Economic Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Economic Journal is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Revenue Persistence and Public Service Delivery166
The Material basis of Cooperation: how Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behaviour113
The Dramatic Rise of the New Society Journals in Economics70
Using List Prices to Collude or to Compete?69
Ride-Sharing and the Geography of Consumption Industries58
An inquiry into the relationship between intelligence and prosocial behavior: Evidence from Swedish population registers51
Does Third-Party Policing Increase Crime? Evidence from Nuisance Ordinances50
The Complementarity Between Trust and Contract Enforcement48
Is School-Based Financial Education Effective? Immediate and Long-Lasting Impacts on High School Students43
How do Workers Adjust to Robots? Evidence from China40
Hobo Economicus*36
Formal Employment and Organised Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia35
Must Agreements Be Kept? Residential Leases During Covid-19*31
Erratum to Highways, Market Access and Spatial Sorting30
Accommodating the Rise in Urbanisation: Are New Towns a Good Solution?29
Financial Frictions and Firm Informality: A General Equilibrium Perspective29
The Causal Effect of Income on Market Social Responsibility29
Preheating Prosocial Behaviour29
Do Celebrity Endorsements Matter? A Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia28
Economic Distress and Children’s Mental Health: Evidence from the Brazilian High-Risk Cohort Study for Mental Conditions27
Winter is Coming: Early-life Experiences and Politicians’ Decisions25
Populist Persuasion in Electoral Campaigns: Evidence from Bryan's Unique Whistle-Stop Tour25
Correction to: Sentiments and Economic Activity: Evidence from US States24
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus at-will Contracts24
Unemployment and Development24
Social Class and (Un)Ethical Behaviour: Causal and Correlational Evidence22
Steering Fallible Consumers22
Manipulation and Selection in Unemployment Insurance22
p-Hacking, Data type and Data-Sharing Policy20
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico19
Are Cities Losing Innovation Advantages? Online Versus Face-to-Face Interactions19
Informal Incentives and Labour Markets19
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises19
Jumping the Gun: How Dictators Got Ahead of Their Subjects18
Political Rhetoric and Racial Discrimination in Arrests for Drugs18
Economic Shocks and Populism18
Safe Assets18
Who's Afraid of Policy Experiments?18
We are All in the Same Boat: Cross-Border Spillovers of Climate Shocks through International Trade and Supply Chains17
The Impact of State-Provided Education: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act17
Technology-Neutral Versus Technology-Specific Procurement17
The Power of the Pill: Evidence from Oral Contraceptive Sales17
Bank Liquidity, Interbank-Rate Setting and Heterogeneous Lending Responses17
Gone with the wind: The consequences of US drone strikes in Pakistan17
Catholic Censorship and the Demise of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Italy17
Public Good Superstars: A Lab-in-the-Field Study of Wikipedia16
Unintended Consequences of Central Bank Lending in Financial Crises16
Relative Income and Mental Health in Couples15
Sharing News Left and Right: Frictions and Misinformation on Twitter15
Austerity Harmed Student Achievement14
Management Practices and Quality of Care: Evidence from the Private Health Care Sector in Tanzania14
Housing Prices and Credit Constraints in Competitive Search14
Putting Countries on the Map? Pastoral Visits of John Paul II and International Trade14
Reality Bites: Partisan Beliefs as Enforced Norms14
Improving Administrative Data at Scale: Experimental Evidence on Digital Testing in Indian Schools14
Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China14
Behind the Veil of Cultural Persistence: Marriage and Divorce in a Migrant Community13
Experimental Evidence on Four Policies to Increase Learning at Scale13
Trade and Domestic Policies under Monopolistic Competition13
Score Disclosure13
Grants vs. Loans: the Role of Financial Aid in College Major Choice13
Partitioned Pricing and Collusion on Surcharges13
Transport and urban growth in the First Industrial Revolution13
Human Capital and Financial Development: Firm-Level Interactions and Macroeconomic Implications13
The Merit Primacy Effect13
Why High Incentives Cause Repugnance: a Framed Field Experiment13
Income-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions13
Revisiting the Impact of Upstream Mergers with Downstream Complements and Substitutes12
Dust and Death: Evidence from the West African Harmattan12
Decision Times Reveal Private Information in Strategic Settings: Evidence from Bargaining Experiments12
How Market Prices React to Information: Evidence from Binary Options Markets12
Beliefs about Maternal Labour Supply12
Media, Spillovers and Social Norms: The Electoral Impact of Anti-Far-Right Protests in the 2002 French Election11
Climate Shocks, Cyclones and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap11
Optimal Fiscal Consolidation Under Frictional Financial Markets11
The Shale Revolution and the Dynamics of the Oil Market11
Information Aggregation in Stratified Societies11
Reducing Bias Among Health Care Providers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Pakistan11
Strategic Campaign Communication: Evidence from 30,000 Candidate Manifestos11
The Rise of Pass-Throughs: an Empirical Investigation11
Short-Time Work and Precautionary Savings11
The Importance of Being Local? Administrative Decentralisation and Human Development11
