Economic Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Economic Journal is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Air Pollution and Manufacturing Firm Productivity: Nationwide Estimates for China192
Robots and Firms188
Credit Misallocation During the European Financial Crisis107
Publishing While Female: are Women Held to Higher Standards? Evidence from Peer Review82
The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters69
Banking on the Confucian Clan: Why China Developed Financial Markets so Late60
Climate Risk, Cooperation and the Co-Evolution of Culture and Institutions59
Finance and Green Growth54
Coal and the European Industrial Revolution54
The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures46
Subsidising the spread of COVID-19: Evidence from the UK’S Eat-Out-to-Help-Out Scheme*45
Can External Threats Foster a European Union Identity? Evidence from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine45
Tariffs and Politics: Evidence from Trump’s Trade Wars43
Market-Based Monetary Policy Uncertainty42
A Time for Action on Climate Change and a Time for Change in Economics39
Kin Networks and Institutional Development37
Nation-Building and Education36
Optimal Covid-19 Quarantine and Testing Policies32
The Elasticity of Taxable Income: A Meta-Regression Analysis30
Screening and Signalling Non-Cognitive Skills: Experimental Evidence from Uganda29
Household Debt and Monetary Policy: Revealing the Cash-Flow Channel29
Enforcement of Labour Regulation and the Labour Market Effects of Trade: Evidence from Brazil29
Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes and Personality Traits27
Emotion and Reason in Political Language26
Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College25
A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behaviour23
Housing Expenditure and Income Inequality23
Fertility and Modernity22
Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants’ Economic Success21
Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The Negative Effects of Prosocial Incentives21
Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries20
Gender Differences in Negotiation: Evidence from Real Estate Transactions20
On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments and Mortality19
The Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden19
The Coronavirus Stimulus Package: How Large is the Transfer Multiplier19
Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India18
How to Regulate Carbon Emissions with Climate-Conscious Consumers18
Flattening of the Phillips Curve with State-Dependent Prices and Wages18
Gravity and Heterogeneous Trade Cost Elasticities18
Bureaucrat Allocation in the Public Sector: Evidence from the World Bank18
The Cultural Divide17
Lending Cycles and Real Outcomes: Costs of Political Misalignment17
Uncertainty, Wages and the Business Cycle16
The Economic Legacy of Expulsion: Lessons from Post-War Czechoslovakia16
Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia16
Environmental Adaptation of Risk Preferences16
Daughters and Divorce16
Psychological Effects of Poverty on Time Preferences15
Non-Linearities, State-Dependent Prices and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy15
Market Participation and Moral Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence from Greenland15
Casting Doubt: Image Concerns and the Communication of Social Impact15
Focality and Asymmetry in Multi-Battle Contests15
Relative Performance Feedback in Education: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial*15
Cognitive Performance in Remote Work: Evidence from Professional Chess14
Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition14
Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–201814
Is School-Based Financial Education Effective? Immediate and Long-Lasting Impacts on High School Students14
The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation13
Upstream Bundling and Leverage of Market Power13
Competing Sales Channels with Captive Consumers13
Personality Traits Across the Life Cycle: Disentangling Age, Period and Cohort Effects*12
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights and the Persistence in Britain'S Industrialisation12
On Target? Sanctions and the Economic Interests of Elite Policymakers in Iran12
The Standard Portfolio Choice Problem in Germany12
Social Connectivity, Media Bias, and Correlation Neglect*12
Interactions in Public Policies: Spousal Responses and Program Spillovers of Welfare Reforms12
Property Right Acquisition and Path Dependence: Nineteenth-Century Land Policy and Modern Economic Outcomes11
Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Can Productive Safety Nets Help Households Manage Climatic Variability?11
Corrupted by Algorithms? How AI-generated and Human-written Advice Shape (Dis)honesty11
Why Don’t Firms Hire Young Workers During Recessions?11
Urbanisation and the Onset of Modern Economic Growth11
Multi-Dimensional Skills and Gender Differences in STEM Majors11
The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns Across France11
Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialisation11
The Power of Hydroelectric Dams: Historical Evidence from the United States over the Twentieth Century11
Prices of Peers: Identifying Endogenous Price Effects in the Housing Market11
Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty10
What is the Price of Tea in China? Goods Prices and Availability in Chinese Cities10
Highways, Market Access and Spatial Sorting10
Price Floors and Externality Correction*10
How Effective are Female Role Models in Steering Girls Towards STEM? Evidence from French High Schools10
Disease and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in Africa10
Toward An Understanding of the Economics of Apologies: Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment10
