OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Economic Journal-Applied Economics is 3. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models	102
The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme	47
Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records	38
Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh	36
E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India	32
The Competitive Effects of Entry: Evidence from Supercenter Expansion	24
Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Microgeographic Evidence from Chicago	24
Subsidies and the African Green Revolution: Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique	24
The Elasticity of Science	24
The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States	23
Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey	23
Temperature, Labor Reallocation, and Industrial Production: Evidence from India	23
Turbulence, Firm Decentralization, and Growth in Bad Times	23
Subways and Urban Air Pollution	22
Uber versus Taxi: A Driver’s Eye View	22
Prestige Matters: Wage Premium and Value Addition in Elite Colleges	21
Subways and Road Congestion	21
What is the Added Value of Preschool for Poor Children? Long-Term and Intergenerational Impacts and Interactions with an Infant Health Intervention	20
Can Information Reduce Ethnic Discrimination? Evidence from Airbnb	18
Information Frictions, Internet, and the Relationship between Distance and Trade	18
One in a Million: Field Experiments on Perceived Closeness of the Election and Voter Turnout	16
The Value of Reference Letters: Experimental Evidence from South Africa	16
Job Displacement, Family Dynamics, and Spousal Labor Supply	16
The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill	15
Healthcare Demand under Simple Prices: Evidence from Tiered Hospital Networks	14

Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States?	14
Labor Market Returns to Vocational Secondary Education	14
The Impact of Insurance Expansions on the Already Insured: The Affordable Care Act and Medicare	14
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?	14
Rules for Recovery: Impact of Indexed Disaster Funds on Shock Coping in Mexico	13
LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training	13
The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income	13
Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major	12
The Power of Example: Corruption Spurs Corruption	12
A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?	12
Emotions and Risk Attitudes	12
Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya	11
Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care	11
Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality	11
DETER-ing Deforestation in the Amazon: Environmental Monitoring and Law Enforcement	10
Improving Last-Mile Service Delivery Using Phone-Based Monitoring	10
Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households	10
And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy	10
Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors	10
The Effects of DNA Databases on the Deterrence and Detection of Offenders	10
Minority Salience and Political Extremism	10
Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from US Mass Migration	9
Older Yet Fairer: How Extended Reproductive Time Horizons Reshaped Marriage Patterns in Israel	9
From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Antiminority Sentiment	9
The Economic Incidence of Wildfire Suppression in the United States	8
Physician Practice Organization and Negotiated Prices: Evidence from State Law Changes	8
War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance during World War II	8
The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions	8
Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance	8
Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets	8
The Not-So-Hot Melting Pot: The Persistence of Outcomes for Descendants of the Age of Mass Migration	8
Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes	8
Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap	7
Peer Effects in Product Adoption	7
Front-Loading the Unemployment Benefit: An Empirical Assessment	7
The Long-Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility	7
Infrastructure Costs	7
Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Health Care	7
Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans	7
Does Patient Demand Contribute to the Overuse of Prescription Drugs?	7
The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles	6
Temperature, Worker Productivity, and Adaptation: Evidence from Survey Data Production	6
Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India	6
School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States	6
Cell Phone Access and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design in Afghanistan	6
Breastfeeding and Child Development	6
Fenced Out: The Impact of Border Construction on US-Mexico Migration	6
African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880	6
A Dose of Managed Care: Controlling Drug Spending in Medicaid	6
What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States	6

Energy Saving May Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident	5
Hidden Income and the Perceived Returns to Migration	5
Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh	5
The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intrafamily Expertise	5
Employer Responses to Family Leave Programs	5
Leave the Door Open? Prison Conditions and Recidivism	5
Going Beneath the Surface: Petroleum Pollution, Regulation, and Health	5
The Impact of Information Technology on the Diffusion of New Pharmaceuticals	5
Winners and Losers? The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes	5
When Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution	5
Partisan Shocks and Financial Markets: Evidence from Close National Elections	5
The Black-White Gap in Noncognitive Skills among Elementary School Children	5
Increasing Access to Selective High Schools through Place-Based Affirmative Action: Unintended Consequences	5
Political Fragmentation and Government Stability: Evidence from Local Governments in Spain	4
Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Entry and Competition	4
“Too Young to Die”: Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality	4
Lifetime Earnings in the United States over Six Decades	4
Communication Infrastructure and Stabilizing Food Prices: Evidence from the Telegraph Network in China	4
The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Health Experiment	4
Pathways into Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Practice Variation in Emergency Departments	4
Multilateral Trade Bargaining: A First Look at the GATT Bargaining Records	4
Using Individual-Level Randomized Treatment to Learn about Market Structure	4
The Origins of Common Identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine	4
Historical Lynchings and the Contemporary Voting Behavior of Blacks	4
Gambling, Saving, and Lumpy Liquidity Needs	4
High School Majors and Future Earnings	3
The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure	3
Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications	3
Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836–2016	3
Formative Experiences and the Price of Gasoline	3
Finally a Smoking Gun? Compensating Differentials and the Introduction of Smoking Bans	3
Assortative Matching at the Top of the Distribution: Evidence from the World's Most Exclusive Marriage Market	3
How Effective Are Monetary Incentives to Vote? Evidence from a Nationwide Policy	3
Does Cash Bail Deter Misconduct?	3
Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”	3
The Round Trip Effect: Endogenous Transport Costs and International Trade	3
Using Nonlinear Budget Sets to Estimate Extensive Margin Responses: Method and Evidence from the Earnings Test	3
Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain	3