OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	111
Gerrymandering in State Legislatures: Frictions from Axiomatic Bargaining	80
Adviser Value Added and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomly Assigned College Advisers	79
Preferred Pharmacy Networks and Drug Costs	58
Public Pension Reforms and Retirement Decisions: Narrative Evidence and Aggregate Implications	41
Policymaking, Trust, and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Mass Sterilization Campaign	31
The Great Recession and the Widening Income Gap between Alumni of Elite and Less Selective Universities	29
Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uruguay’s Financial Inclusion Reform	27
Spending Responses to High-Frequency Shifts in Payment Timing: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit	26
Fiscal Transfers in the Spatial Economy	25
Do Value-Added Taxes Affect International Trade Flows? Evidence from 30 Years of Tax Reforms	25
Increasing the Retirement Age: Policy Effects and Underlying Mechanisms	24
Front Matter	23
Fighting Crime in Lawless Areas: Evidence from Slums in Rio de Janeiro	23
The Employment Effects of Countercyclical Public Investments	23
Juvenile Crime and Anticipated Punishment	22
State Taxation of Nonresident Income and the Location of Work	21
Political Alignment, Attitudes Toward Government, and Tax Evasion	21
Sin Taxes and Self-Control	20
Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations	20
Issuance and Incidence: SNAP Benefit Cycles and Grocery Prices	19
Improving Preferential Market Access through Rules of Origin: Firm-Level Evidence from Bangladesh	19
Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Lower-Income Countries	19
Front Matter	19
Indirect Savings from Public Procurement Centralization	18

Competitive Bidding in Drug Procurement: Evidence from China	18
How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?	18
Optimal Internality Taxation of Product Attributes	18
Public and Private Options in Practice: The Military Health System	17
Firm Donations and Political Rhetoric: Evidence from a National Ban	17
Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment	17
Dominated Options in Health Insurance Plans	17
Raising the Bar: Minimum Wages and Employers’ Hiring Standards	16
Housing in Medicaid: Should It Really Change?	16
Semesters or Quarters? The Effect of the Academic Calendar on Postsecondary Student Outcomes	16
The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Economics of Banning Gasoline Vehicles	14
How Social Security Reform Affects Retirement and Pension Claiming	13
No Spending without Representation: School Boards and the Racial Gap in Education Finance	13
The Hazards of Unwinding the Prescription Opioid Epidemic: Implications for Child Maltreatment	13
Voting for Democracy: Chile’s Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation	13
Borrowing Costs after Sovereign Debt Relief	12
Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland	12
Health Effects of Increasing Income for the Elderly: Evidence from a Chilean Pension Program	12
Unit Sales and Price Effects of Preannounced Consumption Tax Reforms: Micro-level Evidence from European VAT	11
Long-Term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods	11
Women’s Suffrage and Children’s Education	11
The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion	11
Wired and Hired: Employment Effects of Subsidized Broadband Internet for Low-Income Americans	11
Health Care Rationing in Public Insurance Programs: Evidence from Medicaid	10
The Long-Run Impacts of Special Education	10
Age Discrimination across the Business Cycle	10
The Effect of SNAP on the Composition of Purchased Foods: Evidence and Implications	10
Racial and Ethnic Representation in Local Government	9
The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?	9
Efficiency and Incidence of Taxation with Free Entry and Love-of-Variety Preferences	9
The Extension of Credit with Nonexclusive Contracts and Sequential Banking Externalities	9
Education and Geographical Mobility: The Role of the Job Surplus	8
Front Matter	8
Thy Neighbor’s Misfortune: Peer Effect on Consumption	8
Out of the Woodwork: Enrollment Spillovers in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment	8
Information Frictions and Skill Signaling in the Youth Labor Market	8
Shaping the Habits of Teen Drivers	8
Real-Time Pricing and the Cost of Clean Power	7
What Does a Provider Network Do? Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid Managed Care	7
Pensions and Fertility: Microeconomic Evidence	7
Student Performance, Peer Effects, and Friend Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Peer Intervention	7
Consumer Myopia in Vehicle Purchases: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	7
Collaborative Tax Evasion in the Provision of Services to Consumers: A Field Experiment	7
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act: Evidence from California’s Hospital Sector	7
Profiting from Most-Favored-Customer Procurement Rules: Evidence from Medicaid	7
The Internet as a Tax Haven?	6
The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes	6
Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru’s Anchoveta Fishery	6
Does the Individual Mandate Affect Insurance Coverage? Evidence from Tax Returns	6
Democracy and Aid Donorship	6