The Effect of Adult Entertainment Establishments on Sex Crime: Evidence from New York City10
Social Class and (Un)Ethical Behaviour: Causal and Correlational Evidence10
Risk Attitudes and Conflict in the Household9
Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Composition: Understanding Match Effects in the Classroom9
Monopsony Power and Wages: Evidence from the Introduction of Serfdom in Denmark9
Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap9
How Pronounced is the U-Curve? Revisiting Income Inequality in the United States, 1917–609
Neonatal Death in India: Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition9
Exporting and Offshoring with Monopsonistic Competition9
Digging Into the Channels of Bunching: Evidence from the Uruguayan Income Tax8
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions using Direct Evidence on Sharing8
Economic Preferences and Personality Traits Among Finance Professionals and the General Population8
The Brides of Boko Haram: Economic Shocks, Marriage Practices, and Insurgency in Nigeria8
Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the United States During the Age of Mass Migration8
Time Preferences Across Language Groups: Evidence on Intertemporal Choices from the Swiss Language Border8
Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity8
A Composite Likelihood Approach for Dynamic Structural Models8
Slow Recoveries and Unemployment Traps: Monetary Policy in a Time of Hysteresis*8
Technology-Neutral Versus Technology-Specific Procurement8
Obesity, Poverty and Public Policy8
Inefficient Collective Households: Cooperation and Consumption8
Multi-Task Agents and Incentives: The Case of Teaching and Research for University Professors7
Sovereign Default, Domestic Banks and Exclusion from International Capital Markets7
The Null Result Penalty7
Political Competition and State Capacity: Evidence from a Land Allocation Program in Mexico7
The Impact of Corporate QE on Liquidity: Evidence from the UK7
The Merit Primacy Effect7
The Economic Consequences of Sir Robert Peel: A Quantitative Assessment of the Repeal of the Corn Laws7
Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market7
Financial Frictions and Firm Informality: A General Equilibrium Perspective7
Winter is Coming: Early-life Experiences and Politicians’ Decisions7
Cognitive Skills and Economic Preferences in the Fund Industry7
The Long-Run Effects of Peers on Mental Health7
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico7
Clean Energy Access: Gender Disparity, Health and Labour Supply7
Beyond Short-Term Learning Gains: the Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia After Three Years7
Policies in Hard Times: Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms6
Considering the Counterfactual: Real Wages in the First Industrial Revolution6
The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labour6
Ethnic Violence Across Space6
Demand Shocks and Firm Investment: Micro-Evidence from Fiscal Retrenchment in Italy6
Double Counting of Investment6
Political Activists as Free Riders: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment6
Auctions with Privately Known Capacities: Understanding Competition Among Renewables6
Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline6
Political Selection and Economic Policy6
Voter Mobilisation and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya6
Trading Favours through the Revolving Door: Evidence from China’s Primary Land Market*6
Catholic Censorship and the Demise of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Italy6
Safe Assets6
Does External Monitoring from the Government Improve the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises?6
The Heterogeneous Tax Pass-Through Under Different Vertical Relationships6
Pledge-and-Review Bargaining: from Kyoto to Paris6
Culture and Contracts: The Historical Legacy of Forced Labour6
Information Avoidance and Image Concerns5
Gender and Leadership in Organisations: the Threat of Backlash5
Steering Fallible Consumers5
Winners and Losers: the Distributional Effects of the French Feebate on the Automobile Market5
Expectations, Wage Hikes and Worker Voice5
Rice Farming and the Origins of Cooperative Behaviour5
Marginal College Wage Premiums Under Selection Into Employment5
Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations*5
Public Capital and Economic Development5
Revisiting the Hypothesis of High Discounts and High Unemployment5
Creativity and Corporate Culture*5
Patterns of Labour Market Adjustment to Trade Shocks with Imperfect Capital Mobility5
R&D Heterogeneity and the Impact of R&D Subsidies*5
Who Sells During a Crash? Evidence from Tax Return Data on Daily Sales of Stock5
Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking5
Run-off Elections in the Laboratory5
Erosion of State Power, Corruption Control and Fiscal Capacity5
Unexpected Supply Effects of Quantitative Easing and Tightening4
Production Networks And International Fiscal Spillovers4
Spatial Polarisation*4
Welfare Effects of Housing Transaction Taxes: A Quantitative Analysis with an Assignment Model4
The Emperor’s Geography—City Locations, Nature and Institutional Optimisation4
Stable Randomisation4
Spurious Regressions and Panel IV Estimation: Revisiting the Causes of Conflict4
Political Risk, Populism and the Economy4
Parental Responses to Information about School Quality: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data4
Understanding Ethnolinguistic Differences: The Roles of Geography and Trade4
Multi-Product Pricing: Theory and Evidence from Large Retailers4
Class Altruism and Redistribution4
Time of Day and High-Stake Cognitive Assessments4
Lives or Livelihoods? Perceived Trade-Offs and Policy Views4
