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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter2245
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions963
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance337
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies331
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment239
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments199
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia181
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation180
Front Matter176
Institution Building without Commitment171
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry161
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa149
Front Matter149
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate142
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital141
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil138
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force137
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility130
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium121
When Choices Are Mistakes120
Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections119
The Reversal Interest Rate118
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions112
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium110
Experimental Cost of Information105
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity104
Screening Inattentive Buyers103
Local Productivity Spillovers102
Comparisons of Signals101
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China97
Managers and Public Hospital Performance97
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers96
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors95
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending94
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment94
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality94
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa90
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature85
Front Matter85
Buying from a Group84
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States84
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children83
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media80
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field78
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda76
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines76
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples75
Monopsony in the US Labor Market75
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?74
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions73
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits72
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error71
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit71
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan71
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design69
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice68
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation68
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market67
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds67
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution66
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment66
The Immigrant Next Door65
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment63
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy59
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem58
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence57
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition56
Globalization and Pandemics56
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors56
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting56
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment55
Measuring Upward Mobility55
Front Matter53
Report of Independent Auditor53
Front Matter53
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing52
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle52
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households51
Task-Based Discrimination51
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times50
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States50
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications50
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers49
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills47
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design47
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs46
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade46
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility44
Front Matter44
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry44
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D44
Front Matter44
Front Matter43
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions43
The Value of Software43
A Discrimination Report Card43
Posterior Separable Cost of Information42
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195342
Front Matter41
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice41
Politics at Work41
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market41
Selling Subscriptions40
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure40
Front Matter40
Delegation in Veto Bargaining39
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202239
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice39
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity39
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending38
Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium38
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment38
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?37
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?37
On Binscatter36
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization36
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages35
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction34
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans33
A Special Introduction33
Place-Based Redistribution33
Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility33
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions32
Bargaining with Mechanisms32
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy32
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities31
The Voice of Monetary Policy31
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets31
Front Matter31
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias31
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Loans for the “Little Fellow”: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression30
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Optimal Insurance: Dual Utility, Random Losses, and Adverse Selection29
Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share29
Micro versus Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort29
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being29
Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality29
Do Credit Conditions Move House Prices?28
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”28
Crowding in School Choice28
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population28
How Do National Firms Respond to Local Cost Shocks?28
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea28
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China28
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?27
Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity27
Front Matter27
RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital26
Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development26
Optimal Policy under Dollar Pricing26
Robust Monopoly Regulation26
Test-Optional Admissions26
Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets26
The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation25
The Cost of Information: The Case of Constant Marginal Costs25
Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India25
State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy: The Refinancing Channel24
Start-Up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition24
Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock24
The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German (Hyper)Inflation24
Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness24
Supply Network Formation and Fragility23
Regulation Design in Insurance Markets22
Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change: A Nearest-Neighbor Design22
Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey22
When Money Dies: The Dynamics of Speculative Hyperinflations22
Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth22
Presidential Address: Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years22
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health21
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA21
Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism21
Valuing Long-Term Property Rights with Anticipated Political Regime Shifts21
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects21
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement21
Effective Demand Failures and the Limits of Monetary Stabilization Policy21
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR21
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach20
The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation20
The Human Side of Structural Transformation20
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies20
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment20
Nobel Lecture: Paths to the Periphery20
Changing Income Risk across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter19
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation19
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For19
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs19
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis19
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France19
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration19
Personalized Pricing and Competition19
Populist Leaders and the Economy18
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations18
Front Matter18
The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household18
Front Matter18
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness17
First-Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks17
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care17
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality17
Presidential Address: The Economist as Designer in the Innovation Process for Socially Impactful Digital Products17
Targeting Impact versus Deprivation17
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment16
Monetary Policy and Rational Asset Price Bubbles: Comment16
Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals16
Optimal Monetary Policy According to HANK16
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects16
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Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride16
Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–191116
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Presidential Address: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis16
Experimentation in Networks16
Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss15
A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change15
An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System15
When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains15
Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization15
Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment15
Technology Gaps, Trade, and Income14
Consistent Evidence on Duration Dependence of Price Changes14
Front Matter14
Curbing Leakage in Public Programs: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy14
The Decline of Too Big to Fail14
Trade with Correlation14
Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban14
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence13
Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity13
Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo13
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission13
Did US Politicians Expect the China Shock?13
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV12
A/B Contracts12
100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration12
Front Matter12
Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach12
Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda12
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities12
Monotone Function Intervals: Theory and Applications12
The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap12
Dynamic Outside Options and Optimal Negotiation Strategies12
The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments11
Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador11
Front Matter11
Increasing Degree Attainment among Low-Income Students: The Role of Intensive Advising and College Quality11
Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India11
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Counterfactuals with Latent Information11
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