Up of the EITC? Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments10
The Employment Effects of Countercyclical Public Investments9
The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender on Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap9
Issuance and Incidence: SNAP Benefit Cycles and Grocery Prices9
Mortality, Temperature, and Public Health Provision: Evidence from Mexico9
The Effects of the 1930s HOLC “Redlining” Maps9
Optimal Internality Taxation of Product Attributes8
No Spending without Representation: School Boards and the Racial Gap in Education Finance8
The Great Recession and the Widening Income Gap between Alumni of Elite and Less Selective Universities8
Voting for Democracy: Chile’s Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation8
Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland7
Achieving Air Pollution Control Targets with Technology‑Aided Monitoring: Better Enforcement or Localized Efforts?7
Pay Transparency and Gender Equality7
Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP7
Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Lower-Income Countries7
Preferred Pharmacy Networks and Drug Costs7
Fiscal Rules and the Selection of Politicians: Theory and Evidence from Italy7
Exploring Residual Profit Allocation7
Front Matter7
International Transmission of Inequality through Trade7
Multinationals’ Sales and Profit Shifting in Tax Havens7
Depreciating Licenses7
Front Matter7
Subsidizing Fuel-Efficient Cars: Evidence from China’s Automobile Industry7
Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform6
Behavioral Responses to State Income Taxation of High Earners: Evidence from California6
Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan6
The Long-Run Effects of R&D Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Russian Science Cities6
Market Power and Price Exposure: Learning from Changes in Renewable Energy Regulation6
Increasing Organ Donor Registration as a Means to Increase Transplantation: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations6
Homeownership, Labor Supply, and Neighborhood Quality6
Price Sensitivity and Information Barriers to the Take-Up of Naloxone6
The Making of Civic Virtues:A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries6
Does Health-Care Consolidation Harm Patients? Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures6
School Boards and Education Production: Evidence from Randomized Ballot Order6
Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans6
Pandering in the Shadows: How Natural Disasters Affect Special Interest Politics6
HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes6
The Introduction of the Income Tax, Fiscal Capacity, and Migration: Evidence from US States5
The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality5
Does the “Boost for Mathematics” Boost Mathematics? A Large-Scale Evaluation of the “Lesson Study” Methodology on Student Performance5
Competitive Bidding in Drug Procurement: Evidence from China5
Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program5
Using Labor Supply Elasticities to Learn about Income Inequality: The Role of Productivities versus Preferences5
Corporate Minimum Tax and the Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Administrative Tax Records5
The Long-Term Effects of Measles Vaccination on Earnings and Employment5
Corporate Taxation and Evasion Responses: Evidence from a Minimum Tax in Honduras5
Sin Taxes and Self-Control5
Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions5
Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution5
Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation5
Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations5
State Taxation of Nonresident Income and the Location of Work5
Dynamic Impacts of School-Based Internet Access on Student Learning: Evidence from Peruvian Public Primary Schools4
The Effect of Charter School Openings on Traditional Public Schools in Massachusetts and North Carolina4
Information Frictions and Skill Signaling in the Youth Labor Market4
The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization of Low-Income Individuals: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid4
The Health Impacts of Hospital Delivery Practices4
Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply4
Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru’s Anchoveta Fishery4
Understanding the Link between Temperature and Crime4
The Extension of Credit with Nonexclusive Contracts and Sequential Banking Externalities4
Tripping through Hoops: The Effect of Violating Compulsory Government Procedures4
How Do Institutions of Higher Education Affect Local Invention? Evidence from the Establishment of US Colleges4
Efficiency and Incidence of Taxation with Free Entry and Love-of-Variety Preferences4
What Does a Provider Network Do? Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid Managed Care4
The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes4
Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nonexperts for Improving Vaccine Demand3
Fueling Alternatives: Gas Station Choice and the Implications for Electric Charging3
Dividend Taxation and Firm Performance with Heterogeneous Payout Responses3
Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right? Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency3
Who Bears the Burden of Local Taxes?3
Can Forward Commodity Markets Improve Spot Market Performance? Evidence from Wholesale Electricity3
Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved the Performance of US State Supreme Courts3
Transmitting Rights: Effective Cooperation, Inter-gender Contact, and Student Achievement3
Spillover, Efficiency, and Equity Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies3
The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers3
Pricing Carbon: Evidence from Expert Recommendations3
Clean Identification? The Effects of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution, Exposure Disparities, and House Prices3
Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment3
Local Retail Prices, Product Variety, and Neighborhood Change3
How Much Are Public School Teachers Willing to Pay for Their Retirement Benefits? Comment3
Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment3
The Effects of a Large-Scale Mental Health Reform: Evidence from Brazil3
How Do Beliefs about the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy?3
Hassle Costs versus Information: How Do Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Reduce Opioid Prescribing?2
Technology, Taxation, and Corruption: Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing2
Semesters or Quarters? The Effect of the Academic Calendar on Postsecondary Student Outcomes2
Dominated Options in Health Insurance Plans2
Communication Barriers and Infant Health: The Intergenerational Effect of Randomly Allocating Refugees across Language Regions2
Juvenile Crime and Anticipated Punishment2
Front Matter2
The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration2
The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives2
Collaborative Tax Evasion in the Provision of Services to Consumers: A Field Experiment2
Raising the Bar: Minimum Wages and Employers’ Hiring Standards2
Do Environmental Regulations Affect the Decision to Export?2
Communicating Program Eligibility: A Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Field Experiment2
Improving Preferential Market Access through Rules of Origin: Firm-Level Evidence from Bangladesh2
Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity2
Do Credit Supply Shocks Affect Employment in Middle-Income Countries?2
Pensions and Fertility: Microeconomic Evidence2
Shaping the Habits of Teen Drivers2
The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion2
Public and Private Options in Practice: The Military Health System2
Should College be “Free”? Evidence on Free College, Early Commitment, and Merit Aid from an Eight-Year Randomized Trial2
Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uruguay’s Financial Inclusion Reform2
Peer Effects in Police Use of Force2
Fiscal Transfers in the Spatial Economy2
Engaging Teachers with Technology Increased Achievement, Bypassing Teachers Did Not2
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