American Economic Review

Papers
(The TQCC of American Economic Review is 35. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Measuring Geopolitical Risk1078
Synthetic Difference-in-Differences441
Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure427
Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment267
Misperceived Social Norms: Women Working Outside the Home in Saudi Arabia262
Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing, and Collusion233
Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages?221
From Extreme to Mainstream: The Erosion of Social Norms192
Arrival of Young Talent: The Send-Down Movement and Rural Education in China189
Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China167
Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools157
The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Supply News: Evidence from OPEC Announcements155
Social Media and Mental Health154
Methods Matter: p-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics151
Five Facts about Beliefs and Portfolios146
Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations139
Can Network Theory-Based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?128
Sources of Inaction in Household Finance: Evidence from the Danish Mortgage Market127
Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration127
Knowledge Spillovers and Corporate Investment in Scientific Research125
Valid t-ratio Inference for IV122
Supply and Demand in Disaggregated Keynesian Economies with an Application to the COVID-19 Crisis112
Aggregate Nominal Wage Adjustments: New Evidence from Administrative Payroll Data105
Labor Market Power103
Small and Large Firms over the Business Cycle101
On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms100
Liquidity versus Wealth in Household Debt Obligations: Evidence from Housing Policy in the Great Recession100
Business-Cycle Anatomy97
Sources of Displaced Workers’ Long-Term Earnings Losses96
Employer Consolidation and Wages: Evidence from Hospitals94
Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market92
The Effect of ­High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors90
Changing Business Dynamism and Productivity: Shocks versus Responsiveness88
Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India87
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration87
Unwatched Pollution: The Effect of Intermittent Monitoring on Air Quality85
Closing the Gap: The Effect of Reducing Complexity and Uncertainty in College Pricing on the Choices of Low-Income Students85
A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing83
Digital Addiction82
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”78
Going Negative at the Zero Lower Bound: The Effects of Negative Nominal Interest Rates76
Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy: A Local Labor Market Approach75
Public Procurement in Law and Practice75
Competition and Entry in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya74
The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa73
The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers: Evidence from Switzerland72
A Model of Competing Narratives72
Exchange Rates and Prices: Evidence from the 2015 Swiss Franc Appreciation70
The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health, and Labor Market Outcomes68
Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration68
Daily Labor Supply and Adaptive Reference Points67
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility67
The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence66
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the United States over Two Centuries66
Asymmetric Consumption Smoothing65
Monopsony in the US Labor Market64
The Nature of Firm Growth64
How Well Targeted Are Soda Taxes?63
Asymmetric Attention62
Feedbacks: Financial Markets and Economic Activity61
Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship Practices58
Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in Nineteenth-Century France58
The Risk-Adjusted Carbon Price58
Job Seekers’ Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence, and Bias57
Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services56
Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility56
Reference Points for Retirement Behavior: Evidence from German Pension Discontinuities55
The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio55
Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls55
Equilibrium Technology Diffusion, Trade, and Growth54
Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries54
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China53
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis53
Supply Network Formation and Fragility53
Belief Distortions and Macroeconomic Fluctuations53
Myopia and Anchoring52
What Makes a Rule Complex?49
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households49
Using Models to Persuade49
The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables48
Venting Out: Exports during a Domestic Slump48
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages48
Digitization and Pre-Purchase Information: The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings47
Who Set Your Wage?47
From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws47
How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities47
Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin47
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation46
Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy46
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population45
Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina44
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers44
Mortgage Prepayment and Path-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy43
What Motivates Paternalism? An Experimental Study43
Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System43
Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency42
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China42
Populist Leaders and the Economy41
Speculative Fever: Investor Contagion in the Housing Bubble41
Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets, and Agricultural Production41
Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique41
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Energy Subsidies41
The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap41
An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System40
Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo40
Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing39
The Voice of Monetary Policy39
Inattention and Switching Costs as Sources of Inertia in Medicare Part D39
Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia39
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa39
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility38
Judging Judge Fixed Effects38
Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions38
The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry: The Case of Airbnb and the Accommodation Industry38
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions38
Missing Events in Event Studies: Identifying the Effects of Partially Measured News Surprises37
Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Employment and Pay Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil37
Market Fragmentation37
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market36
Concentration Thresholds for Horizontal Mergers36
State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy: The Refinancing Channel36
The Selection of Talent: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia35
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality35
The Role of Behavioral Frictions in Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment and Risk: Evidence from a Field Experiment35
The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities35
Digital Dystopia35
Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines35
Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride35
Leadership in Social Movements: Evidence from the “Forty-Eighters” in the Civil War35
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