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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Recent Referees	313
Front Matter	205
Recent Referees	179
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain	165
Distribution Regression with Sample Selection and UK Wage Decomposition	146
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence	144
Front Matter	138
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China	135
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers	126
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century	119
A Study of the Microdynamics of Early-Childhood Learning	117
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals	114
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards	111
Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds?	109
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations	90
Recent Referees	84
Front Matter	84
Index to Volume 133	83
Front Matter	83
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality	81
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions	80
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result	73
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction	71
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk	68
US Public Debt and Safe Asset Market Power	60

Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations	57
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity	57
Front Matter	56
Front Matter	55
Erratum: Self-Control at Work	54
Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline	53
Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies	51
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence	51
The Causal Effects of Youth Cigarette Addiction and Education	51
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions	50
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals	47
Social Networks with Unobserved Links	47
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks	46
The Demand for Mobility: Evidence From an Experiment With Uber Riders	45
From Heterogeneous Firms to Heterogeneous Trade Elasticities: The Aggregate Implications of Firm Export Decisions	44
JPE Turnaround Times	42
Recent Referees	42
Front Matter	40
Recent Referees	39
Back Cover	39
Robert Lucas’s Models of Firm Size Distributions and Investment	38
JPE Turnaround Times	37
Front Matter	37
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer	36
Progressive Random Choice	36
Front Matter	36
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice	35
Vacancy Chains	35
Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications	35
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited	35
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel	33
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies	32
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution	32
Sleep: Educational Impact and Habit Formation	32
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams	31
Reputation Effects under Short Memories	31
Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning	31
Political Parties as Drivers of U.S. Polarization: 1927-2018	31
Mis(sed) Diagnosis: Physician Decision Making and ADHD	31
Front Matter	30
Recent Referees	29
Recent Referees	28
Front Matter	28
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Quasi Nonergodicity, and Wealth Inequality	28
Booms, Busts, and Mismatch in Capital Markets: Evidence from the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry	28
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees	27
The Comparative Advantage of Firms	27
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks	27
The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility	26
Front Matter	25

Front Matter	25
JPE Turnaround Times	25
Recent Referees	25
Front Matter	24
Back Cover	23
Health Shocks, Health Insurance, Human Capital, and the Dynamics of Earnings and Health	23
US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting	23
Optimal Queue Design	23
Front Matter	23
Gender, Confidence, and the Mismeasure of Intelligence, Competitiveness, and Literacy	23
The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications	23
Financial Product Design in Decentralized Markets	22
Index to Volume 130	22
A Theory of Redistribution and Public Good Provision Under Non-Democracy	22
JPE Turnaround Times	22
Parenting with Patience: Parental Incentives and Child Development	21
Recent Referees	21
Front Matter	21
Recent Referees	21
JPE Turnaround Times	21
JPE Turnaround Times	20
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India	20
Competition and Information Leakage	20
Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises with Long Stagnations	20
JPE Turnaround Times	20
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices	20
Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance	20
Optimal Information Design of Online Marketplaces with Return Rights	20
From Doubt to Devotion: Trials and Learning-Based Pricing	20
The Gas Trap: Outcompeting Coal versus Renewables	20
Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers inside Organizations	20
JPE Turnaround Times	19
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in US History	19
Persuasion with Multiple Actions	19
Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency? Evidence from Power Plants	19
JPE Turnaround Times	19
Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics, and the Nonneutrality of Money	19
Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment	18
Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency	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
Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles	18
Factor Models for Conditional Asset Pricing	18
Safe Spaces: Shelters or Tribes?	18
The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy	18
Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends	18
JPE Turnaround Times	17
The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective	17
JPE Turnaround Times	17
Front Matter	17
Markups: A Search-Theoretic Perspective	17
Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany	17
Recent Referees	17
The Value of Ratings: Evidence from Their Introduction in Securities Markets	16
Making a Swap: Network Formation with Increasing Marginal Costs	16
Recent Referees	16
The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities	16
The Morality of Markets	15
Borda’s Rule and Arrow’s Independence Condition	15
The Zero-Beta Interest Rate	15
On the Nature of Entrepreneurship	15
The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children	15
The Impact of Unions on Nonunion Wage Setting: Threats and Bargaining	15
Silence to Solidarity: How Communication About a Minority Affects Discrimination	15
Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach	15
Recent Referees	14
Multidimensional Sorting under Random Search	14
JPE Turnaround Times	14
Recent Referees	14
2025 Lucas Prize Announcement	14
JPE Turnaround Times	14
Addendum	14
(Near-)Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities	13
Repricing Avalanches	13
Attraction versus Persuasion: Information Provision in Search Markets	13
Estimating an Auction Platform Game with Two-Sided Entry	12
A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation: Will the Market Fix the Market?	12
JPE Turnaround Times	12
Exorbitant Privilege Gained and Lost: Fiscal Implications	12
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country	12

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