OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Economic Journal-Applied Economics 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
The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics	67
How the Internet Changed the Market for Print Media	56
The Side Effects of Immunity: Malaria and African Slavery in the United States	37
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply	35
Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes	34
Missing Women, Integration Costs, and Big Push Policies in the Saudi Labor Market	33
Front Matter	32
Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance	32
Teaching Labor Laws: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in South Africa	29
Front Matter	29
Front Matter	29
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions	28
Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland	26
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Cuts on Children and Adolescents	25
The Unintended Consequences of Test-Based Remediation	24
Does Promoting One Healthy Behavior Detract from Others? Evidence from a Field Experiment	22
Correction to “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases” and Reply to Spamann	21
Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households	19
Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration? Evidence from Nigeria	18
The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity	18
Front Matter	17
Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation	16
A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany	16
Location, Location, Location	16
LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training	15

The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health	15
The Health Effects of Prison	15
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment	14
The Short- and the Long-Run Impact of Gender-Biased Teachers	14
Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab	14
From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Antiminority Sentiment	13
Peer Effects in Product Adoption	13
Discrimination in Times of Crises and the Role of the Media	13
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA	12
Information Frictions, Internet, and the Relationship between Distance and Trade	12
Working Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and the Market for Remote Work	12
Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections	12
Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records	12
Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”	12
High School Majors and Future Earnings	11
Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD	11
Front Matter	11
The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China	11
Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts	10
A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?	10
Formative Experiences and the Price of Gasoline	10
School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States	10
At What Level Should One Cluster Standard Errors in Paired and Small-Strata Experiments?	10
Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major	10
The Employee Costs of Corporate Debarment in Public Procurement	9
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks	9
SeaTE: Subjective ex ante Treatment Effect of Health on Retirement	9
Subways and Road Congestion	9
Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity	9
Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe	9
The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration	9
The Political Premium of Television Celebrity	8
Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration	8
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?	8
Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana	8
The Willingness to Pay for a Cooler Day: Evidence from 50 Years of Major League Baseball Games	8
Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft	8
Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors	8
Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine	7
The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the United States	7
Capital Markets in China and Britain, 1770–1860: Evidence from Grain Prices	7
Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany	7
Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Microgeographic Evidence from Chicago	7
Every Day Is Earth Day: Evidence on the Long-Term Impact of Environmental Activism	7
Physician Practice Organization and Negotiated Prices: Evidence from State Law Changes	7
The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intrafamily Expertise	6
Distortion by Audit: Evidence from Public Procurement	6
The High and Falling Price of Cement in Africa	6
Minority Salience and Political Extremism	6
Estimating the Distaste for Price Gouging with Incentivized Consumer Reports	5

Improving Last-Mile Service Delivery Using Phone-Based Monitoring	5
Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya	5
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality	5
The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias	5
Subways and Urban Air Pollution	5
Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964	5
Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates	5
A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495–1918	5
Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration	5
Lifetime Earnings in the United States over Six Decades	5
Does Cash Bail Deter Misconduct?	4
Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture	4
Staggered Difference-in-Differences in Gravity Settings: Revisiting the Effects of Trade Agreements	4
When Individual Politics Become Public: Do Civil Service Protections Insulate Government Workers?	4
Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh	4
Natural Resource Booms, Human Capital, and Earnings: Evidence from Linked Education and Employment Records	4
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being	4
“Too Young to Die”: Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality	4
Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing	4
Front Matter	4
What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States	4
Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836–2016	4
The Evolution of Local Labor Markets after Recessions	4
The Economic Incidence of Wildfire Suppression in the United States	4
Different Strokes for Different Folks? Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Varying Skills	3
Optimal Sin Taxation and Market Power	3
Historical Lynchings and the Contemporary Voting Behavior of Blacks	3
Front Matter	3
Maternal Dengue and Health Outcomes of Children	3
Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain	3
Activated History: The Case of the Turkish Sieges of Vienna	3
Family Formation and Crime	3
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups	3
How Effective Are Monetary Incentives to Vote? Evidence from a Nationwide Policy	3
Can Information Reduce Ethnic Discrimination? Evidence from Airbnb	3
Temporal Instability of Risk Preference among the Poor: Evidence from Payday Cycles	3
The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease	3
Schoolgirls, Not Brides: Education as a Shield against Child Marriage	3
Wealth Tax Mobility and Tax Coordination	3
Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time	3
Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data	2
Front Matter	2
Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets	2
Pathways into Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Practice Variation in Emergency Departments	2
The Human Capital Effects of Access to Elite Jobs	2
The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries	2
The Origins of Common Identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine	2
Front Matter	2
Uncovering Peer Effects in Social and Academic Skills	2
Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market	2
The Impact of Benefit Generosity on Workers’ Compensation Claims: Evidence and Implications	2
Does Discipline Decrease Police Misconduct? Evidence from Chicago Civilian Allegations	2
What Difference Does a Health Plan Make? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid	2
Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation	2
Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans	2
Temperature, Labor Reallocation, and Industrial Production: Evidence from India	2
The Impact of Income-Driven Repayment on Student Borrower Outcomes	2
Leave the Door Open? Prison Conditions and Recidivism	2