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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Revenue Persistence and Public Service Delivery152
The Material basis of Cooperation: how Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behaviour106
Does Third-Party Policing Increase Crime? Evidence from Nuisance Ordinances83
Hobo Economicus*72
The Dramatic Rise of the New Society Journals in Economics68
Using List Prices to Collude or to Compete?65
How do Workers Adjust to Robots? Evidence from China62
The Complementarity Between Trust and Contract Enforcement58
An inquiry into the relationship between intelligence and prosocial behavior: Evidence from Swedish population registers48
Ride-Sharing and the Geography of Consumption Industries47
Is School-Based Financial Education Effective? Immediate and Long-Lasting Impacts on High School Students44
Heterogeneous Dynasties and Long-Run Mobility*42
Formal Employment and Organised Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia41
Must Agreements Be Kept? Residential Leases During Covid-19*40
Erratum to Highways, Market Access and Spatial Sorting38
Populist Persuasion in Electoral Campaigns: Evidence from Bryan's Unique Whistle-Stop Tour36
Winter is Coming: Early-life Experiences and Politicians’ Decisions30
Economic Distress and Children’s Mental Health: Evidence from the Brazilian High-Risk Cohort Study for Mental Conditions30
Preheating Prosocial Behaviour30
Financial Frictions and Firm Informality: A General Equilibrium Perspective29
Do Celebrity Endorsements Matter? A Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia29
Correction to: Sentiments and Economic Activity: Evidence from US States26
Accommodating the Rise in Urbanisation: Are New Towns a Good Solution?26
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico26
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus at-will Contracts25
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises25
Social Class and (Un)Ethical Behaviour: Causal and Correlational Evidence25
Manipulation and Selection in Unemployment Insurance25
Are Cities Losing Innovation Advantages? Online versus Face-to-face Interactions23
Unemployment and Development22
p-Hacking, Data type and Data-Sharing Policy22
Steering Fallible Consumers21
Informal Incentives and Labour Markets21
Judicial Quality, Input Customisation, and Trade Margins: The Role of Product Quality21
Jumping the Gun: How Dictators Got Ahead of Their Subjects20
Economic Shocks and Populism20
Political Rhetoric and Racial Discrimination in Arrests for Drugs19
Technology-Neutral Versus Technology-Specific Procurement19
Who's Afraid of Policy Experiments?18
Safe Assets18
The Power of the Pill: Evidence from Oral Contraceptive Sales18
Catholic Censorship and the Demise of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Italy17
The Impact of State-Provided Education: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act17
We are All in the Same Boat: Cross-Border Spillovers of Climate Shocks through International Trade and Supply Chains17
Sharing News Left and Right: Frictions and Misinformation on Twitter17
Gone with the wind: The consequences of US drone strikes in Pakistan17
Public Good Superstars: A Lab-in-the-Field Study of Wikipedia16
Austerity Harmed Student Achievement16
Bank Liquidity, Interbank-Rate Setting and Heterogeneous Lending Responses16
Why High Incentives Cause Repugnance: a Framed Field Experiment15
Housing Prices and Credit Constraints in Competitive Search15
Unintended Consequences of Central Bank Lending in Financial Crises15
Partitioned Pricing and Collusion on Surcharges15
Relative Income and Mental Health in Couples15
Improving Administrative Data at Scale: Experimental Evidence on Digital Testing in Indian Schools14
Behind the Veil of Cultural Persistence: Marriage and Divorce in a Migrant Community14
Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China14
Putting Countries on the Map? Pastoral Visits of John Paul II and International Trade13
Trade and Domestic Policies under Monopolistic Competition13
Transport and urban growth in the First Industrial Revolution13
The Merit Primacy Effect13
Score Disclosure13
Reality Bites: Partisan Beliefs as Enforced Norms13
Human Capital and Financial Development: Firm-Level Interactions and Macroeconomic Implications13
Income-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions13
Experimental Evidence on Four Policies to Increase Learning at Scale13
Management Practices and Quality of Care: Evidence from the Private Health Care Sector in Tanzania13
How Market Prices React to Information: Evidence from Binary Options Markets12
Revisiting the Impact of Upstream Mergers with Downstream Complements and Substitutes12
Media, Spillovers and Social Norms: The Electoral Impact of Anti-Far-Right Protests in the 2002 French Election12
Beliefs about Maternal Labour Supply12
Decision Times Reveal Private Information in Strategic Settings: Evidence from Bargaining Experiments12
Short-Time Work and Precautionary Savings12
Politics at the dinner table: Thanksgiving and social influences on political polarization12
Dust and Death: Evidence from the West African Harmattan11
Climate Shocks, Cyclones and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap11
The Shale Revolution and the Dynamics of the Oil Market11
Information Aggregation in Stratified Societies11
The Rise of Pass-Throughs: an Empirical Investigation11
Reducing Bias Among Health Care Providers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Pakistan10
