OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Economic Review is 31. 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.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	2245
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions	963
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance	337
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies	331
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment	239
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments	199
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia	181
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation	180
Front Matter	176
Institution Building without Commitment	171
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry	161
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa	149
Front Matter	149
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate	142
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital	141
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil	138
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force	137
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility	130
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium	121
When Choices Are Mistakes	120
Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections	119
The Reversal Interest Rate	118
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions	112
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium	110
Experimental Cost of Information	105

All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity	104
Screening Inattentive Buyers	103
Local Productivity Spillovers	102
Comparisons of Signals	101
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China	97
Managers and Public Hospital Performance	97
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers	96
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors	95
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending	94
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment	94
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality	94
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa	90
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature	85
Front Matter	85
Buying from a Group	84
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States	84
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children	83
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media	80
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field	78
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines	76
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda	76
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples	75
Monopsony in the US Labor Market	75
When Do Nudges Increase Welfare?	74
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions	73
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits	72
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error	71
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit	71
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan	71
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design	69
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice	68
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation	68
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market	67
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds	67
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution	66
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment	66
The Immigrant Next Door	65
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment	63
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy	59
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem	58
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence	57
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition	56
Globalization and Pandemics	56
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors	56
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting	56
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment	55
Measuring Upward Mobility	55
Front Matter	53
Report of Independent Auditor	53
Front Matter	53

The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing	52
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle	52
Task-Based Discrimination	51
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households	51
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications	50
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times	50
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States	50
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers	49
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills	47
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design	47
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs	46
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade	46
Front Matter	44
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry	44
Front Matter	44
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D	44
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility	44
The Value of Software	43
A Discrimination Report Card	43
Front Matter	43
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions	43
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 1953	42
Posterior Separable Cost of Information	42
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market	41
Front Matter	41
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice	41
Politics at Work	41
Front Matter	40
Selling Subscriptions	40
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure	40
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–2022	39
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice	39
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity	39
Delegation in Veto Bargaining	39
Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium	38
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment	38
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending	38
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?	37
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?	37
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization	36
On Binscatter	36
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages	35
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction	34
Place-Based Redistribution	33
Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility	33
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans	33
A Special Introduction	33
Bargaining with Mechanisms	32
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy	32
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions	32
Front Matter	31
Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias	31
Front Matter	31
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities	31
The Voice of Monetary Policy	31
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets	31