Journal of Political Economy

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Political Economy is 43. 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
Distribution Regression with Sample Selection and UK Wage Decomposition282
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China247
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain151
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450150
Recent Referees136
Front Matter117
Recent Referees115
Recent Referees110
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence108
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers102
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets97
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations95
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century90
A Study of the Microdynamics of Early Childhood Learning85
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals82
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards82
Recent Referees80
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality77
Front Matter77
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions74
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result74
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity72
Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations71
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk68
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction68
Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis68
Front Matter66
JPE Turnaround Times66
Front Matter63
Demand for Online News under Government Control: Evidence from Russia61
Erratum: Self-Control at Work56
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence55
Social Networks with Unobserved Links52
Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies52
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks51
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals49
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions49
JPE Turnaround Times48
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice47
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: A Response47
Front Matter46
Recent Referees46
Recent Referees43
Front Matter43
Back Cover43
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