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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Heterogeneous Dynasties and Long-Run Mobility*115
Welfare Effects of Housing Transaction Taxes: A Quantitative Analysis with an Assignment Model97
Hobo Economicus*84
Using List Prices to Collude or to Compete?79
Relative Performance Feedback in Education: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial*58
How do Workers Adjust to Robots? Evidence from China57
Revenue persistence and public service delivery57
Ride-Sharing and the Geography of Consumption Industries56
Formal Employment and Organised Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia54
An inquiry into the relationship between intelligence and prosocial behavior: Evidence from Swedish population registers52
The Material basis of Cooperation: how Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behaviour43
Is School-Based Financial Education Effective? Immediate and Long-Lasting Impacts on High School Students42
Must Agreements Be Kept? Residential Leases During Covid-19*40
Preheating Prosocial Behaviour39
Populist Persuasion in Electoral Campaigns: Evidence from Bryan's Unique Whistle-Stop Tour37
Erratum to Highways, Market Access and Spatial Sorting33
Major Reforms in Electricity Pricing: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment32
Financial Frictions and Firm Informality: A General Equilibrium Perspective30
Economic Distress and Children’s Mental Health: Evidence from the Brazilian High-Risk Cohort Study for Mental Conditions29
Accommodating the Rise in Urbanisation: Are New Towns a Good Solution?26
Flattening of the Phillips Curve with State-Dependent Prices and Wages24
Correction to: Sentiments and Economic Activity: Evidence from US States24
Winter is Coming: Early-life Experiences and Politicians’ Decisions24
Do Celebrity Endorsements Matter? A Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia24
p-Hacking, Data type and Data-Sharing Policy23
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico22
Judicial Quality, Input Customisation, and Trade Margins: The Role of Product Quality21
Urbanisation and the Onset of Modern Economic Growth21
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises21
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus at-will Contracts21
Unemployment and Development21
Steering Fallible Consumers19
Social Class and (Un)Ethical Behaviour: Causal and Correlational Evidence19
Informal Incentives and Labour Markets18
Economic Shocks and Populism18
Who's Afraid of Policy Experiments?18
Jumping the Gun: How Dictators Got Ahead of Their Subjects18
The Effect of Adult Entertainment Establishments on Sex Crime: Evidence from New York City17
Technology-Neutral Versus Technology-Specific Procurement16
Safe Assets16
Catholic Censorship and the Demise of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Italy16
Gone with the wind: The consequences of US drone strikes in Pakistan15
Austerity Harmed Student Achievement15
Public Good Superstars: A Lab-in-the-Field Study of Wikipedia15
Risk Attitudes and Conflict in the Household15
The Power of The Pill: Evidence from Oral Contraceptive Sales15
Unintended Consequences of Central Bank Lending in Financial Crises15
The Impact of State-Provided Education: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act14
Enforcement of Labour Regulation and the Labour Market Effects of Trade: Evidence from Brazil14
Relative Income and Mental Health in Couples14
Human Capital and Financial Development: Firm-Level Interactions and Macroeconomic Implications14
We are all in the same boat: Cross-border spillovers of climate shocks through international trade and supply chain14
Sharing News Left and Right: Frictions and Misinformation on Twitter14
Housing Prices and Credit Constraints in Competitive Search13
The Merit Primacy Effect13
Improving Administrative Data at Scale: Experimental Evidence on Digital Testing in Indian Schools13
Why High Incentives Cause Repugnance: a Framed Field Experiment13
Partitioned Pricing and Collusion on Surcharges12
Experimental Evidence on Four Policies to Increase Learning at Scale12
Management Practices and Quality of Care: Evidence from the Private Health Care Sector in Tanzania12
Putting Countries on the Map? Pastoral Visits of John Paul II and International Trade12
Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialisation12
Transport and urban growth in the First Industrial Revolution11
Trade and Domestic Policies under Monopolistic Competition11
Media, Spillovers and Social Norms: The Electoral Impact of Anti-Far-Right Protests in the 2002 French Election11
The Rise of Pass-Throughs: an Empirical Investigation11
The Shale Revolution and the Dynamics of the Oil Market11
Score Disclosure11
Dust and Death: Evidence from the West African Harmattan11
Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China11
Income-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions11
The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters11
Decision Times Reveal Private Information in Strategic Settings: Evidence from Bargaining Experiments11
Bundling Genetic and Financial Technologies for More Resilient and Productive Small-Scale Farmers in Africa10
Strategic Campaign Communication: Evidence from 30,000 Candidate Manifestos10
Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Human Capital: Evidence from a Survey Experiment10
Refugee Relocation: A Mechanism Design Approach10
Optimal Fiscal Consolidation Under Frictional Financial Markets10
The Efficiency Costs of Dividend Taxation with Managerial Firms*10
Production Networks And International Fiscal Spillovers9
Emotion and Reason in Political Language9