Should a Poverty-Averse Donor Always Reward Better Governance? A Paradox of Aid Allocation4
Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from The U.S. Congress4
Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land3
Salience and Accountability: School Infrastructure and Last-Minute Electoral Punishment*3
Job Polarisation, Labour Market Fluidity and the Flattening of the Phillips Curve3
Discrimination Between Religious and Non-Religious Groups: Evidence from Marking High-Stakes Exams3
Do Celebrity Endorsements Matter? A Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia3
Differences Attract: An Experimental Study of Focusing in Economic Choice3
Police Response Time and Injury Outcomes3
Shifting Punishment onto Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating3
Countering Moral Hazard in Higher Education: The Role of Performance Incentives in Need-Based Grants*3
Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment3
Information Operations Increase Civilian Security Cooperation3
Do Students Learn More with an Additional Teacher in the Classroom? Evidence from a Field Experiment3
Spillover Effects of Intellectual Property Protection in the Interwar Aircraft Industry3
Real Effects of Financial Distress: The Role of Heterogeneity3
p-Hacking, Data type and Data-Sharing Policy3
The Cultural Roots of Firm Entry, Exit and Growth3
Strategic Campaign Communication: Evidence from 30,000 Candidate Manifestos3
Mineral Resources and the Salience of Ethnic Identities3
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers3
Labour Share and Productivity Dynamics3
The Central Bank Strikes Back! Credibility of Monetary Policy under Fiscal Influence3
Child Penalties in Politics3
Dust and Death: Evidence from the West African Harmattan3
Trade Shocks, Labour Markets and Migration in the First Globalisation3
Lawyer Expertise and Contract Design—Evidence from M&A Negotiations3
Shaking Legitimacy: The Impact of Earthquakes on Conflict in Historical China3
Childless Aristocrats: Inheritance and the Extensive Margin of Fertility3
Trade-Offs of Attending Better Schools: Achievement, Self-Perceptions and Educational Trajectories3
Caught in the Cycle: Economic Conditions at Enrolment and Labour Market Outcomes of College Graduates3
The Political Scar of Epidemics3
The Smoot-Hawley Trade War3
Talent Discovery and Poaching Under Asymmetric Information3
Family, Community and Long-Term Socio-Economic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers3
The Material basis of Cooperation: how Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behaviour3
Trends in Assortative Mating and Offspring Outcomes3
Optimal Taxation of Families: Mirrlees Meets Becker3
Threat of Sabotage as a Driver of Collective Action2
A Subsidy That is Inversely Related to the Product Price2
Expressway to Votes: Infrastructure Projects and Voter Persuasion2
Markups and Financial Shocks2
Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants2
Critical Periods in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development: Evidence from Weather Shocks in Indonesia2
Holding a Group Together: Non-Game Theory Versus Game Theory2
Economic Persistence Despite Adverse Policies: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan2
Gone with the wind: The consequences of US drone strikes in Pakistan2
The Promises and Pitfalls of Using (Mostly) Low-Touch Coaching Interventions to Improve College Student Outcomes2
Labour Mobility and Earnings in the Uk, 1992–20172
When Information Conflicts with Obligations: the Role of Motivated Cognition2
Jumping the Gun: How Dictators Got Ahead of Their Subjects2
The Usual Suspects: Offender Origin, Media Reporting and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigration2
Valuing Life as an Asset, as a Statistic and at Gunpoint2
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises2
Judicial Quality, Input Customisation, and Trade Margins: The Role of Product Quality2
Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap2
Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers and Teenage Motherhood2
A Nudge to Quit? The Effect of a Change in Pension Information on Annuitisation, Labour Supply and Retirement Choices Among Older Workers2
Judicial Capture2
Designing Effective Teacher Performance Pay Programs: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania*2
Formal Employment and Organised Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia2
A Raise for Grandma: Pensions and Household Expenditure*2
Ballot or Bullet: The Impact of the UK’s Representation of the People Act on Peace and Prosperity2
Estimating Cross-Industry Cross-Country Interaction Models Using Benchmark Industry Characteristics2
Protection Without Discrimination2
Technology Shocks and Predictable Minsky Cycles2
International Trade and Innovation Dynamics with Endogenous Markups2
Corruption and Firm Growth: Evidence from around the World2
Women Leaving the Playpen: the Emancipating Role of Female Suffrage2
Location, Location, Location: Manufacturing and House Price Growth2
Immigration, Female Labour Supply and Local Cultural Norms2
The Forward-Looking Effect of Increasing the Full Retirement Age2
The Efficiency Costs of Dividend Taxation with Managerial Firms*2
Teaching Norms: Direct Evidence of Parental Transmission2
Culture and Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete2
Dating the Lender of Last Resort2
Generic and Branded Pharmaceutical Pricing: Competition Under Switching Costs*2
Higher-Achievement Schools, Peers and Mental Health2
The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match2
The Effects of Fiscal Decentralisation on Publicly Provided Services and Labour Markets2
Taste-Based Gender Favouritism in High-Stake Decisions: Evidence from The Price is Right2
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