American Economic Review

Article	Citations
Measuring Geopolitical Risk	1111
Synthetic Difference-in-Differences	441
Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment	267
Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages?	222
Arrival of Young Talent: The Send-Down Movement and Rural Education in China	193
From Extreme to Mainstream: The Erosion of Social Norms	192
Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China	167
The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Supply News: Evidence from OPEC Announcements	158
Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools	157
Social Media and Mental Health	154
Methods Matter: p-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics	151
Five Facts about Beliefs and Portfolios	146
Can Network Theory-Based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?	128
Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration	127
Knowledge Spillovers and Corporate Investment in Scientific Research	125
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV	122
Supply and Demand in Disaggregated Keynesian Economies with an Application to the COVID-19 Crisis	113
Aggregate Nominal Wage Adjustments: New Evidence from Administrative Payroll Data	105
Labor Market Power	103
Small and Large Firms over the Business Cycle	101
On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms	100
Employer Consolidation and Wages: Evidence from Hospitals	94
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market	92
The Effect of ­High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors	90
Changing Business Dynamism and Productivity: Shocks versus Responsiveness	88

Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration	87
Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India	87
Closing the Gap: The Effect of Reducing Complexity and Uncertainty in College Pricing on the Choices of Low-Income Students	85
Unwatched Pollution: The Effect of Intermittent Monitoring on Air Quality	85
A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing	83
Digital Addiction	82
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”	79
Going Negative at the Zero Lower Bound: The Effects of Negative Nominal Interest Rates	76
Public Procurement in Law and Practice	75
Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy: A Local Labor Market Approach	75
Competition and Entry in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya	74
The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa	73
The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers: Evidence from Switzerland	72
A Model of Competing Narratives	72
Exchange Rates and Prices: Evidence from the 2015 Swiss Franc Appreciation	70
The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health, and Labor Market Outcomes	69
Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration	68
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility	67
Daily Labor Supply and Adaptive Reference Points	67
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence	66
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the United States over Two Centuries	66
Asymmetric Consumption Smoothing	65
Monopsony in the US Labor Market	64
The Nature of Firm Growth	64
How Well Targeted Are Soda Taxes?	63
Asymmetric Attention	62
Feedbacks: Financial Markets and Economic Activity	62
The Risk-Adjusted Carbon Price	58
Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship Practices	58
Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in Nineteenth-Century France	58
Job Seekers’ Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence, and Bias	57
Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility	56
Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services	56
Reference Points for Retirement Behavior: Evidence from German Pension Discontinuities	55
The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio	55
Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls	55
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis	55
Equilibrium Technology Diffusion, Trade, and Growth	54
Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries	54
Supply Network Formation and Fragility	53
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China	53
Belief Distortions and Macroeconomic Fluctuations	53
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households	52
Myopia and Anchoring	52
What Makes a Rule Complex?	49
Using Models to Persuade	49
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages	48
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables	48
Venting Out: Exports during a Domestic Slump	48
How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities	47

Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin	47
Digitization and Pre-Purchase Information: The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings	47
Who Set Your Wage?	47
From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws	47
Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy	46
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation	46
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population	45
Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina	44
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers	44
Mortgage Prepayment and Path-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy	43
What Motivates Paternalism? An Experimental Study	43
Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System	43
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China	42
Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency	42
Speculative Fever: Investor Contagion in the Housing Bubble	41
Populist Leaders and the Economy	41
Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique	41
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Energy Subsidies	41
The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap	41
Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets, and Agricultural Production	41
An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System	40
Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	40
Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing	39
The Voice of Monetary Policy	39
Inattention and Switching Costs as Sources of Inertia in Medicare Part D	39
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia	39
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa	39
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions	38
Judging Judge Fixed Effects	38
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility	38
The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry: The Case of Airbnb and the Accommodation Industry	38
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions	38
Missing Events in Event Studies: Identifying the Effects of Partially Measured News Surprises	37
Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Employment and Pay Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil	37
Market Fragmentation	37
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market	36
Concentration Thresholds for Horizontal Mergers	36
State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy: The Refinancing Channel	36
Digital Dystopia	35
Leadership in Social Movements: Evidence from the “Forty-Eighters” in the Civil War	35
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines	35
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality	35
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities	35
Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride	35
The Role of Behavioral Frictions in Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment and Risk: Evidence from a Field Experiment	35
The Selection of Talent: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia	35
The Financial Transmission of Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain	34
Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work	34
Wetlands, Flooding, and the Clean Water Act	34
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions	33
When Choices Are Mistakes	33
Rank Uncertainty in Organizations	33
The Impacts of a Multifaceted Prenatal Intervention on Human Capital Accumulation in Early Life	33
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War	33
Parental Resources and College Attendance: Evidence from Lottery Wins	32
Selling Consumer Data for Profit: Optimal ­Market-Segmentation Design and Its Consequences	32
The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources: Evidence from Germany	32
A Theory of Chosen Preferences	31
Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays	31
Hospital Network Competition and Adverse Selection: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange	31
The Reversal Interest Rate	30
Impacts of Performance Pay for Hospitals: The Readmissions Reduction Program	30
Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil	30
Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Citizen Participation on Environmental Governance in China	29
Politically Feasible Reforms of Nonlinear Tax Systems	29
Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share	29
Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field	29
The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia’s National Health Insurance	29
Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism	28
The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending	28
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition	27
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs	27
Lapse-Based Insurance	26
Mistakes, Overconfidence, and the Effect of Sharing on Detecting Lies	25
Effective Demand Failures and the Limits of Monetary Stabilization Policy	25
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills	25
From Mad Men to Maths Men: Concentration and Buyer Power in Online Advertising	24
Discounts and Deadlines in Consumer Search	24
The Economic Consequences of Bankruptcy Reform	24
Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools	24

