OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Literature 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Using Synthetic Controls: Feasibility, Data Requirements, and Methodological Aspects	496
Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five	187
Model Averaging and Its Use in Economics	151
Household Finance	138
Measuring Time Preferences	128
Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics	107
The Political Economy of Populism	102
Behavioral and Experimental Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis: A Complex Systems Approach	86
Designing Information Provision Experiments	82
Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality: Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics	70
How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from US Historical Data	64
Upgrading Education with Technology: Insights from Experimental Research	62
Automated Linking of Historical Data	62
Rational Inattention: A Review	62
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Times: Europe and Beyond	59
Global Public Goods: A Survey	58
Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses	56
Directed Search and Competitive Search Equilibrium: A Guided Tour	55
The Economics of Language	52
Capital Controls: Theory and Evidence	51
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	51
The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies	49
The Coase Theorem at Sixty	49
A Survey on Income Inequality in China	38
What Drives House Price Cycles? International Experience and Policy Issues	38

Explaining the Decline in the US Employment-to-Population Ratio: A Review of the Evidence	38
The Economic Impact of the Black Death	34
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Its Lessons for COVID-19	34
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory	33
An Analysis of the Literature on International Unconventional Monetary Policy	33
Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics	27
Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times	25
Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality	24
Forecasting in the Presence of Instabilities: How We Know Whether Models Predict Well and How to Improve Them	24
Foreign Influence and Domestic Policy	23
Ten Years of Evidence: Was Fraud a Force in the Financial Crisis?	23
What is Certain about Uncertainty?	22
Looking Back at 50 Years of the Clean Air Act	21
Carbon Taxes	20
Stratification Economics: Core Constructs and Policy Implications	19
The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review	18
Hysteresis and Business Cycles	18
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling	14
The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions	13
The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana	10
What Limits College Success? A Review and Further Analysis of Holzer and Baum’s Making College Work	9
Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments	9
Satisficing: Integrating Two Traditions	9
How Experiments with Children Inform Economics	8
From Micro to Macro Development	8
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market	6
Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century	6
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches	6
Book Review: The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon	6
Mass Atrocities and Their Prevention	6
Encouraging Desistance from Crime	5
“Somewhere in the Middle You Can Survive”: Review of The Narrow Corridor by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson	5
The Road to Serfdom after 75 Years	5
The Parable of the Auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom’sDiscovering Prices	4
Radical Markets by Eric Posner and E. Glen Weyl: A Review Essay	4
Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists	4
What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer’s Disease?	3
Living and Dying in America: An Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism	3
On the Finding of an Equilibrium: Düpp e–Weintraub and the Problem of Scientific Credit	3
Measurement Systems	3
Where Economics Went Wrong: A Review Essay	3
Racial Isolation and Marginalization of Economic Research on Race and Crime	3
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries	3