OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Political Economy 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers	344
Recent Referees	292
Front Matter	185
Recent Referees	180
A Study of the Microdynamics of Early-Childhood Learning	163
Distribution Regression with Sample Selection and UK Wage Decomposition	140
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals	129
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century	127
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain	123
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence	121
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations	115
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets	110
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards	107
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China	104
Recent Referees	95
Front Matter	95
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result	92
Index to Volume 133	90
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality	81
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions	79
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction	78
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity	76
Front Matter	70
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk	69
US Public Debt and Safe Asset Market Power	66

Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations	65
JPE Turnaround Times	64
Front Matter	61
Front Matter	57
Erratum: Self-Control at Work	55
The Causal Effects of Youth Cigarette Addiction and Education	53
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals	53
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks	53
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions	53
Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline	52
Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies	49
Social Networks with Unobserved Links	47
JPE Turnaround Times	46
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence	46
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: A Response	44
Recent Referees	42
Recent Referees	42
Front Matter	42
Back Cover	41
Front Matter	40
Front Matter	40
JPE Turnaround Times	39
Robert Lucas’s Models of Firm Size Distributions and Investment	38
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies	37
Sleep: Educational Impact and Habit Formation	36
Progressive Random Choice	35
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel	35
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited	35
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice	35
Vacancy Chains	35
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams	34
Reputation Effects under Short Memories	34
Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning	33
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer	33
Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications	33
Front Matter	32
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution	32
Recent Referees	32
Recent Referees	31
Front Matter	31
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Quasi Nonergodicity, and Wealth Inequality	30
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees	30
The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility	30
Booms, Busts, and Mismatch in Capital Markets: Evidence from the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry	29
The Comparative Advantage of Firms	29
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks	28
Front Matter	28
JPE Turnaround Times	28
Front Matter	27
Front Matter	27

Front Matter	27
Health Shocks, Health Insurance, Human Capital, and the Dynamics of Earnings and Health	26
Gender, Confidence, and the Mismeasure of Intelligence, Competitiveness, and Literacy	26
Back Cover	26
Financial Product Design in Decentralized Markets	25
US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting	24
Recent Referees	24
Optimal Queue Design	24
When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct	23
JPE Turnaround Times	22
The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications	22
JPE Turnaround Times	22
Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency? Evidence from Power Plants	22
Index to Volume 130	22
The Gas Trap: Outcompeting Coal vs. Renewables	21
Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance	21
Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations	21
Parenting with Patience: Parental Incentives and Child Development	21
Front Matter	20
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in US History	20
Recent Referees	20
Competition and Information Leakage	20
Recent Referees	19
Optimal Information Design of Online Marketplaces with Return Rights	19
JPE Turnaround Times	19
Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises with Long Stagnations	19
Recent Referees	19
Persuasion with Multiple Actions	18
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics	18
Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency	18
Opening Up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of Reforms to US Defense Research	18
No Kin in the Game: Moral Hazard and War in the US Congress	18
JPE Turnaround Times	18
JPE Turnaround Times	18
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India	18
Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics, and the Nonneutrality of Money	18
Factor Models for Conditional Asset Pricing	18
Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment	18
JPE Turnaround Times	18
JPE Turnaround Times	18
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices	18
Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends	18
Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles	18
Preference Discovery in University Admissions: The Case for Dynamic Multioffer Mechanisms	18
The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy	18
Recent Referees	17
Front Matter	17
Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany	17
Recent Referees	17
Making a Swap: Network Formation with Increasing Marginal Costs	16
Borda’s Rule and Arrow’s Independence Condition	16
Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach	16
The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children	16
The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities	16
On the Nature of Entrepreneurship	16
The Value of Ratings: Evidence from Their Introduction in Securities Markets	16
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes	16
The Morality of Markets	16
JPE Turnaround Times	16
The Zero-Beta Interest Rate	16
Addendum	15
Recent Referees	15
Inferring Trade-Offs in University Admissions: Evidence from Cambridge	15
Multidimensional Sorting under Random Search	15
2025 Lucas Prize Announcement	15
A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation: Will the Market Fix the Market?	14
Estimating an Auction Platform Game with Two-Sided Entry	14
(Near-)Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities	14
JPE Turnaround Times	14
Attraction versus Persuasion: Information Provision in Search Markets	14
Bail-Ins and Bailouts: Incentives, Connectivity, and Systemic Stability	14
Repricing Avalanches	14
Exorbitant Privilege Gained and Lost: Fiscal Implications	14
Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment	14
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country	14
Recent Referees	14
JPE Turnaround Times	13
Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act	13
JPE Turnaround Times	13
JPE Turnaround Times	13

