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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Recent Referees	354
Front Matter	298
Recent Referees	188
Distribution Regression with Sample Selection and UK Wage Decomposition	167
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals	142
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain	135
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations	129
A Study of the Microdynamics of Early-Childhood Learning	127
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China	122
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers	119
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets	112
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century	111
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards	109
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence	99
Recent Referees	97
Front Matter	96
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality	82
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction	81
Index to Volume 133	79
US Public Debt and Safe Asset Market Power	77
Front Matter	74
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity	73
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions	72
Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations	68
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result	65

Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk	63
Front Matter	61
Erratum: Self-Control at Work	57
Front Matter	57
Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies	53
The Causal Effects of Youth Cigarette Addiction and Education	53
Social Networks with Unobserved Links	53
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence	51
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals	49
Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline	48
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks	47
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions	47
JPE Turnaround Times	44
Front Matter	43
Recent Referees	43
Recent Referees	42
Back Cover	42
JPE Turnaround Times	41
Robert Lucas’s Models of Firm Size Distributions and Investment	41
Front Matter	40
Sleep: Educational Impact and Habit Formation	38
Front Matter	38
Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications	37
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited	37
Vacancy Chains	36
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies	36
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution	36
Progressive Random Choice	35
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams	35
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel	35
Reputation Effects under Short Memories	35
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice	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
Recent Referees	32
Recent Referees	32
Front Matter	32
Front Matter	32
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees	31
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Quasi Nonergodicity, and Wealth Inequality	30
Booms, Busts, and Mismatch in Capital Markets: Evidence from the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry	30
The Comparative Advantage of Firms	29
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks	29
JPE Turnaround Times	28
Financial Product Design in Decentralized Markets	28
Front Matter	28
Recent Referees	28
The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility	28
Front Matter	27
Front Matter	27

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

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