OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Oxford Economic Papers-New Series 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
Firms’ innovation and university cooperation. New evidence from a survey of Italian firms	45
Performance-based research funding and gender diversity in research: evidence from UK universities	32
The degeneration of workers’ cooperatives under endogenous membership in mixed oligopoly	31
Economic impact of large earthquakes: lessons from residential property values	31
Do the rich save more? Evidence from Brazil	25
Pandemic shocks and macroprudential policy	24
Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban Sub-Saharan Africa?	22
Innovation, growth, and structural change in a decarbonizing economy: a tale of two sectors	19
Banks defy gravity in tax havens	17
Symbolic incentives and the recruitment of volunteers for citizen science projects	15
Environmental regulation, taxes, and activism	14
A pecking order of household finance	14
Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply	13
Trading permits and informal entrepreneurship: evidence from South Africa	13
Exporters under foreign heat	13
Credit, banking fragility, and economic performance	12
Private finance initiatives and outsourcing of facilities management in UK hospitals	12
The effect of task switching on productivity: evidence from major league baseball pitchers	12
Effects of the minimum wage on the nonprofit sector	12
Effectiveness of military spending in reducing the intensity of armed conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa	12
Household durable goods and child health in China	11
Institutional ‘gaming’ involving staff turnover during recent research evaluation exercises by UK Russell Group universities	11
Wages of UK immigrant men across generations: who catches up?	11
Mobilizing women voters: experimental evidence from Pakistan	10
Performance pay and work hours: US survey evidence	10

The effect of capacity constraints on the slope of the Phillips curve	10
Flexible contracts and ethnic economic inequalities across gender during the UK’s COVID-19 recession	10
The global gender gap in labour income	9
How difficult is it to interpret subjective well-being questions during crises? Evidence from the onset of conflict in Yemen	9
Revisiting the effect of democracy on population health	9
Wage inequality and union membership at the establishment level: An econometric study using Norwegian data	9
Worker flows and wage dynamics: estimating wage growth without composition effects	9
Automation and taxation	9
Education and skill mismatches in the German labour market: the role of vocational and occupational specificity from a career perspective	8
Structural change, labour reallocation, and productivity growth in post-reform China	8
Evaluating fiscal supports on the public–private partnerships: a hidden risk for contract survival	8
Optimal taxation under status consumption and preferences for equality	8
Exchange rates and binary political events	8
Inflation, unemployment, and institutional trust: the global evidence	8
Performance-related pay and sorting into stress	8
Passing the buck!—how credible are self-reported measures of confidence in public institutions?	8
Identity, immigration, and subjective well-being: why are natives so sharply divided on immigration issues?	7
Social progress around the world: trends and convergence	7
Strategic behaviours in a labour market with mobility-restricting contractual provisions: evidence from the National Hockey League	7
What drives overhead aversion in charity? Evidence from field-experimental variation in fundraising costs	7
It’s me again… Ask avoidance and the dynamics of charitable giving	7
The role of student effort on performance in PISA: revisiting the gender gap in achievement	7
Can prosocial incentives and self-chosen goals improve performance? An online real-effort experiment	7
Does productivity growth boost savings? Causal evidence from transition episodes	6
The impact of aggregate fluctuations across the UK income distribution	6
A rent-seeking perspective on imperial peace	6
Inflation-overshooting commitment: an analysis using a macroeconomic model	6
Breaking barriers: a field experiment to explore discrimination in housing for people with moving disabilities	6
The effect of nontariff barriers on unreported trade: exploring a customs duty reform	6
Why do the earnings of male and female graduates diverge? The roles of field of study, motherhood, and job dynamics	6
Inequality of opportunity and life satisfaction	6
Stress, effort, and incentives at work	6
Do US top executives benefit from market concentration?	5
Trade misreporting: exchange rate movements and tariff evasion by firms	5
Human capital and welfare	5
Bernanke and Kindleberger on financial crises, 1978–2003	5
Labor market reforms and unemployment fluctuations	5
Effects of bargaining legislation on worker and management reconciliation decisions—a bivariate duration analysis	5
Industrial reform policies: does marketization enhance productivity more than privatization?	5
Evidence of self-selection and spatial mismatch in interregional migration: the case of Italy	5
On the use of current and forward-looking data in monetary policy: a behavioural macroeconomic approach	5
Climate change, strict Pareto improvements in welfare and multilateral financial transfers	4
Protests, long-term preferences, and populism: Evidence from 1968 in Europe	4
Politicians, institutional incentives, and citizen welfare: evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India	4
The meritocratic illusion: inequality and the cognitive basis of redistribution	4
Policing and crime: dynamic panel evidence from California	4
The effect of earned endowments and tangible money on charitable giving	4
Distributional effect of import shocks on British local labour markets	4
Long-term relatedness and income distribution: understanding the deep roots of inequality	4
Correction to: Do children increase the likelihood of homeownership? Evidence from a sample with twins	4

Firm-level financial frictions and aggregate allocative efficiency	4
The role of social effects in shaping beliefs about the economy	3
Marital sorting, family output, and wealth inequality	3
Work experience, information revelation, and study effort	3
Impact of socioeconomic determinants on the speed of epidemic diseases: a comparative analysis	3
Monopolistic competition under frictional entries	3
Optimal public debt indexation in advanced economies	3
Wage effects of skill mismatches across domains: the importance of ICT skills	3
Increasing inequalities in longevity among Italian workers	3
Concentration of income and human development: the role of the middle class	3
Global public good agreements with fixed costs	3
Social capital and financial access: evidence from a meta-analysis	3
Habit formation and trade unions	3
Changing gender norms and household resource allocation	3
International co-movements of inflation, 1851–1913	3
A Malthusian model of hybridization in human evolution	3
Concentration and mergers: evidence from Italian labor markets	3
Government debt and innovation-led growth	3
Banking structural reforms and top income shares: regulate or deregulate?	3
Welfare-maximizing patent length in a dynamic general equilibrium model	3
Conflict as a cause of migration	3
Productivity-enhancing reallocation during the Great Recession: evidence from Lithuania	3