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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News	1508
Front Matter	637
When Should There Be Vertical Choice in Health Insurance Markets?	256
The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation	230
Impacts of Performance Pay for Hospitals: The Readmissions Reduction Program	217
Front Matter	200
How to Use Natural Experiments to Estimate Misallocation	173
Front Matter	165
The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making inside the Household	152
Front Matter	149
Empowering Adolescents to Transform Schools: Lessons from a Behavioral Targeting	144
Front Matter	134
Learning from Manipulable Signals	134
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market	130
Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment	125
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR	125
Front Matter	115
Front Matter	110
Front Matter	109
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations	107
Selling Consumer Data for Profit: Optimal Market-Segmentation Design and Its Consequences	104
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 1953	103
Smart Contracts and the Coase Conjecture	100
Front Matter	98
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies	93

Quality Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Taste Projection in Markets with Observational Learning	92
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies	89
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For	88
Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital: Comment	84
Market Fragmentation	80
Security Transitions	79
Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia	78
A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh	78
Front Matter	77
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance	76
A Discrimination Report Card	76
Front Matter	75
When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in US Electricity Generation: Reply	75
Motivated Errors	73
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments	73
Evaluating Deliberative Competence: A Simple Method with an Application to Financial Choice	73
Wetlands, Flooding, and the Clean Water Act	70
Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technical Change	69
Mental Models and Learning: The Case of Base-Rate Neglect	69
Disentangling Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection	67
Design-Based Research in Empirical Microeconomics	67
Unobserved-Offers Bargaining	67
Dynamic Amnesty Programs	66
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France	66
Who Set Your Wage?	65
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis	64
Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from Four Field Experiments	64
Optimally Imprecise Memory and Biased Forecasts	63
Belief Distortions and Macroeconomic Fluctuations	62
Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy	62
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice	61
Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools	61
The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach	60
Cross-Region Transfer Multipliers in a Monetary Union: Evidence from Social Security and Stimulus Payments	60
Front Matter	57
The Real State: Inside the Congo’s Traffic Police Agency	57
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation	57
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs	57
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation	57
Evidence and Lessons on the Health Impacts of Public Health Funding from the Fight against HIV/AIDS	55
Posterior Separable Cost of Information	55
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions	54
The Human Side of Structural Transformation	54
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration	53
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment	53
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia	52
Jobs for Sale: Corruption and Misallocation in Hiring	52
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables	51
Personalized Pricing and Competition	51
Auction Research Evolving: Theorems and Market Designs	50

The Risk-Adjusted Carbon Price	49
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment	49
Financial Technology Adoption: Network Externalities of Cashless Payments in Mexico	49
Myopia and Anchoring	49
Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration	48
Measuring Geopolitical Risk	48
Populist Leaders and the Economy	47
The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa	46
Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin	46
Revealing Choice Bracketing	46
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule	46
Labor Rationing	45
Employer Incentives and Distortions in Health Insurance Design: Implications for Welfare and Costs	45
Droughts, Deluges, and (River) Diversions: Valuing Market-Based Water Reallocation	44
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium	43
Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care	43
The Role of Behavioral Frictions in Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment and Risk: Evidence from a Field Experiment	42
Front Matter	42
Front Matter	42
Front Matter	42
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Market Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Reply	41
Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market	41
Implementation by Vote-Buying Mechanisms	41
Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency	40
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate	40
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry	39
Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment	38
Front Matter	38
Optimal Procurement with Quality Concerns	38
Front Matter	38
Dynamic Price Competition, Learning-by-Doing, and Strategic Buyers	38
Front Matter	37
Institution Building without Commitment	37
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force	37
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes among Adolescents	36
Welfare Comparisons for Biased Learning	36
Justified Communication Equilibrium	35
How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Booking Systems	35
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–2022	35
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects	35
Front Matter	34
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure	34
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending	34
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa	33
In-Kind Transfers as Insurance	33
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity	32
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality	32
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Energy Subsidies	32
Parental Resources and College Attendance: Evidence from Lottery Wins	31
Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness	31