Politics at the Dinner Table: Thanksgiving and Social Influences on Political Polarisation11
Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Human Capital: Evidence from a Survey Experiment10
Refugee Relocation: A Mechanism Design Approach10
Mental Capabilities, Heterogeneous Trading Behaviour and Performance in an Experimental Asset Market10
Bundling Genetic and Financial Technologies for More Resilient and Productive Small-Scale Farmers in Africa10
To Defer or to Differ: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Cash Transfers in Nigerian Couples’ Decision-Making10
Correction to: Transport and urban growth in the First Industrial Revolution10
Economic Preferences and Personality Traits Among Finance Professionals and the General Population10
The productivity of public and private preschools (and schools): Evidence from India10
Electoral Incentives to Obtain EU Grants10
Vaccines and Verdicts: How Smallpox Court Decisions Affect Anti-Vaccine Discourse and Mortality10
Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,153 Subnational Regions9
Obesity, Poverty and Public Policy9
Production Networks And International Fiscal Spillovers9
Firm Responses to Tax Audits: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from a Threshold-Based Audit Program9
Trade-Offs of Attending Better Schools: Achievement, Self-Perceptions and Educational Trajectories9
Corruption and Firm Growth: Evidence from around the World9
Does Local Politics Drive Tropical Land-Use Change? Property-Level Evidence From the Amazon9
Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility9
Bad Democracy Traps9
Correction to: The Smoot-Hawley Trade War9
The Null Result Penalty9
The Effect of Access to Legal Abortion on Fertility, Marriage and Long-term Outcomes for Women9
Borrowing Constraints and Demand for Remedial Education: Evidence from Tanzania8
The Effects of Tax Changes on Economic Activity: A Narrative Approach to Frequent Anticipations8
Sotto Voce: The Impacts of Technology to Enhance Worker Voice8
Cognitive Skills Beyond Childhood8
Agricultural Trade and Deforestation: The Role of New Roads8
Mobility Responses to Special Tax Regimes for the Super-Rich: Evidence from Switzerland8
The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures8
Transitory Income Windfalls and Charitable Giving: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data, 1993–20218
Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Composition: Understanding Match Effects in the Classroom8
Auctions with Privately Known Capacities: Understanding Competition Among Renewables8
Aggregate Implications of Heterogeneous Inflation Expectations: The Role of Individual Experience8
Fuelling Organised Crime: the Mexican War on Drugs and Oil Theft8
Radicalisation7
When Information Conflicts with Obligations: the Role of Motivated Cognition7
Patterns of Labour Market Adjustment to Trade Shocks with Imperfect Capital Mobility7
The Mortality Effects of Winter Heating Prices7
The Criminogenic Consequence of Export Slowdown: Evidence from Millions of Court Judgement Documents in China7
The Coronavirus Stimulus Package: How Large is the Transfer Multiplier7
The Usual Suspects: Offender Origin, Media Reporting and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigration7
Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis7
Measuring Social Benefits of Media Coverage: How Coverage of Climate Change Affects Behaviour7
Environmental Adaptation of Risk Preferences7
Gender-Specific Application Behaviour, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap7
Lobbying for Globalisation7
Telementoring and Homeschooling During School Closures: a Randomised Experiment in Rural Bangladesh7
Commuting for Crime7
Agricultural Technological Change, Female Earnings and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil7
Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge7
Location, Location, Location: Manufacturing and House Price Growth7
Innovation and Distribution: an Equilibrium Model of Manufacturing and Retailing7
Overlapping Climate Policies7
On Target? Sanctions and the Economic Interests of Elite Policymakers in Iran7
Does Homeownership Reduce Crime? A Radical Housing Reform from the UK6
Taking Back Control? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Retirement on Locus of Control6
The Forward-Looking Effect of Increasing the Full Retirement Age6
Dating the Lender of Last Resort6
Fertility Beliefs and Outcomes: the Role of Relationship Status and Attractiveness6
Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention6
Measuring the Total Number of US Job Seekers6
Education Competition and Fertility Intention: Evidence from China’s Private Tutoring Ban6
Procedural Barriers to Political Candidacy: Gender, Discouragement, and Candidate Persistence6
Scared Straight or Scared to Death? Fatalism in Response to Disease Risks6
Sick of Working from Home?6
Peer Effects in Academic Research: Senders and Receivers6
House Prices and Misallocation: The Impact of the Collateral Channel on Productivity6
Culture and gender differences in honesty6
Social Value of Public Information in Bargaining6
Temperature’s Toll on Decision-Making6
The Heterogeneous Tax Pass-Through Under Different Vertical Relationships6
The Births, Lives and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia6
The Promises and Pitfalls of Using (Mostly) Low-Touch Coaching Interventions to Improve College Student Outcomes6
When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralised School Choice System6
Long-Run Effects of Aid: Forecasts and Evidence from Sierra Leone6
Discipline Reform, School Culture and Student Achievement6
Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of US Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968–20186
Judicial Capture6
Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the US6
A Behavioural Theory of Discrimination in Policing6
Destructive Behaviour, Judgement and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress6
Earnings Responses to Even Higher Taxes5
Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment5
The Political Scar of Epidemics5
Optimal climate policy with demographic transitions5
Wheels of Change: Transforming Girls’ Lives with Bicycles5
Immigration, Female Labour Supply and Local Cultural Norms5
Expectations and Adaptation to Environmental Threats5
Cash Versus Kind: Benchmarking a Child Nutrition Program Against Unconditional Cash Transfers in Rwanda5
Estimating the Cost of Capital and the Profit Share5
Discrimination Between Religious and Non-Religious Groups: Evidence from Marking High-Stakes Exams5
Robot Imports and Firm-Level Outcomes5
P -hacking and Significance Stars5
Unintended Consequences of Anti-Money-Laundering Regulations5
Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking5
Salience and Accountability: School Infrastructure and Last-Minute Electoral Punishment*5
Monopsony Power and Wages: Evidence from the Introduction of Serfdom in Denmark5
On the Importance of Social Status for Occupational Sorting5
Market Participation and Moral Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence from Greenland5
Iterated Admissibility does not Refine Extensive-form Rationalizability5
The Demand for News: Accuracy Concerns Versus Belief Confirmation Motives5
Political Language in Economics5
On the Post-Enlightenment Evolution of Moral Universalism5
The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution5
The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match5
Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations*5
Application Costs and Congestion in Matching Markets5
Declining Search Frictions, Unemployment and Self-Employment4
Correction to: Economic Preferences and Personality Traits among Finance Professionals and the General Population4
Fiscal influences on inflation in oecd countries, 2020–20234
International Trade and Innovation Dynamics with Endogenous Markups4
Finance and Green Growth4
Shifting Punishment onto Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating4
Church Membership and Economic Recovery: Evidence from the 2005 Hurricane Season4
Research Registries and the Credibility Crisis: An Empirical and Theoretical Investigation4
A Comment on ‘Buyers' Miscoordination, Entry and Downstream Competition’4
Critical Periods in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development: Evidence from Weather Shocks in Indonesia4
Recruiting Intensity, Hires and Vacancies: Evidence from Firm-Level Data4
Capital structure and hedging demand with incomplete markets4
Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Ageing4
From Connections to Merit: Anti-Corruption Reform and Occupational Mobility in China's Civil Service4
FAQ: How do I estimate the output gap?4
Atlantic Trade and Conflict in Europe4
Kinship Taxation as an Impediment to Growth: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Microenterprises4
Competition, Cooperation and Social Perceptions4
Is the output growth rate in NIPA a welfare measure?4
The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field4
The Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden4
Culture and Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete4
Preferences, Confusion and Competition4
Labour Mobility and Earnings in the Uk, 1992–20174
Income Taxes and the Residential Mobility of Top Income Earners: Evidence from US and UK Households in Switzerland4
Threat of Sabotage as a Driver of Collective Action4
Give Me a Pass: Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia4
Domino Secessions4
Employment Decline During the Great Recession: the Role of Firm Size Distribution4
Local exposure to refugees changed attitudes to ethnic minorities in the Netherlands4
How Effective are Female Role Models in Steering Girls Towards STEM? Evidence from French High Schools4
Expectations, Wage Hikes and Worker Voice3
Expectation Formation with Correlated Variables3
The Dark Side of Infrastructure: Roads, Repression and Land in Authoritarian Paraguay3
Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment3
The Impact of the WWI Agricultural Boom and Bust on Female Opportunity Cost and Fertility3
The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation3
Creativity and Corporate Culture*3
Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences3
Financial Intermediaries and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from a High-Frequency Identification3
The Limitations of Activity-Based Instruction to Improve the Productivity of Schooling3
Macroevolutionary Origins of Comparative Development3
How to Regulate Carbon Emissions with Climate-Conscious Consumers3
Child Penalties in Politics3
Effects and Mechanisms of CEO Quality in Public Education3
What to Blame? Self-Serving Attribution Bias with Multi-Dimensional Uncertainty3
Multi-Dimensional Skills and Gender Differences in STEM Majors3
Political Competition and State Capacity: Evidence from a Land Allocation Program in Mexico3
Foreign Currency Debt and Disagreement3
The Welfare Effects of Greenbelt Policy: Evidence from England3
Trading Favours through the Revolving Door: Evidence from China’s Primary Land Market*3
Data-Driven Envelopment with Privacy-Policy Tying3
Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns3
Artisanal mining in Africa. Green for Gold?3
The Role of Mindset in Education: A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Disadvantaged Schools3
Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies3
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