Journal of Economic Literature

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Literature is 0. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success284
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality260
Book Reviews254
Book Reviews194
Book Reviews152
Book Reviews122
Data Engineering for Cognitive Economics116
Bessy, Christian. Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labor89
Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash88
JEL Classification System88
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021, Volume LIX, Number 386
Book Reviews78
How Unique is VC’s American History?73
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries71
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries66
Book Reviews65
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List62
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Nineteenth Annual List60
Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory59
A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws57
From Micro to Macro Development56
Book Reviews55
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022, Volume LX, Number 351
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History47
JEL Classification System45
Book Review: The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon44
Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality42
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?42
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 242
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory41
JEL Classification System41
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age39
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism37
Information Cascades and Social Learning36
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling36
What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer’s Disease?34
The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction34
Bauer, Jean-Martin. The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century29
Household Finance24
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024, Volume LXII, Number 423
When Nations Can't Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt23
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023, Volume LXI, Number 322
Annotated Listing of New Books21
Annotated Listing of New Books21
Book Reviews20
The Economics of Social Media20
Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century19
What Universities Owe Democracy18
Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting18
The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican American School Desegregation18
Forecasting in the Presence of Instabilities: How We Know Whether Models Predict Well and How to Improve Them16
Neal, Larry. The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance15
Religion and Growth14
Structural Reforms and Economic Performance: The Experience of Advanced Economies14
What Drives House Price Cycles? International Experience and Policy Issues13
Book Review: England's Cross of Gold: Keynes, Churchill, and the Governance of Economic Beliefs12
Annotated Listing of New Books12
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 112
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups11
Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.—Mexico Divide11
Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson9
The Human Tide: A Review Essay9
The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review9
Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe9
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay8
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia8
Book Reviews8
Annotated Listing of New Books7
Measurement Systems6
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Eighteenth Annual List6
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare6
Ten Years of Evidence: Was Fraud a Force in the Financial Crisis?6
Local Projections6
Larry Ball’s The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay6
Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal6
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology5
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2024, Volume LXII, Number 15
Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future5
Caldwell, Bruce and Hansjoerg Klausinger. Hayek: A Life 1899–1950; Yadav, Vikash. Liberalism's Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism3
The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–19603
Temporary Employment in Markets with Frictions3
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2023, Volume LXI, Number 23
Book Reviews3
Book Reviews3
Banzhaf, H. Spencer. Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics3
The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies3
Carbon Taxes3
The Minimum Wage as a Tool for Racial Economic Justice2
How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin and Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong: A Review Essay2
We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care2
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires2
Of Markets and Marriages: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of US Poverty2
Deep Learning for Economists2
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2023, Volume LXI, Number 12
JEL Classification System2
A Journey into Harold Hotelling’s Economics1
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Its Lessons for COVID-191
Book Reviews1
The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People1
A Review of Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti’s Love, Money and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids1
Hysteresis and Business Cycles1
The Impact of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Infrastructure, Health, and Education1
A Review of the Economics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity1
Armstrong, Mary A. and Susan L. Averett. Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work1
Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times1
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twenty-First Annual List1
The Long-Run Effects of the 1930s Redlining Maps on Children1
Annotated Listing of New Books1
Kaczynski, Steve and Scott Duke Kominers. The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create1
Annotated Listing of New Books1
Encouraging Desistance from Crime0
Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy0
Annotated Listing of New Books0
A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century0
Kahrl, Andrew W. The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 10
The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions0
Book Reviews0
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023, Volume LXI, Number 40
