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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals	258
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations	227
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century	142
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450	132
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain	127
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards	107
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets	103
Recent Referees	101
Back Cover	101
Front Matter	100
Recent Referees	92
Recent Referees	91
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers	87
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence	85
Distribution Regression with Sample Selection and UK Wage Decomposition	85
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result	81
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China	81
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction	78
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk	75
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions	74
Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis	70
Front Matter	68
Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations	68
Recent Referees	67
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity	67

Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality	66
JPE Turnaround Times	65
Front Matter	60
Front Matter	58
Erratum: Self-Control at Work	58
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals	57
Demand for Online News under Government Control: Evidence from Russia	56
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence	56
Social Networks with Unobserved Links	53
Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies	51
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks	50
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions	49
JPE Turnaround Times	48
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel	47
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: A Response	46
Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications	46
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited	45
Reputation Effects under Short Memories	44
Front Matter	43
Progressive Random Choice	43
Robert Lucas's Models of Firm Size Distributions and Investment	43
Recent Referees	42
Back Cover	42
Recent Referees	38
Vacancy Chains	37
Front Matter	37
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice	36
Front Matter	35
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams	35
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution	35
Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size	34
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Quasi Nonergodicity, and Wealth Inequality	33
Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning	33
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer	33
Recent Referees	32
Front Matter	32
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks	31
Recent Referees	31
Front Matter	31
The Comparative Advantage of Firms	30
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees	29
JPE Turnaround Times	29
The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility	29
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	29
Financial Product Design in Decentralized Markets	28
The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications	28
Gender, Confidence, and the Mismeasure of Intelligence, Competitiveness and Literacy	28
Back Cover	27
Front Matter	27
US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting	27

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

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