Strategic Campaign Communication: Evidence from 30,000 Candidate Manifestos10
Refugee Relocation: A Mechanism Design Approach10
The productivity of public and private preschools (and schools): Evidence from India10
The Importance of Being Local? Administrative Decentralisation and Human Development10
To Defer or to Differ: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Cash Transfers in Nigerian Couples’ Decision-Making10
Bundling Genetic and Financial Technologies for More Resilient and Productive Small-Scale Farmers in Africa10
Optimal Fiscal Consolidation Under Frictional Financial Markets10
Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Human Capital: Evidence from a Survey Experiment10
Electoral Incentives to Obtain EU Grants10
Mental Capabilities, Heterogeneous Trading Behaviour and Performance in an Experimental Asset Market9
Obesity, Poverty and Public Policy9
Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Composition: Understanding Match Effects in the Classroom9
Bad Democracy Traps9
Corruption and Firm Growth: Evidence from around the World9
Trade-Offs of Attending Better Schools: Achievement, Self-Perceptions and Educational Trajectories9
Correction to: Transport and urban growth in the First Industrial Revolution9
Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility9
Firm Responses to Tax Audits: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from a Threshold-Based Audit Program9
The Null Result Penalty9
Production Networks And International Fiscal Spillovers9
Economic Preferences and Personality Traits Among Finance Professionals and the General Population9
Vaccines and Verdicts: How Smallpox Court Decisions Affect Anti-Vaccine Discourse and Mortality9
Emotion and Reason in Political Language9
Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,153 Subnational Regions9
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions using Direct Evidence on Sharing9
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
Agricultural Technological Change, Female Earnings and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil8
Auctions with Privately Known Capacities: Understanding Competition Among Renewables8
Commuting for Crime8
Fuelling Organised Crime: the Mexican War on Drugs and Oil Theft8
Cognitive Skills Beyond Childhood8
The Effects of Tax Changes on Economic Activity: A Narrative Approach to Frequent Anticipations8
The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures8
Sotto Voce : The Impacts of Technology to Enhance Worker Voice8
Radicalisation8
Mobility Responses to Special Tax Regimes for the Super-Rich: Evidence from Switzerland8
Telementoring and Homeschooling During School Closures: a Randomised Experiment in Rural Bangladesh7
Housing Expenditure and Income Inequality7
Transitory Income Windfalls and Charitable Giving: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data, 1993–20217
Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis7
Personality Traits Across the Life Cycle: Disentangling Age, Period and Cohort Effects*7
Discipline Reform, School Culture, and Student Achievement7
The Mortality Effects of Winter Heating Prices7
Environmental Adaptation of Risk Preferences7
When Information Conflicts with Obligations: the Role of Motivated Cognition7
The Usual Suspects: Offender Origin, Media Reporting and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigration7
On Target? Sanctions and the Economic Interests of Elite Policymakers in Iran7
Measuring Social Benefits of Media Coverage: How Coverage of Climate Change Affects Behaviour7
Location, Location, Location: Manufacturing and House Price Growth7
The Criminogenic Consequence of Export Slowdown: Evidence from Millions of Court Judgement Documents in China7
Gender-Specific Application Behaviour, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap7
Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge7
Aggregate Implications of Heterogeneous Inflation Expectations: The Role of Individual Experience7
The Coronavirus Stimulus Package: How Large is the Transfer Multiplier7
Lobbying for Globalisation7
Overlapping Climate Policies7
Patterns of Labour Market Adjustment to Trade Shocks with Imperfect Capital Mobility7
Innovation and Distribution: an Equilibrium Model of Manufacturing and Retailing7
Destructive Behaviour, Judgement and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress6
Education Competition and Fertility Intention: Evidence from China’s Private Tutoring Ban6
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
When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralised School Choice System6
Peer Effects in Academic Research: Senders and Receivers6
The Political Scar of Epidemics6
The Demand for News: Accuracy Concerns Versus Belief Confirmation Motives6
The Births, Lives and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia6
Judicial Capture6
Dating the Lender of Last Resort6
Long-Run Effects of Aid: Forecasts and Evidence from Sierra Leone6
Sick of Working from Home?6
P-hacking and Significance Stars6
Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention6
Fertility Beliefs and Outcomes: the Role of Relationship Status and Attractiveness6
Measuring the Total Number of US Job Seekers6
Social Value of Public Information in Bargaining6
The Promises and Pitfalls of Using (Mostly) Low-Touch Coaching Interventions to Improve College Student Outcomes6
Scared Straight or Scared to Death? Fatalism in Response to Disease Risks6
House Prices and Misallocation: The Impact of the Collateral Channel on Productivity6
