American Economic Review

Papers
(The H4-Index of American Economic Review is 62. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter1942
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule830
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies297
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment295
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments198
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance181
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation163
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions160
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia159
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium154
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil151
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa144
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force133
Front Matter133
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry126
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital126
Institution Building without Commitment123
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate120
When Choices Are Mistakes105
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility105
Front Matter104
The Reversal Interest Rate98
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions95
Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency93
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity92
Experimental Cost of Information91
Comparisons of Signals91
Screening Inattentive Buyers90
Local Productivity Spillovers90
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium89
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers89
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors89
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment86
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending85
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China84
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa83
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality80
Front Matter79
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature76
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?76
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda75
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error75
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan73
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds72
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines72
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field71
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples71
Buying from a Group71
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States71
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions71
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design69
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit69
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation68
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice67
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market67
Monopsony in the US Labor Market66
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy65
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits65
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment64
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution63
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting62
Measuring Upward Mobility62
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