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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Distribution Regression with Sample Selection and UK Wage Decomposition	269
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals	239
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards	145
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century	144
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence	132
Recent Referees	112
Front Matter	109
Recent Referees	104
Recent Referees	103
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers	93
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets	92
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain	90
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations	89
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450	89
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China	85
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result	82
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction	80
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity	76
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions	75
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk	75
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality	74
Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations	74
Recent Referees	70
Front Matter	70
Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis	67

Front Matter	66
JPE Turnaround Times	66
Erratum: Self-Control at Work	64
Demand for Online News under Government Control: Evidence from Russia	64
Front Matter	64
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals	59
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence	57
Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies	54
Social Networks with Unobserved Links	54
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks	52
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions	51
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams	49
JPE Turnaround Times	49
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice	47
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited	47
Vacancy Chains	46
Reputation Effects under Short Memories	45
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: A Response	45
Front Matter	44
Recent Referees	43
Back Cover	42
Recent Referees	41
Front Matter	40
Front Matter	39
Progressive Random Choice	38
Robert Lucas’s Models of Firm Size Distributions and Investment	37
Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications	36
Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning	35
Front Matter	35
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel	35
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer	35
Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size	34
Front Matter	33
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Quasi Nonergodicity, and Wealth Inequality	33
Recent Referees	33
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution	33
Front Matter	33
Recent Referees	32
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees	31
The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility	31
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks	31
The Comparative Advantage of Firms	30
Gender, Confidence, and the Mismeasure of Intelligence, Competitiveness and Literacy	29
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	29
How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons	29
JPE Turnaround Times	29
When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct	29
Back Cover	28
Financial Product Design in Decentralized Markets	28
US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting	27

Front Matter	27
Front Matter	27
Back Cover	27
Front Matter	27
The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications	26
Index to Volume 130	25
Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics, and the Nonneutrality of Money	25
JPE Turnaround Times	25
JPE Turnaround Times	25
JPE Turnaround Times	24
Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises with Long Stagnations	23
Recent Referees	23
Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance	23
Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models	23
Competition and Information Leakage	23
Optimal Information Design of Online Marketplaces with Return Rights	22
Recent Referees	22
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics	22
Front Matter	22
Parenting with Patience: Parental Incentives and Child Development	22
Recent Referees	22
Intermediation and Competition in Search Markets: An Empirical Case Study	21
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices	21
The Mortgage Rate Conundrum	21
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India	21
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	20
Persuasion with Multiple Actions	20
JPE Turnaround Times	20
Preference Discovery in University Admissions: The Case for Dynamic Multioffer Mechanisms	20
JPE Turnaround Times	20
Factor Models for Conditional Asset Pricing	19
Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles	19
Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency	19
Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends	19
Opening Up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of Reforms to US Defense Research	19
No Kin in the Game: Moral Hazard and War in the US Congress	19
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes	18
Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment	18
JPE Turnaround Times	18
JPE Turnaround Times	18
The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy	18
Borda’s Rule and Arrow’s Independence Condition	17
Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany	17
Front Matter	16
Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior	16
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	16
Recent Referees	16
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
Front Matter	16
Recent Referees	16
Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach	16
Addendum	15
Multidimensional Sorting under Random Search	15
JPE Turnaround Times	15
Inferring Trade-Offs in University Admissions: Evidence from Cambridge	15
2025 Lucas Prize Announcement	15
Repricing Avalanches	15
Estimating an Auction Platform Game with Two-Sided Entry	15
Front Matter	14
(Near-)Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities	14
Recent Referees	14
Bail-Ins and Bailouts: Incentives, Connectivity, and Systemic Stability	14
Recent Referees	13
Attraction versus Persuasion: Information Provision in Search Markets	13
JPE Turnaround Times	13
Liquidity Rules and Credit Booms	13
The Path to College Education: The Role of Math and Verbal Skills	13
A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation: Will the Market Fix the Market?	13
JPE Turnaround Times	13
Exorbitant Privilege Gained and Lost: Fiscal Implications	13
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country	13
JPE Turnaround Times	13
Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment	13
Recent Referees	12
Back Cover	12
JPE Turnaround Times	12
Front Matter	12
Consumer Search, Steering, and Choice Overload	12
Inattentive Economies	12

Front Matter	12
Front Matter	12
Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility: A Polygenic Score Analysis	11
Colluding against Workers	11
Non-Bayesian Persuasion	11
Effects of Multi-Generational Exposure to Early-Life Advantage: Lessons from a Primate Study	11
Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms	11
Efficiency and Foreclosure Effects of Vertical Rebates: Empirical Evidence	11
Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks	11
Disequilibrium Play in Tennis	11
Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act	11
JPE Turnaround Times	11
Back Cover	10
Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France	10
Index to Volume 132	10
Rationally Inattentive Behavior: Characterizing and Generalizing Shannon Entropy	10
Robert E. Lucas Jr.: Supreme among Macroeconomists as a Bird Who Saw Further than Others	10
Front Matter	10
Pareto-Improving Optimal Capital and Labor Taxes	10
Funding of Clinical Trials and Reported Drug Efficacy	10
Mixture Choice Data: Revealing Preferences and Cognition	9
Designing Incentives for Heterogeneous Researchers	9
The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence	9
Cultural Values and Productivity	9
O-Ring Production Networks	9
JPE Turnaround Times	9
Panics and Early Warnings	9
Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives	9
JPE Turnaround Times	9
Recent Referees	9
Front Matter	8
Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences	8
Persuasion via Weak Institutions	8
Front Matter	8
Recent Referees	8
Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-based Time and Goods Investments	8
Information Frictions, Reputation, and Sovereign Spreads	8
Back Cover	8
Recent Referees	8
Prices and Policies in Opioid Markets	8
Q-Monetary Transmission	8
Big G	7
Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work	7
Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision-Making	7
Learning about the Long Run	7
JPE Turnaround Times	7
Rationing the Commons	7
Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy	7
Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India	7
Recent Referees	7
Front Matter	7
Persuasion and Welfare	7
Front Matter	7
Exit versus Voice	7
Subversive Conversations	6
Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics	6
JPE Turnaround Times	6
College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation	6
Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India	6
Pareto-Improving Segmentation of Multiproduct Markets	6
Index to Volume 131	6
Signaling in Online Credit Markets	6
Front Matter	6
Sources of Wage Growth	6
When Is the Use of Gaussian-inverse Wishart-Haar Priors Appropriate?	6
Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions	6
Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity	5
Unobserved Inputs in Household Production	5
Improving the Organization of Knowledge in Production by Screening Problems	5
Recent Referees	5
Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms	5
Growth Off the Rails: Aggregate Productivity Growth in Distorted Economies	5
Mr. Keynes Meets the Classics: Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate	5
Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets: A Comment	5
The Effects of Combat Deployments on Veterans’ Outcomes	5
Front Matter	5
Changes in Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from the United States	5
Front Matter	5
The Multidimensional Impact of Teachers on Students	5
The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross	5
Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets: A Reply	5
Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence	5
Front Matter	5
Front Matter	5
Asymmetric Information and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets Mexican Data	5
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador	4
The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach	4
How Does Incarceration Affect Reoffending? Estimating the Dose-Response Function	4
Do Environmental Markets Improve on Open Access? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights	4
JPE Turnaround Times	4
Recent Referees	4
Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure	4
How Much Should We Trust the Dictator’s GDP Growth Estimates?	4
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador: A Comment	4
Recent Referees	4