American Economic Review

Papers
(The H4-Index of American Economic Review is 63. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter2143
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule908
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies322
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions322
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia222
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments195
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance174
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment172
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation172
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium164
Front Matter154
Institution Building without Commitment144
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry143
Front Matter139
When Choices Are Mistakes136
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions135
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital131
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force120
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa117
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility116
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil110
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate109
The Reversal Interest Rate105
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium104
Experimental Cost of Information101
Comparisons of Signals99
Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency99
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity98
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending95
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment95
Screening Inattentive Buyers95
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors89
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers89
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China88
Managers and Public Hospital Performance88
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa87
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality86
Local Productivity Spillovers84
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature82
Front Matter82
Buying from a Group81
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions80
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?79
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds77
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits76
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples75
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan74
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States73
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines72
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field72
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda71
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation70
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design70
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error70
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market69
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit68
Monopsony in the US Labor Market67
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice67
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment66
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence65
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting65
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition64
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors63
Globalization and Pandemics63
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