Does Virtual Advising Increase College Enrollment? Evidence from a Random-Assignment College Access Field Experiment	6
Political Parties Do Matter in US Cities … for Their Unfunded Pensions	6
Labor Supply Responses to Income Taxation among Older Couples: Evidence from a Canadian Reform	6
Multinationals’ Sales and Profit Shifting in Tax Havens	6
The Electric Gini: Income Redistribution through Energy Prices	6
Fighting Poverty One Family at a Time: Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic, Individualized, Wraparound Services	5
Minimum-Wage Increases and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle	5
Hassle Costs versus Information: How Do Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Reduce Opioid Prescribing?	5
The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization of Low-Income Individuals: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid	5
Technology, Taxation, and Corruption: Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing	5
Implications of Tax Loss Asymmetry for Owners of S Corporations	5
Subsidizing Fuel-Efficient Cars: Evidence from China’s Automobile Industry	5
My Professor Cares: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Faculty Engagement	5
Housing Lock: Dutch Evidence on the Impact of Negative Home Equity on Household Mobility	5
Effective Health Aid: Evidence from Gavi’s Vaccine Program	5
Engaging Teachers with Technology Increased Achievement, Bypassing Teachers Did Not	5
Achieving Air Pollution Control Targets with Technology‑Aided Monitoring: Better Enforcement or Localized Efforts?	5
Understanding the Link between Temperature and Crime	5
Front Matter	4
Externalities in International Tax Enforcement: Theory and Evidence	4
College Enrollment and Mandatory FAFSA Applications: Evidence from Louisiana	4
Dynamic Impacts of School-Based Internet Access on Student Learning: Evidence from Peruvian Public Primary Schools	4
Front Matter	4
The Health Impacts of Hospital Delivery Practices	4
The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Adult Criminality: Evidence from the 1960s through 1990s	4
The Valuation of Local School Quality under School Choice	4
ACE—Analytic Climate Economy	4
Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nonexperts for Improving Vaccine Demand	4
Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity	4
The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives	4
Coase and Cap-and-Trade: Evidence on the Independence Property from the European Carbon Market	4
Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Austria	4
Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence	4
The Costs of Corporate Tax Complexity	4
The Effect of Charter School Openings on Traditional Public Schools in Massachusetts and North Carolina	3
Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment	3
Centralized Admissions, Affirmative Action, and Access of Low-Income Students to Higher Education	3
Tripping through Hoops: The Effect of Violating Compulsory Government Procedures	3
The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children	3
Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply	3
Emissions, Transmission, and the Environmental Value of Renewable Energy	3
Do Credit Supply Shocks Affect Employment in Middle-Income Countries?	3
Informal Labor and the Efficiency Cost of Social Programs: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance in Brazil	3
The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration	3
Optimal Income Taxation with Spillovers from Employer Learning	3
Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP	3
Depreciating Licenses	3
Retail Prices in a City	2
Remote Instruction and Student Mental Health: Swedish Evidence from the Pandemic	2
Labor Market Effects of Credit Constraints: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	2
Mandatory Energy Efficiency Disclosure in Housing Markets	2
Opposing Firm-Level Responses to the China Shock: Output Competition versus Input Supply	2
Corporate Tax Breaks and Executive Compensation	2
Saving Lives with Indexed Disaster Funds: Evidence from Mexico	2
Front Matter	2
The Effect of Leaded Gasoline on Elderly Mortality: Evidence from Regulatory Exemptions	2
The Carrot and the Stick: Bank Bailouts and the Disciplining Role of Board Appointments	2
Learning by Offending: How Do Criminals Learn about Criminal Law?	2
Local Protectionism, Market Structure, and Social Welfare: China’s Automobile Market	2
Effects of Maturing Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students	2
School Boards and Education Production: Evidence from Randomized Ballot Order	2
Refugee Benefit Cuts	2
Administrative Burden and Procedural Denials: Experimental Evidence from SNAP	2
Front Matter	2
Why Are Relatively Poor People Not More Supportive of Redistribution? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment across Ten Countries	2
How Do Institutions of Higher Education Affect Local Invention? Evidence from the Establishment of US Colleges	2
The Long-Run Effects of R&D Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Russian Science Cities	2
Child Marriage Bans and Female Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Natural Experiments in 17 Low- and Middle-Income Countries	2
Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance	2