Does Homeownership Reduce Crime? A Radical Housing Reform from the UK6
Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of US Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968–20186
Unintended Consequences of Anti-Money-Laundering Regulations6
Cash Versus Kind: Benchmarking a Child Nutrition Program Against Unconditional Cash Transfers in Rwanda5
Threat of Sabotage as a Driver of Collective Action5
Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations*5
On the Post-Enlightenment Evolution of Moral Universalism5
A Behavioural Theory of Discrimination in Policing5
The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution5
Political Language in Economics5
Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the US5
Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking5
Discrimination Between Religious and Non-Religious Groups: Evidence from Marking High-Stakes Exams5
Salience and Accountability: School Infrastructure and Last-Minute Electoral Punishment*5
Monopsony Power and Wages: Evidence from the Introduction of Serfdom in Denmark5
Application Costs and Congestion in Matching Markets5
On the Importance of Social Status for Occupational Sorting5
Iterated Admissibility does not Refine Extensive-form Rationalizability5
Estimating the Cost of Capital and the Profit Share5
Temperature’s Toll on Decision-Making5
Earnings Responses to Even Higher Taxes5
The Heterogeneous Tax Pass-Through Under Different Vertical Relationships5
Immigration, Female Labour Supply and Local Cultural Norms5
The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match5
Market Participation and Moral Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence from Greenland5
Expectations and Adaptation to Environmental Threats5
Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment5
Procedural Barriers to Political Candidacy: Gender, Discouragement, and Candidate Persistence5
Robot Imports and Firm-Level Outcomes5
Optimal climate policy with demographic transitions5
From Connections to Merit: Anti-Corruption Reform and Occupational Mobility in China's Civil Service4
Correction to: Economic Preferences and Personality Traits among Finance Professionals and the General Population4
Declining Search Frictions, Unemployment and Self-Employment4
How Effective are Female Role Models in Steering Girls Towards STEM? Evidence from French High Schools4
The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field4
Cognitive Skills and Economic Preferences in the Fund Industry4
Culture and Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete4
Finance and Green Growth4
International Trade and Innovation Dynamics with Endogenous Markups4
Recruiting Intensity, Hires and Vacancies: Evidence from Firm-Level Data4
Child Penalties in Politics4
Give Me a Pass: Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia4
Critical Periods in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development: Evidence from Weather Shocks in Indonesia4
FAQ: How do I estimate the output gap?4
Fiscal influences on inflation in oecd countries, 2020–20234
Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Ageing4
Income Taxes and the Residential Mobility of Top Income Earners: Evidence from US and UK Households in Switzerland4
Preferences, Confusion and Competition4
Capital structure and hedging demand with incomplete markets4
Is the output growth rate in NIPA a welfare measure?4
The Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden4
Atlantic Trade and Conflict in Europe4
Church Membership and Economic Recovery: Evidence from the 2005 Hurricane Season4
Labour Mobility and Earnings in the Uk, 1992–20174
Shifting Punishment onto Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating4
Information Operations Increase Civilian Security Cooperation4
Data-Driven Envelopment with Privacy-Policy Tying3
The Dark Side of Infrastructure: Roads, Repression and Land in Authoritarian Paraguay3
Domino Secessions3
Macroevolutionary Origins of Comparative Development3
The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation3
The Impact of the WWI Agricultural Boom and Bust on Female Opportunity Cost and Fertility3
Research Registries and the Credibility Crisis: An Empirical and Theoretical Investigation3
Effects and Mechanisms of CEO Quality in Public Education3
Trading Favours through the Revolving Door: Evidence from China’s Primary Land Market*3
Employment Decline During the Great Recession: the Role of Firm Size Distribution3
Competition, Cooperation and Social Perceptions3
Foreign Currency Debt and Disagreement3
Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns3
What to Blame? Self-Serving Attribution Bias with Multi-Dimensional Uncertainty3
Political Competition and State Capacity: Evidence from a Land Allocation Program in Mexico3
How to Regulate Carbon Emissions with Climate-Conscious Consumers3
A Comment on ‘Buyers' Miscoordination, Entry and Downstream Competition’3
Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment3
Local exposure to refugees changed attitudes to ethnic minorities in the Netherlands3
Kinship Taxation as an Impediment to Growth: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Microenterprises3
The Role of Mindset in Education: A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Disadvantaged Schools3
Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies3
Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants3
Expectation Formation with Correlated Variables3
The Welfare Effects of Greenbelt Policy: Evidence from England3
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