American Economic Review

Papers
(The H4-Index of American Economic Review is 58. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter409
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance366
Evaluating the Impact of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio295
Monotonicity among Judges: Evidence from Judicial Panels and Consequences for Judge IV Designs225
Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry203
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies194
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment189
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments174
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation172
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions169
Front Matter168
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium155
Front Matter151
Institution Building without Commitment148
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital147
Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections141
The Reversal Interest Rate138
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa133
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry133
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility130
Market Power and Capital Constraints129
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil129
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate119
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility118
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force115
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity115
When Choices Are Mistakes115
Screening Inattentive Buyers115
A Long and a Short Leg Make for a Wobbly Equilibrium114
Managers and Public Hospital Performance104
Comparisons of Signals99
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China97
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium95
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers94
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa92
Local Productivity Spillovers89
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment89
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality86
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending85
Experimental Cost of Information85
Front Matter84
Buying from a Group82
Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall, and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics81
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits78
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan75
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error73
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation72
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda67
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States66
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature66
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples65
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit65
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field64
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice64
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds63
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?60
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media60
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design59
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children58
Monopsony in the US Labor Market58
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