American Economic Review

Papers
(The TQCC of American Economic Review is 29. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter421
Monotonicity among Judges: Evidence from Judicial Panels and Consequences for Judge IV Designs306
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions233
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies202
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance198
Evaluating the Impact of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio179
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment179
Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry179
Quota versus Quality? Long-Term Gains from an Unusual Gender Quota174
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation159
Front Matter158
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa153
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium151
Front Matter150
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry146
Market Power and Capital Constraints138
Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections137
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital136
Conservation Priorities and Environmental Offsets: Markets for Florida Wetlands134
When Choices Are Mistakes133
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate124
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility121
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil118
Institution Building without Commitment116
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility115
The Reversal Interest Rate114
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force107
Screening Inattentive Buyers104
Experimental Cost of Information102
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality97
Managers and Public Hospital Performance96
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium92
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers92
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa91
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment89
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China87
Local Productivity Spillovers87
Comparisons of Signals87
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity84
A Long and a Short Leg Make for a Wobbly Equilibrium83
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending82
Front Matter75
Buying from a Group73
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation73
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States70
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda68
Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall, and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics67
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits66
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan66
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples66
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature66
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children65
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice62
The Effect of Field Training Officers on Police Use of Force61
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design61
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field60
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media59
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit59
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?57
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error55
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds55
Monopsony in the US Labor Market55
Measuring Upward Mobility54
Financial Frictions: Micro versus Macro Volatility54
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy53
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors52
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment52
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment52
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution51
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence50
Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem50
The Immigrant Next Door50
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting48
Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies48
Globalization and Pandemics48
Report of Independent Auditor47
Front Matter47
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment47
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle46
Front Matter46
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design45
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications45
Task-Based Discrimination44
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs43
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times43
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D42
Production and Financial Networks in Interplay42
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households42
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry41
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers40
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility40
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills40
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing40
Front Matter39
Front Matter38
Front Matter38
The Value of Software37
Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan37
A Discrimination Report Card37
Politics at Work36
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market36
Negative Control Falsification Tests for Instrumental Variable Designs36
Posterior Separable Cost of Information36
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions36
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice35
Front Matter35
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195335
Front Matter35
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Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure34
Selling Subscriptions34
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?34
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment33
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice33
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202232
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending32
Similarity of Information and Collective Action32
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?32
Monetary Cooperation during Global Inflation Surges31
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization31
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity31
Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium30
On Binscatter30
Front Matter29
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions29
Bargaining with Mechanisms29
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages29
Place-Based Redistribution29
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