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

Article	Citations
Performance-based research funding and gender diversity in research: evidence from UK universities	49
Economic impact of large earthquakes: lessons from residential property values	35
Firms’ innovation and university cooperation. New evidence from a survey of Italian firms	34
The degeneration of workers’ cooperatives under endogenous membership in mixed oligopoly	31
Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban Sub-Saharan Africa?	29
Banks defy gravity in tax havens	24
Do the rich save more? Evidence from Brazil	23
Symbolic incentives and the recruitment of volunteers for citizen science projects	19
Pandemic shocks and macroprudential policy	18
A pecking order of household finance	16
Environmental regulation, taxes, and activism	15
Innovation, growth, and structural change in a decarbonizing economy: a tale of two sectors	15
Exporters under foreign heat	13
Trading permits and informal entrepreneurship: evidence from South Africa	13
Effectiveness of military spending in reducing the intensity of armed conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa	13
Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply	13
The effect of task switching on productivity: evidence from major league baseball pitchers	12
Effects of the minimum wage on the nonprofit sector	12
Household durable goods and child health in China	12
Performance pay and work hours: US survey evidence	12
The effect of capacity constraints on the slope of the Phillips curve	11
Institutional ‘gaming’ involving staff turnover during recent research evaluation exercises by UK Russell Group universities	11
Worker flows and wage dynamics: estimating wage growth without composition effects	10
Private finance initiatives and outsourcing of facilities management in UK hospitals	10
Wages of UK immigrant men across generations: who catches up?	10

Revisiting the effect of democracy on population health	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
Passing the buck!—how credible are self-reported measures of confidence in public institutions?	9
Inflation, unemployment, and institutional trust: the global evidence	9
How difficult is it to interpret subjective well-being questions during crises? Evidence from the onset of conflict in Yemen	9
Automation and taxation	9
Structural change, labour reallocation, and productivity growth in post-reform China	9
Exchange rates and binary political events	9
Evaluating fiscal supports on the public–private partnerships: a hidden risk for contract survival	9
Education and skill mismatches in the German labour market: the role of vocational and occupational specificity from a career perspective	8
Identity, immigration, and subjective well-being: why are natives so sharply divided on immigration issues?	8
Optimal taxation under status consumption and preferences for equality	8
Performance-related pay and sorting into stress	8
It’s me again… Ask avoidance and the dynamics of charitable giving	8
Strategic behaviours in a labour market with mobility-restricting contractual provisions: evidence from the National Hockey League	8
What drives overhead aversion in charity? Evidence from field-experimental variation in fundraising costs	8
The impact of income tax changes on tax revenue	8
Breaking barriers: a field experiment to explore discrimination in housing for people with moving disabilities	7
The role of student effort on performance in PISA: revisiting the gender gap in achievement	7
A rent-seeking perspective on imperial peace	7
Can prosocial incentives and self-chosen goals improve performance? An online real-effort experiment	7
The effect of nontariff barriers on unreported trade: exploring a customs duty reform	7
Inequality of opportunity and life satisfaction	6
Evidence of self-selection and spatial mismatch in interregional migration: the case of Italy	6
Effects of bargaining legislation on worker and management reconciliation decisions—a bivariate duration analysis	6
Inflation-overshooting commitment: an analysis using a macroeconomic model	6
Industrial reform policies: does marketization enhance productivity more than privatization?	6
Why do the earnings of male and female graduates diverge? The roles of field of study, motherhood, and job dynamics	6
The impact of aggregate fluctuations across the UK income distribution	6
Does productivity growth boost savings? Causal evidence from transition episodes	6
Do US top executives benefit from market concentration?	6
Bernanke and Kindleberger on financial crises, 1978–2003	5
Climate change, strict Pareto improvements in welfare and multilateral financial transfers	5
The meritocratic illusion: inequality and the cognitive basis of redistribution	5
Trade misreporting: exchange rate movements and tariff evasion by firms	5
Long-term relatedness and income distribution: understanding the deep roots of inequality	5
On the use of current and forward-looking data in monetary policy: a behavioural macroeconomic approach	5
Policing and crime: dynamic panel evidence from California	5
Labor market reforms and unemployment fluctuations	5
Correction to: Do children increase the likelihood of homeownership? Evidence from a sample with twins	4
Politicians, institutional incentives, and citizen welfare: evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India	4
The effect of earned endowments and tangible money on charitable giving	4
Wage effects of skill mismatches across domains: the importance of ICT skills	4
Distributional effect of import shocks on British local labour markets	4
International co-movements of inflation, 1851–1913	4
Protests, long-term preferences, and populism: Evidence from 1968 in Europe	4
The role of social effects in shaping beliefs about the economy	4
Firm-level financial frictions and aggregate allocative efficiency	4
Concentration of income and human development: the role of the middle class	4

Work experience, information revelation, and study effort	4
Beyond the badge of honour: the effect of the academic excellence initiative on staff recruitment in Italy	3
Global public good agreements with fixed costs	3
Conflict as a cause of migration	3
Optimal public debt indexation in advanced economies	3
Social capital and financial access: evidence from a meta-analysis	3
Government debt and innovation-led growth	3
Changing gender norms and household resource allocation	3
School accountability and student achievement: neighbouring schools matter	3
Welfare-maximizing patent length in a dynamic general equilibrium model	3
Concentration and mergers: evidence from Italian labor markets	3
Monopolistic competition under frictional entries	3
Identifying literacy and numeracy skill mismatch in OECD countries using the job analysis method	3
A Malthusian model of hybridization in human evolution	3
The college wage premium in the UK: decline and fall?	3
Public sector wage compression and wage inequality: gender and geographic heterogeneity	3
Impact of socioeconomic determinants on the speed of epidemic diseases: a comparative analysis	3
Productivity-enhancing reallocation during the Great Recession: evidence from Lithuania	3
Habit formation and trade unions	3
Banking structural reforms and top income shares: regulate or deregulate?	3
Increasing inequalities in longevity among Italian workers	3
Marital sorting, family output, and wealth inequality	3