American Economic Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Economic Review is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter453
Monotonicity among Judges: Evidence from Judicial Panels and Consequences for Judge IV Designs320
Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry260
Quota versus Quality? Long-Term Gains from an Unusual Gender Quota214
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance202
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation200
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment195
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies193
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions171
Evaluating the Impact of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio169
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Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections151
Institution Building without Commitment150
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital144
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate144
Market Power and Capital Constraints141
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil136
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa130
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium128
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility126
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility125
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry124
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force118
Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets108
Conservation Priorities and Environmental Offsets: Markets for Florida Wetlands105
The Reversal Interest Rate104
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment97
A Long and a Short Leg Make for a Wobbly Equilibrium97
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers96
Comparisons of Signals93
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium92
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa92
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity90
Local Productivity Spillovers88
Managers and Public Hospital Performance79
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China79
Experimental Cost of Information78
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality77
Buying from a Group73
Front Matter73
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending73
Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall, and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics72
The Effect of Field Training Officers on Police Use of Force70
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field67
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits64
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature63
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design62
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children62
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit62
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda60
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds60
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error59
Understanding High-Wage Firms: Monopoly, Monopsony, and Bargaining Power58
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan58
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States57
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples57
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation57
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice53
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media53
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?53
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment52
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors52
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence52
Financial Frictions: Micro versus Macro Volatility52
Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intrahousehold Disease Spread52
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution51
Globalization and Pandemics51
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy50
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment50
The Immigrant Next Door50
Measuring Upward Mobility50
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting49
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment48
Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies48
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Report of Independent Auditor45
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Production and Financial Networks in Interplay43
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry43
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design43
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times43
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills43
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs42
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications42
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle41
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D41
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers40
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing40
Task-Based Discrimination39
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Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households39
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility39
Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan38
The Value of Software38
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Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice37
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A Discrimination Report Card37
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions37
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195337
Posterior Separable Cost of Information37
Negative Control Falsification Tests for Instrumental Variable Designs36
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market36
Politics at Work35
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Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium34
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What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?33
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Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202233
Monetary Cooperation during Global Inflation Surges33
Similarity of Information and Collective Action32
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending32
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure32
On Binscatter31
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment31
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?31
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity31
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice30
Selling Subscriptions30
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages30
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction29
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization29
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy29
Designing Dynamic Reassignment Mechanisms: Evidence from GP Allocation29
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions29
Equal Pay for Similar Work28
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets28
The Effect of Omitted Variables on the Sign of Regression Coefficients27
Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility27
Place-Based Redistribution26
The Aggregate Costs of Uninsurable Business Risk26
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias26
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans26
Front Matter25
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population25
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities25
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Mergers, Foreign Competition, and Jobs: Evidence from the US Appliance Industry25
The Voice of Monetary Policy25
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Crowding in School Choice24
Elite Universities and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital24
Loans for the “Little Fellow”: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression24
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being24
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea24
Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses, and Adverse Selection24
Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality24
Micro versus Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort24
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”23
Do Credit Conditions Move House Prices?23
RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital22
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?22
Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing22
Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity22
Start-Up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition22
Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth22
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Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development22
Test-Optional Admissions21
Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock21
Supply Network Formation and Fragility21
Making Bricks from Straw: Resources and Productivity in Health Care21
The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation21
Robust Monopoly Regulation21
Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness21
The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German (Hyper)Inflation21
Presidential Address: Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years20
The Cost of Information: The Case of Constant Marginal Costs20
Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India20
When Money Dies: The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations19
Regulation Design in Insurance Markets19
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement19
Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change: A Nearest-Neighbor Design19
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects19
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap19
Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey19
Valuing Long-Term Property Rights with Anticipated Political Regime Shifts19
The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household18
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA18
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations18
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health18
Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences18
Nobel Lecture: Paths to the Periphery18
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis17
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies17
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment17
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs17
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach17
Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals17
Populist Leaders and the Economy17
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France17
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For17
The Human Side of Structural Transformation17
First-Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks16
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Work from Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse16
Changing Income Risk across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter16
The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors: Comment16
Personalized Pricing and Competition16
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects15
Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development15
Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products15
The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid15
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness15
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality15
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Optimal Taxation and Market Power15
Experimentation in Networks14
Social Preferences over Ordinal Outcomes14
Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment14
Targeting Impact versus Deprivation14
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Technology Gaps, Trade, and Income14
Presidential Address: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis14
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment14
Monetary Policy and Rational Asset Price Bubbles: Comment14
Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants14
Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals14
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care14
Front Matter14
Optimal Monetary Policy According to HANK13
A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change13
When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains13
Consistent Evidence on Duration Dependence of Price Changes12
Self-Fulfilling Fluctuations in HANK Economies12
Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity12
Immigration, Innovation, and Growth12
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The Decline of Too Big to Fail12
Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban12
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence12
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV12
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss12
Curbing Leakage in Public Programs: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy12
A Theory of Price Caps on Nonrenewable Resources12
Did US Politicians Expect the China Shock?12
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities11
Trade with Correlation11
Dynamic Outside Options and Optimal Negotiation Strategies11
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The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments11
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission11
What You Don’t Know May Be Good for You11
Increasing Degree Attainment among Low-Income Students: The Role of Intensive Advising and College Quality11
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment10
The Comparative Statics of Sorting10
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