OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Political Economy 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.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	322
Recent Referees	216
Back Cover	210
Recent Referees	199
Recent Referees	193
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals	157
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century	124
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers	122
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450	113
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards	103
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets	92
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China	91
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations	90
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain	89
East-Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting	85
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result	84
Front Matter	83
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk	82
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions	77
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction	76
Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis	75
Recent Referees	73
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality	72
Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations	71
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity	69

Front Matter	66
Exposure to Grocery Prices and Inflation Expectations	66
Front Matter	64
JPE Turnaround Times	63
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks	60
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions	60
Social Networks with Unobserved Links	59
Demand for Online News under Government Control: Evidence from Russia	59
Erratum: Self-Control at Work	58
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals	56
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence	56
Front Matter	54
Back Cover	52
Recent Referees	52
Progressive Random Choice	52
Recent Referees	48
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: A Response	47
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel	46
JPE Turnaround Times	46
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice	46
Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications	43
Front Matter	42
Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning	40
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams	40
Reputation Effects under Short Memories	40
Steps of Reasoning in Children and Adolescents	39
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer	38
Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size	38
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution	37
Front Matter	36
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited	36
Recent Referees	35
Optimal Fiscal Policy without Commitment: Revisiting Lucas-Stokey	35
Recent Referees	34
Front Matter	34
Front Matter	33
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Quasi Nonergodicity, and Wealth Inequality	33
The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility	33
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes Toward Refugees	32
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks	31
The Comparative Advantage of Firms	31
Front Matter	30
Back Cover	29
Back Cover	29
Front Matter	29
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	28
Back Cover	28
Front Matter	27
JPE Turnaround Times	27
The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications	26

How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons	26
US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting	26
When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct	26
Financial Product Design in Decentralized Markets	26
Privacy as a Public Good: A Case for Electronic Cash	25
JPE Turnaround Times	25
Search, Information, and Prices	23
Index to Volume 130	23
Recent Referees	23
JPE Turnaround Times	23
JPE Turnaround Times	23
Recent Referees	23
Front Matter	23
Recent Referees	23
Competition and Information Leakage	22
Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics, and the Nonneutrality of Money	22
Optimal Information Design of Online Marketplaces with Return Rights	22
Intermediation and Competition in Search Markets: An Empirical Case Study	22
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics	22
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-Wide Experiments in Belgium	21
Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance	21
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices	21
The Mortgage Rate Conundrum	20
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India	20
Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models	20
Persuasion with Multiple Actions	19
JPE Turnaround Times	19
JPE Turnaround Times	19
Factor Models for Conditional Asset Pricing	18
No Kin in the Game: Moral Hazard and War in the US Congress	18
Preference Discovery in University Admissions: The Case for Dynamic Multioffer Mechanisms	18
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	18
Taxation under Learning by Doing	18
Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency	18
Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles	18
Front Matter	17
Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior	17
The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy	17
Recent Referees	17
Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany	17
Front Matter	17
Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment	17
Recent Referees	17
JPE Turnaround Times	17
JPE Turnaround Times	17
Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends	17
The Morality of Markets	16
The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children	16
Borda’s Rule and Arrow’s Independence Condition	15
Recent Referees	15
On Bunching and Identification of the Taxable Income Elasticity	15
Recent Referees	15
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes	15
Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach	15
Front Matter	15
JPE Turnaround Times	14
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	14
Back Cover	13
Attraction versus Persuasion: Information Provision in Search Markets	13
Addendum	13
Repricing Avalanches	13
Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment	13
Bail-Ins and Bailouts: Incentives, Connectivity, and Systemic Stability	13
The Interaction of Bankers’ Asset and Liability Management with Liquidity Concerns	13
(Near-)Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities	13
A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation: Will the Market Fix the Market?	13
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country	13
The Path to College Education: The Role of Math and Verbal Skills	12
Multidimensional Sorting under Random Search	12
2025 Lucas Prize Announcement	12
Estimating an Auction Platform Game with Two-Sided Entry	12
Inferring Trade-Offs in University Admissions: Evidence from Cambridge	12
Liquidity Rules and Credit Booms	11
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	11
Front Matter	11
Front Matter	11
The Impact of Temperature on Productivity and Labor Supply: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing	11
Front Matter	11
JPE Turnaround Times	10
Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks	10

Non-Bayesian Persuasion	10
JPE Turnaround Times	10
JPE Turnaround Times	10
Colluding Against Workers	10
Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms	10
Back Cover	10
JPE Turnaround Times	10
Disequilibrium Play in Tennis	10
Consumer Search, Steering, and Choice Overload	9
Efficiency and Foreclosure Effects of Vertical Rebates: Empirical Evidence	9
JPE Turnaround Times	9
Back Cover	9
Impure Impact Giving: Theory and Evidence	9
Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility: A Polygenic Score Analysis	9
Index to Volume 132	9
Inattentive Economies	9
Back Cover	9
Designing Incentives for Heterogeneous Researchers	9
Rationally Inattentive Behavior: Characterizing and Generalizing Shannon Entropy	8
Front Matter	8
O-Ring Production Networks	8
Pareto-Improving Optimal Capital and Labor Taxes	8
Dual Decision Processes: Retrieving Preferences When Some Choices Are Automatic	8
Funding of Clinical Trials and Reported Drug Efficacy	8
Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France	7
Recent Referees	7
JPE Turnaround Times	7
Mixture Choice Data: Revealing Preferences and Cognition	7
Persuasion via Weak Institutions	7
The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence	7
Back Cover	7
Q-Monetary Transmission	7
Front Matter	7
Cultural Values and Productivity	7
Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives	7
Panics and Early Warnings	7
Recent Referees	7
Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences	7
JPE Turnaround Times	7
Subversive Conversations	6
Big G	6
Front Matter	6
Are Bigger Banks Better? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany	6
Learning about the Long Run	6
JPE Turnaround Times	6
Recent Referees	6
Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision-Making	6
Front Matter	6
Exit versus Voice	6
Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work	6
Sources of Wage Growth	6
Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy	6
Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India	6
Information Frictions, Reputation, and Sovereign Spreads	6
Prices and Policies in Opioid Markets	6
Persuasion and Welfare	6
Rationing the Commons	6
Pareto-Improving Segmentation of Multiproduct Markets	5
Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics	5
Index to Volume 131	5
Front Matter	5
The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross	5
Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions	5
Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India	5
JPE Turnaround Times	5
Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity	5
Growth Off the Rails: Aggregate Productivity Growth in Distorted Economies	5
College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation	5
Front Matter	5
Front Matter	5
Signaling in Online Credit Markets	5
Feasible Joint Posterior Beliefs	5
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	5
Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms	5
Asymmetric Information and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets Mexican Data	5
Front Matter	4
Mr. Keynes Meets the Classics: Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate	4
Front Matter	4
Tax Evasion and Capital Taxation	4
The Effects of Combat Deployments on Veterans’ Outcomes	4
Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets: A Comment	4
Improving the Organization of Knowledge in Production by Screening Problems	4
Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets: A Reply	4
Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure	4
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador	4
The Multidimensional Impact of Teachers on Students	4
Back Cover	4
Back Cover	4
Unobserved Inputs in Household Production	4
The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach	4
Back Cover	3
The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training within Industry Program	3
JPE Turnaround Times	3
Informationally Simple Incentives	3
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	3