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 2021-09-01 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
Front Matter133
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force133
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
Comparisons of Signals91
Experimental Cost of Information91
Screening Inattentive Buyers90
Local Productivity Spillovers90
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers89
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors89
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium89
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
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?76
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature76
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error75
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda75
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan73
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines72
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds72
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
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field71
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
Measuring Upward Mobility62
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting62
Globalization and Pandemics60
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment60
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition60
The Immigrant Next Door58
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem58
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors58
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment56
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence55
Report of Independent Auditor54
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Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design52
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D52
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle52
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade50
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States49
Task-Based Discrimination49
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times49
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs49
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills48
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households47
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility47
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry47
Front Matter46
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing46
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The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195344
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice43
Posterior Separable Cost of Information42
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market41
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables40
A Discrimination Report Card40
Front Matter40
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions40
Front Matter40
Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin40
Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market39
On Binscatter38
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity38
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure37
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?37
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice37
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending36
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?36
Delegation in Veto Bargaining36
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202236
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization36
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment36
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages35
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction35
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War35
A Special Introduction35
Selling Subscriptions35
Bargaining with Mechanisms35
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions34
From Mad Men to Maths Men: Concentration and Buyer Power in Online Advertising33
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans33
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets33
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias32
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy32
The Voice of Monetary Policy32
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities32
Front Matter31
Crowding in School Choice31
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Loans for the “Little Fellow”: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression30
Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses, and Adverse Selection29
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Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being29
Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity28
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population28
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea28
How Do National Firms Respond to Local Cost Shocks?28
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?28
Front Matter27
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”27
RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital27
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China27
Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share27
Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality27
Micro versus Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort27
Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness26
The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German (Hyper)Inflation26
Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock26
Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets26
The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation25
The Cost of Information: The Case of Constant Marginal Costs25
Presidential Address: Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years25
State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy: The Refinancing Channel25
Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing25
Start-Up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition25
Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development24
Test-Optional Admissions24
Robust Monopoly Regulation24
Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth24
Supply Network Formation and Fragility23
Valuing Long-Term Property Rights with Anticipated Political Regime Shifts23
Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India23
Regulation Design in Insurance Markets23
Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism22
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement22
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects22
When Money Dies: The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations22
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA22
Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey22
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health22
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR21
Effective Demand Failures and the Limits of Monetary Stabilization Policy21
Nobel Lecture: Paths to the Periphery21
Projection of Private Values in Auctions21
The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household20
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation20
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach20
Personalized Pricing and Competition20
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment20
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies20
The Human Side of Structural Transformation20
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For20
The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation20
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France19
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations19
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis19
Front Matter18
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment18
Populist Leaders and the Economy18
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration18
Front Matter18
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs18
Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products18
Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–191117
Front Matter17
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects17
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care17
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness17
Front Matter17
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality17
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Targeting Impact versus Deprivation17
Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment16
A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change16
An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System16
Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization16
Monetary Policy and Rational Asset Price Bubbles: Comment16
Optimal Monetary Policy According to HANK16
Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals16
Presidential Address: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis16
Experimentation in Networks16
Technology Gaps, Trade, and Income16
Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride15
The Decline of Too Big to Fail15
When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains15
Front Matter15
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss15
Trade with Correlation14
Did US Politicians Expect the China Shock?14
Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity14
Curbing Leakage in Public Programs: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy14
The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia’s National Health Insurance14
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities14
Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo14
Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban14
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission14
Front Matter13
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence13
Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach13
Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador13
Counterfactuals with Latent Information13
Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India13
A/B Contracts13
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV13
The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments13
The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap13
Monotone Function Intervals: Theory and Applications12
Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda12
Dynamic Outside Options and Optimal Negotiation Strategies12
100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration12
Inattention and Switching Costs as Sources of Inertia in Medicare Part D12
Venting Out: Exports during a Domestic Slump12
Power Flows: Transmission Lines, Allocative Efficiency, and Corporate Profits11
Worth Your Weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesity in Low-Income Countries11
Prudential Policy with Distorted Beliefs11
Separating Ownership and Information11
Fiscal Policy and Credit Supply in a Crisis11
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment11
Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature11
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