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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front Matter453
Monotonicity among Judges: Evidence from Judicial Panels and Consequences for Judge IV Designs320
Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry260
Quota versus Quality? Long-Term Gains from an Unusual Gender Quota214
Indirect Effects of Access to Finance202
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation200
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment195
Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto-Improving Policies193
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions171
Front Matter169
Evaluating the Impact of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio169
Front Matter160
Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections151
Institution Building without Commitment150
The Birth of a Nation:Media and Racial Hate144
Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital144
Market Power and Capital Constraints141
Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil136
Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa130
Heterogeneity in School Value Added and the Private Premium128
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility126
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility125
Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry124
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force118
Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets108
Conservation Priorities and Environmental Offsets: Markets for Florida Wetlands105
The Reversal Interest Rate104
A Long and a Short Leg Make for a Wobbly Equilibrium97
The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment97
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers96
Comparisons of Signals93
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium92
Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa92
All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity90
Local Productivity Spillovers88
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China79
Managers and Public Hospital Performance79
Experimental Cost of Information78
What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality77
The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending73
Buying from a Group73
Front Matter73
Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall, and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics72
The Effect of Field Training Officers on Police Use of Force70
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field67
Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits64
Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Legislature63
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children62
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit62
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design62
Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds60
Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda60
Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error59
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan58
Understanding High-Wage Firms: Monopoly, Monopsony, and Bargaining Power58
Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation57
Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from US States57
Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples57
When Do NudgesŽ Increase Welfare?53
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice53
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media53
Financial Frictions: Micro versus Macro Volatility52
Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intrahousehold Disease Spread52
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment52
Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors52
Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence52
The Dynamic Consequences of State Building: Evidence from the French Revolution51
Globalization and Pandemics51
The Immigrant Next Door50
Measuring Upward Mobility50
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy50
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment50
Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting49
Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies48
Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment48
Front Matter47
Report of Independent Auditor45
Front Matter44
Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design43
Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times43
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills43
Production and Financial Networks in Interplay43
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry43
Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs42
Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications42
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D41
The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle41
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers40
The Flight to Safety and International Risk Sharing40
Front Matter39
Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households39
Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility39
Task-Based Discrimination39
Front Matter38
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Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan38
The Value of Software38
A Discrimination Report Card37
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions37
The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 195337
Posterior Separable Cost of Information37
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice37
Front Matter37
Negative Control Falsification Tests for Instrumental Variable Designs36
Reference Dependence in the Housing Market36
Front Matter35
Politics at Work35
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Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium34
Front Matter33
Long-Run Trends in Long-Maturity Real Rates, 1311–202233
Monetary Cooperation during Global Inflation Surges33
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?33
Arbitraging Covered Interest rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending32
Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure32
Similarity of Information and Collective Action32
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment31
How Do Mental Health Treatment Delays Impact Long-Term Mortality?31
Prolonged Learning and Hasty Stopping: The Wald Problem with Ambiguity31
On Binscatter31
Selling Subscriptions30
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages30
Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice30
Misallocation under Trade Liberalization29
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy29
Designing Dynamic Reassignment Mechanisms: Evidence from GP Allocation29
The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions29
Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction29
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