OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Political Economy is 15. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Contiguous Search: Exploration and Ambition on Uncharted Terrain	294
Recent Referees	263
Front Matter	163
Recent Referees	153
Recent Referees	141
Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence	123
A Study of the Microdynamics of Early Childhood Learning	116
Distribution Regression with Sample Selection and UK Wage Decomposition	114
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450	107
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers	104
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations	100
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards	94
Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China	88
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the Twentieth Century	87
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets	86
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals	84
Recent Referees	83
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality	80
Front Matter	80
Interest Rate Cuts versus Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result	78
Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions	77
Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis	75
Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations	73
Fiscal Stimulus under Sovereign Risk	72
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction	71

JPE Turnaround Times	71
Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity	71
Front Matter	68
Front Matter	62
Erratum: Self-Control at Work	60
German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence	59
Demand for Online News under Government Control: Evidence from Russia	53
When It Rains It Pours: Cascading Uncertainty Shocks	53
Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies	53
Social Networks with Unobserved Links	52
A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals	50
Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions	49
JPE Turnaround Times	49
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: A Response	48
Front Matter	48
Recent Referees	46
Front Matter	45
Recent Referees	44
Back Cover	41
Front Matter	40
Market Structure, Investment, and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications	39
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited	37
Front Matter	37
Vacancy Chains	36
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams	36
JPE Turnaround Times	36
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel	35
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution	35
Progressive Random Choice	35
Reputation Effects under Short Memories	35
Robert Lucas’s Models of Firm Size Distributions and Investment	35
Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size	34
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice	33
Recent Referees	33
Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning	33
Front Matter	33
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer	33
Front Matter	31
Recent Referees	31
The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility	30
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees	30
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Quasi Nonergodicity, and Wealth Inequality	30
The Comparative Advantage of Firms	30
The Allocation of Food to Food Banks	29
JPE Turnaround Times	28
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	28
Gender, Confidence, and the Mismeasure of Intelligence, Competitiveness and Literacy	28
Front Matter	27
Back Cover	27
Front Matter	27

Front Matter	27
Front Matter	26
US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting	26
The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications	26
When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct	25
JPE Turnaround Times	25
How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons	25
Index to Volume 130	25
Financial Product Design in Decentralized Markets	25
JPE Turnaround Times	25
JPE Turnaround Times	24
Front Matter	24
Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics, and the Nonneutrality of Money	24
Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises with Long Stagnations	23
Recent Referees	23
Intermediation and Competition in Search Markets: An Empirical Case Study	23
Optimal Information Design of Online Marketplaces with Return Rights	23
Recent Referees	23
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History	23
Recent Referees	23
Parenting with Patience: Parental Incentives and Child Development	22
Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices	22
Competition and Information Leakage	21
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics	21
The Mortgage Rate Conundrum	21
Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance	21
Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models	21
JPE Turnaround Times, Previous Two Years	20
JPE Turnaround Times	20
Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India	20
JPE Turnaround Times	20
Opening Up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of Reforms to US Defense Research	19
Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles	19
The Supply-Side Effects of Monetary Policy	18
Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency	18
Factor Models for Conditional Asset Pricing	18
Persuasion with Multiple Actions	18
Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends	18
No Kin in the Game: Moral Hazard and War in the US Congress	18
Preference Discovery in University Admissions: The Case for Dynamic Multioffer Mechanisms	17
JPE Turnaround Times	17
JPE Turnaround Times	17
Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment	17
The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities	16
Recent Referees	16
Borda’s Rule and Arrow’s Independence Condition	16
Recent Referees	16
Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior	16
The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets	16
Front Matter	16
Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany	16
Estimating an Auction Platform Game with Two-Sided Entry	15
(Near-)Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities	15
The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children	15
JPE Turnaround Times	15
Repricing Avalanches	15
Addendum	15
The Morality of Markets	15
2025 Lucas Prize Announcement	15
Inferring Trade-Offs in University Admissions: Evidence from Cambridge	15
Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach	15
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes	15