OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Literature is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Using Synthetic Controls: Feasibility, Data Requirements, and Methodological Aspects	629
Household Finance	183
The Political Economy of Populism	156
Designing Information Provision Experiments	154
Rational Inattention: A Review	104
Behavioral and Experimental Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis: A Complex Systems Approach	99
Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality: Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics	89
Automated Linking of Historical Data	89
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	81
How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from US Historical Data	80
Global Public Goods: A Survey	77
Upgrading Education with Technology: Insights from Experimental Research	76
Directed Search and Competitive Search Equilibrium: A Guided Tour	75
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Times: Europe and Beyond	74
Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses	66
Capital Controls: Theory and Evidence	64
The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies	63
A Survey on Income Inequality in China	54
The Coase Theorem at Sixty	53
What Drives House Price Cycles? International Experience and Policy Issues	51
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory	45
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Its Lessons for COVID-19	44
The Economic Impact of the Black Death	44
Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics	42
An Analysis of the Literature on International Unconventional Monetary Policy	41

What is Certain about Uncertainty?	38
Carbon Taxes	36
Forecasting in the Presence of Instabilities: How We Know Whether Models Predict Well and How to Improve Them	36
Hysteresis and Business Cycles	35
Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality	33
Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists	33
Ten Years of Evidence: Was Fraud a Force in the Financial Crisis?	31
Foreign Influence and Domestic Policy	31
Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times	29
The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review	28
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market	27
The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana	27
Looking Back at 50 Years of the Clean Air Act	26
Stratification Economics: Core Constructs and Policy Implications	24
The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions	20
Satisficing: Integrating Two Traditions	18
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling	16
How Experiments with Children Inform Economics	14
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches	14
Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century	12
Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments	11
From Micro to Macro Development	10
What Limits College Success? A Review and Further Analysis of Holzer and Baum’s Making College Work	10
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries	10
From Outcome-Based to Language-Based Preferences	10
Encouraging Desistance from Crime	9
What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer’s Disease?	8
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?	8
Mass Atrocities and Their Prevention	8
Book Review: The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon	7
Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash	7
Measurement Systems	6
Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss Aversion	6
“Somewhere in the Middle You Can Survive”: Review of The Narrow Corridor by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson	6
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?	6
A Constructivist Perspective on Empirical Discrimination Research	6
The Impact of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Infrastructure, Health, and Education	6
Black Economists on Race and Policy: Contributions to Education, Poverty and Mobility, and Public Finance	5
Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow?	5
Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?	5
The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction	5
Living and Dying in America: An Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism	5
The Parable of the Auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom’sDiscovering Prices	5
Who Runs the AEA?	5