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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	2143
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule	908
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions	322
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies	322
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia	222
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments	195
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance	174
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment	172
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation	172
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium	164
Front Matter	154
Institution Building without Commitment	144
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry	143
Front Matter	139
When Choices Are Mistakes	136
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions	135
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital	131
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force	120
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa	117
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility	116
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil	110
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate	109
The Reversal Interest Rate	105
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium	104
Experimental Cost of Information	101

Bargaining under the Illusion of Transparency	99
Comparisons of Signals	99
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity	98
Screening Inattentive Buyers	95
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending	95
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment	95
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers	89
Team-Specific Human Capital and Team Performance: Evidence from Doctors	89
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China	88
Managers and Public Hospital Performance	88
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa	87
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality	86
Local Productivity Spillovers	84
Front Matter	82
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature	82
Buying from a Group	81
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions	80
When Do Nudges Increase Welfare?	79
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds	77
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits	76
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples	75
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan	74
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States	73
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field	72
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines	72
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda	71
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error	70
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation	70
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design	70
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market	69
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit	68
Monopsony in the US Labor Market	67
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice	67
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment	66
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence	65
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting	65
Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition	64
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors	63
Globalization and Pandemics	63
Measuring Upward Mobility	60
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment	58
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment	58
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution	56
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy	56
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem	55
The Immigrant Next Door	55
Front Matter	55
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry	53
Report of Independent Auditor	53
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design	52

Front Matter	51
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle	50
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States	50
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times	49
Task-Based Discrimination	49
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs	49
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications	48
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households	47
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers	46
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills	45
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade	45
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing	44
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D	44
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility	44
Front Matter	44
Front Matter	43
Front Matter	42
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice	42
Politics at Work	42
The Value of Software	41
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions	41
A Discrimination Report Card	41
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables	41
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market	40
Posterior Separable Cost of Information	40
Front Matter	40
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 1953	40
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure	39
Front Matter	39
Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium	39
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment	38
On Binscatter	38
Selling Subscriptions	38
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice	37
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages	37
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?	37
Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market	37
The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War	37
Delegation in Veto Bargaining	36
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?	35
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity	34
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–2022	34
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending	34
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization	34
A Special Introduction	33
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction	33
Place-Based Redistribution	32
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions	32
In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities	31
The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets	31
The Voice of Monetary Policy	31