Recent Referees	13
Front Matter	12
Recent Referees	12
Disequilibrium Play in Tennis	12
Front Matter	12
Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms	12
Inattentive Economies	12
Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility: A Polygenic Score Analysis	12
Colluding against Workers	11
Consumer Search, Steering, and Choice Overload	11
Non-Bayesian Persuasion	11
Effects of Multigenerational Exposure to Early-Life Advantage: Lessons from a Primate Study	11
Index to Volume 132	10
Back Cover	10
JPE Turnaround Times	10
Funding of Clinical Trials and Reported Drug Efficacy	10
Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives	10
Pareto-Improving Optimal Capital and Labor Taxes	10
Robert E. Lucas Jr.: Supreme among Macroeconomists as a Bird Who Saw Further than Others	10
Front Matter	10
Designing Incentives for Heterogeneous Researchers	10
Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France	10
O-Ring Production Networks	9
JPE Turnaround Times	9
Recent Referees	9
Recent Referees	9
Recent Referees	9
The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence	9
JPE Turnaround Times	9
Front Matter	9
Back Cover	9
Persuasion via Weak Institutions	9
Rationally Inattentive Behavior: Characterizing and Generalizing Shannon Entropy	9
Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments	9
Recent Referees	9
Front Matter	9
Front Matter	8
Panics and Early Warnings	8
Learning about the Long Run	8
Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision-Making	8
Q-Monetary Transmission	8
Information Frictions, Reputation, and Sovereign Spreads	8
Prices and Policies in Opioid Markets	8
Front Matter	8
Mixture Choice Data: Revealing Preferences and Cognition	8
Cultural Values and Productivity	8
Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences	8
Blackwell-Monotone Updating Rules	8
Front Matter	8
Indirect Persuasion	8
Recent Referees	7
Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy	7
Persuasion and Welfare	7
Exit versus Voice	7
JPE Turnaround Times	7
Big G	7
Front Matter	7
Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India	7
Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work	7
Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India	7
Pareto-Improving Segmentation of Multiproduct Markets	6
Sources of Wage Growth	6
Subversive Conversations	6
Changes in Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from the United States	6
Front Matter	6
When Is the Use of Gaussian-Inverse Wishart-Haar Priors Appropriate?	6
Signaling in Online Credit Markets	6
Recent Referees	6
Front Matter	6
Index to Volume 131	6
Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics	6
Recent Referees	6
JPE Turnaround Times	6
Asymmetric Information and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets Mexican Data	6
Front Matter	6
Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity	5
Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms	5
Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets: A Comment	5
Back Cover	5
Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions	5
Efficiency and Redistribution in Environmental Policy: An Equilibrium Analysis of Agricultural Supply Chains	5
Growth Off the Rails: Aggregate Productivity Growth in Distorted Economies	5
Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets: A Reply	5
Mr. Keynes Meets the Classics: Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate	5
The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross	5
JPE Turnaround Times	5
College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation	5
Unobserved Inputs in Household Production	5
Back Cover	5
The Multidimensional Impact of Teachers on Students	5
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador: A Comment	4
The Effects of Combat Deployments on Veterans’ Outcomes	4
Recent Referees	4
The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach	4
JPE Turnaround Times	4