Economic Preferences and Personality Traits Among Finance Professionals and the General Population9
Mental Capabilities, Heterogeneous Trading Behaviour and Performance in an Experimental Asset Market9
Corruption and Firm Growth: Evidence from around the World9
To Defer or to Differ: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Cash Transfers in Nigerian Couples’ Decision-Making9
Who Sells During a Crash? Evidence from Tax Return Data on Daily Sales of Stock9
Trade-Offs of Attending Better Schools: Achievement, Self-Perceptions and Educational Trajectories9
The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns Across France9
Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility9
Agricultural Technological Change, Female Earnings and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil8
The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures8
Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,153 Subnational Regions8
Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Composition: Understanding Match Effects in the Classroom8
Borrowing Constraints and Demand for Remedial Education: Evidence from Tanzania8
Interactions in Public Policies: Spousal Responses and Program Spillovers of Welfare Reforms8
Obesity, Poverty and Public Policy8
Vaccines and Verdicts: How Smallpox Court Decisions Affect Anti-Vaccine Discourse and Mortality8
Radicalisation8
The Effects of Tax Changes on Economic Activity: A Narrative Approach to Frequent Anticipations8
Transitory Income Windfalls and Charitable Giving: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data, 1993–20218
The Null Result Penalty8
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions using Direct Evidence on Sharing8
Fuelling Organised Crime: the Mexican War on Drugs and Oil Theft7
Commuting for Crime7
On Target? Sanctions and the Economic Interests of Elite Policymakers in Iran7
Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis7
Housing Expenditure and Income Inequality7
The Usual Suspects: Offender Origin, Media Reporting and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigration7
Mobility Responses to Special Tax Regimes for the Super-Rich: Evidence from Switzerland7
Auctions with Privately Known Capacities: Understanding Competition Among Renewables7
Personality Traits Across the Life Cycle: Disentangling Age, Period and Cohort Effects*6
The Coronavirus Stimulus Package: How Large is the Transfer Multiplier6
Lobbying for Globalisation6
Environmental Adaptation of Risk Preferences6
Telementoring and Homeschooling During School Closures: a Randomised Experiment in Rural Bangladesh6
Location, Location, Location: Manufacturing and House Price Growth6
When Information Conflicts with Obligations: the Role of Motivated Cognition6
Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge6
Measuring Social Benefits of Media Coverage: How Coverage of Climate Change Affects Behaviour6
Taking Back Control? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Retirement on Locus of Control6
Destructive Behaviour, Judgement, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress5
Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the US5
Sick of Working from Home?5
House Prices and Misallocation: The Impact of the Collateral Channel on Productivity5
Scared Straight or Scared to Death? Fatalism in Response to Disease Risks5
The Criminogenic Consequence of Export Slowdown: Evidence from Millions of Court Judgment Documents in China5
Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of US Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968–20185
Long-Run Effects of Aid: Forecasts and Evidence from Sierra Leone5
Exporting and Offshoring with Monopsonistic Competition5
Temperature’s Toll on Decision-Making5
The Births, Lives and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia5
Understanding Ethnolinguistic Differences: The Roles of Geography and Trade5
The Mortality Effects of Winter Heating Prices5
Overlapping Climate Policies5
The Forward-Looking Effect of Increasing the Full Retirement Age5
The Promises and Pitfalls of Using (Mostly) Low-Touch Coaching Interventions to Improve College Student Outcomes5
Judicial Capture5
Measuring the Total Number of US Job Seekers5
Social Value of Public Information in Bargaining5
Peer Effects in Academic Research: Senders and Receivers5
Patterns of Labour Market Adjustment to Trade Shocks with Imperfect Capital Mobility5
Innovation and Distribution: an Equilibrium Model of Manufacturing and Retailing5
Dating the Lender of Last Resort5
Does Homeownership Reduce Crime? A Radical Housing Reform from the UK5
The Demand for News: Accuracy Concerns Versus Belief Confirmation Motives4
Iterated Admissibility does not Refine Extensive-form Rationalizability4
Monopsony Power and Wages: Evidence from the Introduction of Serfdom in Denmark4
Application Costs and Congestion in Matching Markets4
The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution4
Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking4
Robot Imports and Firm-Level Outcomes4
Political Language in Economics4
Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention4
Immigration, Female Labour Supply and Local Cultural Norms4
Discrimination Between Religious and Non-Religious Groups: Evidence from Marking High-Stakes Exams4
On the Importance of Social Status for Occupational Sorting4
Threat of Sabotage as a Driver of Collective Action4
Estimating the Cost of Capital and the Profit Share4
Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment4
Fertility Beliefs and Outcomes: the Role of Relationship Status and Attractiveness4
The Political Scar of Epidemics4
Earnings Responses to Even Higher Taxes4
The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match4