New Advances on an Old Question: Does Money Matter for Children’s Outcomes?0
Symposium: Race and Economic Literature—Introduction0
Book Reviews0
The Political Economics of Non-democracy0
Muralidharan, Karthik. Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance0
JEL Classification System0
The Political Economy of Populism0
Consumer Credit Reporting Data0
Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution0
Book Reviews0
The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights0
The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)0
Annotated Listing of New Books0
JEL Classification System0
Bounded Rationality in Choice Theory: A Survey0
Living and Dying in America: An Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism0
Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?0
Book Reviews0
Stratification Economics: Core Constructs and Policy Implications0
The Economics of Religion0
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality0
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity0
Perspectives on Race/Ethnicity and Economic Justice0
Satisficing: Integrating Two Traditions0
JEL Classification System0
Looking Back at 50 Years of the Clean Air Act0
Legal Markets0
Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses0
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–20210
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?0
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches0
JEL Classification System0
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today0
The Historical Perspective on the Donald Trump Puzzle: A Review of Barry Eichengreen’s The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era0
Mass Atrocities and Their Prevention0
Who Runs the AEA?0
The Economic Impact of the Black Death0
JEL Classification System0
JEL Classification System0
France after 1789: Essay on Elster’s France before 17890
Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists0
Book Reviews0
The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana0
Nonparametric Approaches to Empirical Welfare Analysis0
Annotated Listing of New Books0
A Review of Robert Sugden’sCommunity of Advantage0
Book Reviews0
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2024, Volume LXII, Number 20
Can Marshall plus Malthus Explain the Evolution of Ancient Societies? A Review ofEconomic Prehistoryby Dow and Reed0
A Fed for Our Times: A Review Essay on 21st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke0
Racial Isolation and Marginalization of Economic Research on Race and Crime0
New Russian Economic History0
Review of Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences0
Black Economists on Race and Policy: Contributions to Education, Poverty and Mobility, and Public Finance0
JEL Classification System0
A Survey on Income Inequality in China0
Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System: Shadows of Doubt and Beyond0
Game Theory and the First World War0
Spectrum Auctions: Designing Markets to Benefit the Public, Industry and the Economy0
Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation0
JEL Classification System0
Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments0
Book Reviews0
The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything0
What is Certain about Uncertainty?0
Automated Linking of Historical Data0
JEL Classification System0
Palen, Marc-William. Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World0
Mediation, Military, and Money: The Promises and Pitfalls of Outside Interventions to End Armed Conflicts0
Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow?0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 10
Book Reviews0
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2021, Volume LIX, Number 40
The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World0
Dividing Lines: Racial Segregation across Local Government Boundaries0
Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity0
Optimal Income Taxation0
Book Reviews0
Rational Inattention: A Review0
Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies0
Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss Aversion0
Annotated Listing of New Books0
Combinatorial Auctions in Practice0
Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics0
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years0
Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis0
Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life0
Cochrane, John H. The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level0
Book Reviews0
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars0
Social Protection in the Developing World0
An Analysis of the Literature on International Unconventional Monetary Policy0
Book Reviews0
JEL Classification System0
Designing Information Provision Experiments0
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2024, Volume LXII, Number 30
The Unequal Effects of Globalization0
Annotated Listing of New Books0
A Constructivist Perspective on Empirical Discrimination Research0
Prioritarianism in Practice0
Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs0
The Resilient Society0
JEL Classification System0
How Experiments with Children Inform Economics0
Annotated Listing of New Books0
Annotated Listing of New Books0
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism0
Does Prediction Machines Predict Our AI Future? A Review0
Kreps, David M. Arguing about Tastes: Modeling How Context and Experience Change Economic Preferences0
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England0
The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers0
Review of Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women’s Vote0
Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change0
What Drives Intergenerational Mobility? The Role of Family, Neighborhood, Education, and Social Class: A Review of Bukodi and Goldthorpe’sSocial Mobility and Education in Britain0
Annotated Listing of New Books0
Book Reviews0
Book Review: Regional Integration in West Africa: Is There a Role for a Single Currency?0
Ghilarducci, Teresa. Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy0
The Enduring Effects of Racial Discrimination on Income and Health0
Book Reviews0
Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past0
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era0
Book Reviews0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 10
Book Reviews0
Religion and Discrimination: A Review Essay of Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom0
Book Review: Entrenchment by Paul Starr0
From Outcome-Based to Language-Based Preferences0
Beyond the Natural Rate: Stephen Marglin on the Instability of Market Economies0
Book Reviews0
Book Review: Voting over a Distributed Ledger: An Interdisciplinary Perspective0
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