American Economic Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Economic Review is 11. 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
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment59
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence58
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition56
Globalization and Pandemics55
The Immigrant Next Door55
Measuring Upward Mobility55
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting55
How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities54
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy54
Front Matter54
Report of Independent Auditor53
Front Matter53
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle52
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design51
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times51
An Experiment in Candidate Selection51
Task-Based Discrimination50
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills50
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States49
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade49
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs49
Front Matter48
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D48
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing48
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility48
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households48
A Discrimination Report Card47
Front Matter46
Front Matter45
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice44
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market43
Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools43
Posterior Separable Cost of Information43
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables43
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195343
Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin42
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure42
Front Matter42
How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Booking Systems41
Front Matter41
Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market40
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending40
Delegation in Veto Bargaining40
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment40
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?39
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity39
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202239
On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms38
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War38
On Binscatter38
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages36
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization36
Selling Subscriptions35
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?35
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice35
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets34
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy34
Bargaining with Mechanisms34
A Special Introduction34
From Mad Men to Maths Men: Concentration and Buyer Power in Online Advertising33
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction33
Adverse and Advantageous Selection in the Laboratory33
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias32
The Voice of Monetary Policy32
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities32
Front Matter31
Loans for the “Little Fellow”: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression31
Front Matter31
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans31
Crowding in School Choice31
Front Matter31
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions31
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?30
Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality30
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea29
Front Matter28
The Selection of Talent: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia28
Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity27
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being27
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population26
Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses, and Adverse Selection26
How Do National Firms Respond to Local Cost Shocks?26
Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share26
RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital25
Front Matter25
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”25
Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock25
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China25
Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing24
Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth24
Supply Network Formation and Fragility24
Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India24
Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness24
The Cost of Information: The Case of Constant Marginal Costs24
The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation24
Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets24
Robust Monopoly Regulation24
Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey23
Start-Up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition23
Projection of Private Values in Auctions23
Presidential Address: Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years23
Regulation Design in Insurance Markets23
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement23
State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy: The Refinancing Channel23
Valuing Long-Term Property Rights with Anticipated Political Regime Shifts22
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health22
When Money Dies: The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations22
Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism22
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects22
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR21
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA21
Effective Demand Failures and the Limits of Monetary Stabilization Policy21
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment20
Personalized Pricing and Competition20
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis20
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs20
The Human Side of Structural Transformation20
The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation20
The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household20
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies20
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration19
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation19
Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration19
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach19
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For19
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations19
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care18
Populist Leaders and the Economy18
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness18
Front Matter18
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France18
Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products18
Front Matter18
Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–191117
Front Matter17
Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals17
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality17
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment17
Front Matter17
Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy: A Local Labor Market Approach17
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects17
Front Matter17
When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains16
An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System16
Experimentation in Networks16
Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization16
Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment16
Optimal Monetary Policy According to HANK16
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss16
A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change16
Presidential Address: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis15
Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride15
Digitization and Pre-Purchase Information: The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings15
Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China15
Technology Gaps, Trade, and Income15
Curbing Leakage in Public Programs: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy14
Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo14
Did US Politicians Expect the China Shock?14
Feedbacks: Financial Markets and Economic Activity14
The Decline of Too Big to Fail14
The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia’s National Health Insurance14
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission14
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV14
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence14
Front Matter14
Trade with Correlation14
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities14
Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity14
Monotone Function Intervals: Theory and Applications13
Discrete Choice under Risk with Limited Consideration13
A/B Contracts13
Front Matter13
Venting Out: Exports during a Domestic Slump12
Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador12
Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda12
Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Employment and Pay Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil12
The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments12
Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India12
Dynamic Outside Options and Optimal Negotiation Strategies12
Counterfactuals with Latent Information12
The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap11
The Effect of ­High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors11
Front Matter11
Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach11
Inattention and Switching Costs as Sources of Inertia in Medicare Part D11
100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration11
Closing the Gap: The Effect of Reducing Complexity and Uncertainty in College Pricing on the Choices of Low-Income Students11
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment11
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