Cash Versus Kind: Benchmarking a Child Nutrition Program Against Unconditional Cash Transfers in Rwanda4
Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations*4
Considering the Counterfactual: Real Wages in the First Industrial Revolution4
Salience and Accountability: School Infrastructure and Last-Minute Electoral Punishment*4
Cyclical Government Spending: Theory and Empirics4
The Heterogeneous Tax Pass-Through Under Different Vertical Relationships4
A Behavioural Theory of Discrimination in Policing4
Culture and Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete3
Shifting Punishment onto Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating3
Erratum to: Psychological Effects of Poverty on Time Preferences3
International Trade and Innovation Dynamics with Endogenous Markups3
Information Operations Increase Civilian Security Cooperation3
Recruiting Intensity, Hires and Vacancies: Evidence from Firm-Level Data3
Demand Shocks and Firm Investment: Micro-Evidence from Fiscal Retrenchment in Italy3
Effects and Mechanisms of CEO Quality in Public Education3
Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment3
Declining Search Frictions, Unemployment and Self-Employment3
Kinship Taxation as an Impediment to Growth: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Microenterprises3
FAQ: How do I estimate the output gap?3
Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Ageing3
From Connections to Merit: Anti-Corruption Reform and Occupational Mobility in China's Civil Service3
Finance and Green Growth3
Market Participation and Moral Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence from Greenland3
The Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden3
How to Regulate Carbon Emissions with Climate-Conscious Consumers3
Child Penalties in Politics3
Is the output growth rate in NIPA a welfare measure?3
How Effective are Female Role Models in Steering Girls Towards STEM? Evidence from French High Schools3
A comment on buyers’ miscoordination, entry, and downstream competition3
Church Membership and Economic Recovery: Evidence from the 2005 Hurricane Season3
Critical Periods in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development: Evidence from Weather Shocks in Indonesia3
Cognitive Skills and Economic Preferences in the Fund Industry3
Labour Mobility and Earnings in the Uk, 1992–20173
The Elasticity of Taxable Income: A Meta-Regression Analysis3
Correction to: Economic Preferences and Personality Traits among Finance Professionals and the General Population3
Atlantic Trade and Conflict in Europe3
The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field3
The Dark Side of Infrastructure: Roads, Repression and Land in Authoritarian Paraguay3
Data-Driven Envelopment with Privacy-Policy Tying3
Local exposure to refugees changed attitudes to ethnic minorities in the Netherlands3
The Welfare Effects of Greenbelt Policy: Evidence from England3
Preferences, Confusion and Competition3
Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants2
Competition, Cooperation, and Social Perceptions2
The Limitations of Activity-Based Instruction to Improve the Productivity of Schooling2
Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia2
Malleability of Preferences for Honesty2
Time of Day and High-Stake Cognitive Assessments2
Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap2
Multi-Dimensional Skills and Gender Differences in STEM Majors2
Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India2
Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies2
The Virtuous Cycle of Agreement2
Toward An Understanding of the Economics of Apologies: Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment2
Discontinuities in the Age-Victimisation Profile and the Determinants of Victimisation2
Trading Favours through the Revolving Door: Evidence from China’s Primary Land Market*2
The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation2
Employment Decline During the Great Recession: the Role of Firm Size Distribution2
Creativity and Corporate Culture*2
Television and Academic Achievement: Evidence from the Digital Television Transition in the UK2
The Power of Hydroelectric Dams: Historical Evidence from the United States over the Twentieth Century2
The Cultural Roots of Firm Entry, Exit and Growth2
Shaking Legitimacy: The Impact of Earthquakes on Conflict in Historical China2
Demand, Supply And Markup Fluctuations2
A Subsidy That is Inversely Related to the Product Price2
Expectation Formation with Correlated Variables2
Expectations, Wage Hikes and Worker Voice2
Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns2
Political Competition and State Capacity: Evidence from a Land Allocation Program in Mexico2
Lives or Livelihoods? Perceived Trade-Offs and Policy Views2
Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences2
The Role of Mindset in Education : A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Disadvantaged Schools2
Returns to Labour Mobility2
Matching Frictions and Distorted Beliefs: Evidence from a Job Fair Experiment2
Macroevolutionary Origins of Comparative Development2
Identification and Parametric Estimation of Empirical Dynamic Marriage Matching Models2
What to Blame? Self-Serving Attribution Bias with Multi-Dimensional Uncertainty2
The Effect of Concealed-Carry and Handgun Restrictions on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from the Sullivan Act of 19112
Beyond Short-Term Learning Gains: the Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia After Three Years2
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights and the Persistence in Britain'S Industrialisation2
The Impact of the WWI Agricultural Boom and Bust on Female Opportunity Cost and Fertility2
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