Discrete Choice under Risk with Limited Consideration	23
Oligopolistic Price Leadership and Mergers: The United States Beer Industry	23
Does Context Outweigh Individual Characteristics in Driving Voting Behavior? Evidence from Relocations within the United States	23
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?	22
When Losses Turn into Loans: The Cost of Weak Banks	22
Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–1911	22
How Do National Firms Respond to Local Cost Shocks?	22
Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization	22
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation	22
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss	22
The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp	22
The Cost of Information: The Case of Constant Marginal Costs	21
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness	21
How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act	21
Lumpy Investment, Business Cycles, and Stimulus Policy	21
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement	21
Capital Gains Taxes and Real Corporate Investment: Evidence from Korea	21
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment	21
Labor Rationing	20
Market Power and Innovation in the Intangible Economy	20
When Should There Be Vertical Choice in Health Insurance Markets?	20
Human Capital Depreciation and Returns to Experience	20
Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature	20
The Immigrant Next Door	19
The Human Side of Structural Transformation	19
Targeting In-Kind Transfers through Market Design: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Public Housing Allocation	19
The Matching Multiplier and the Amplification of Recessions	19
Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from Four Field Experiments	19
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence	19
The Efficiency of Race-Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action: Evidence from Chicago’s Exam Schools	19
Persuasion through Slanted Language: Evidence from the Media Coverage of Immigration	18
Neighborhood-Based Information Costs	18
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes among Adolescents	18
Design-Based Research in Empirical Microeconomics	18
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health	18
Convex Supply Curves	18
Optimality of Matched-Pair Designs in Randomized Controlled Trials	18
The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice	18
Globalization and Pandemics	18
Fictional Money, Real Costs: Impacts of Financial Salience on Disadvantaged Students	18
Optimal Monetary Policy According to HANK	18
Cross-Region Transfer Multipliers in a Monetary Union: Evidence from Social Security and Stimulus Payments	18
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment	17
Risk-Based Selection in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence and Implications	17
Security Transitions	17
RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital	17
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate	17
The Impact of Childhood Social Skills and Self-Control Training on Economic and Noneconomic Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Using Administrative Data	17
Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda	17
Jobs for Sale: Corruption and Misallocation in Hiring	17
Identifying Present Bias from the Timing of Choices	16
Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness	16
The Economic Origins of Government	16
Experimental Cost of Information	16
Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market	16
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade	16
Productivity Shocks, Long-Term Contracts, and Earnings Dynamics	16
Trade with Correlation	16
Technology Gaps, Trade, and Income	16
Profits, Scale Economies, and the Gains from Trade and Industrial Policy	16
Dynamic Matching in Overloaded Waiting Lists	16
Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals	16
Mobility and Congestion in Urban India	15
Vulnerability and Clientelism	15
Screening and Selection: The Case of Mammograms	15
America, Jump-Started: World War II R&D and the Takeoff of the US Innovation System	15
Subjective Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior: Evidence from China	15
Quantifying the Supply Response of Private Schools to Public Policies	14
Incentive Constrained Risk Sharing, Segmentation, and Asset Pricing	14
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors	14
Immigration and Spatial Equilibrium: The Role of Expenditures in the Country of Origin	14
Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador	14
Auction Research Evolving: Theorems and Market Designs	14
Projection of Private Values in Auctions	14
Reconciliation Narratives:The Birth of a Nationafter the US Civil War	14
Incomplete Information Bargaining with Applications to Mergers, Investment, and Vertical Integration	13
Mobilizing the Masses for Genocide	13
Is There Too Much Benchmarking in Asset Management?	13
Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing	13
Posterior Separable Cost of Information	13
Sectoral Media Focus and Aggregate Fluctuations	12
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule	12
Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets	12
What to Expect from the Lower Bound on Interest Rates: Evidence from Derivatives Prices	12
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations	12
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem	12
On Binscatter	12
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach	12
An Experiment in Candidate Selection	12
Behavioral Constraints on the Design of Subgame-Perfect Implementation Mechanisms	12