American Economic Review

Papers
(The H4-Index of American Economic Review is 60. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter1582
Auction Research Evolving: Theorems and Market Designs669
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule262
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments242
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment226
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance185
Security Transitions169
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation159
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia155
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions148
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies147
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium137
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil136
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry133
Institution Building without Commitment129
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa120
Front Matter115
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate114
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital112
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force111
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions107
When Choices Are Mistakes102
The Role of Behavioral Frictions in Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment and Risk: Evidence from a Field Experiment101
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility100
The Reversal Interest Rate96
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment93
Digital Dystopia89
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa86
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality84
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors84
Comparisons of Signals83
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China78
Screening Inattentive Buyers78
Experimental Cost of Information78
Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency78
Local Productivity Spillovers78
Five Facts about Beliefs and Portfolios77
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers77
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity75
Front Matter75
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits74
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds73
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error72
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation70
Buying from a Group69
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design68
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit67
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines66
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda66
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan66
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice65
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market65
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field65
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature64
Monopsony in the US Labor Market64
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?63
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples63
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions62
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States62
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution60
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment60
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem60
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