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

Article	Citations
Performance-based research funding and gender diversity in research: evidence from UK universities	51
The degeneration of workers’ cooperatives under endogenous membership in mixed oligopoly	38
Economic impact of large earthquakes: lessons from residential property values	37
Firms’ innovation and university cooperation. New evidence from a survey of Italian firms	32
Do the rich save more? Evidence from Brazil	27
Innovation, growth, and structural change in a decarbonizing economy: a tale of two sectors	24
Symbolic incentives and the recruitment of volunteers for citizen science projects	21
A pecking order of household finance	19
Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban Sub-Saharan Africa?	17
Pandemic shocks and macroprudential policy	16
Banks defy gravity in tax havens	16
Trading permits and informal entrepreneurship: evidence from South Africa	15
Exporters under foreign heat	14
Private finance initiatives and outsourcing of facilities management in UK hospitals	13
Flexible contracts and ethnic economic inequalities across gender during the UK’s COVID-19 recession	13
The effect of task switching on productivity: evidence from major league baseball pitchers	13
Institutional ‘gaming’ involving staff turnover during recent research evaluation exercises by UK Russell Group universities	12
Household durable goods and child health in China	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	11
Performance pay and work hours: US survey evidence	11
The effect of capacity constraints on the slope of the Phillips curve	10
Son preference, parental resource allocation, and gender gaps in mathematics	10
Worker flows and wage dynamics: estimating wage growth without composition effects	10
Wages of UK immigrant men across generations: who catches up?	10

A model of China’s agricultural crisis and famine in 1959–1961	10
The global gender gap in labour income	10
Automation and taxation	10
How difficult is it to interpret subjective well-being questions during crises? Evidence from the onset of conflict in Yemen	9
Passing the buck!—how credible are self-reported measures of confidence in public institutions?	9
Revisiting the effect of democracy on population health	9
Exchange rates and binary political events	9
Semi-collusion and innovation: friends or foes?	9
Structural change, labour reallocation, and productivity growth in post-reform China	8
Strategic behaviours in a labour market with mobility-restricting contractual provisions: evidence from the National Hockey League	8
Identity, immigration, and subjective well-being: why are natives so sharply divided on immigration issues?	8
Performance-related pay and sorting into stress	8
The impact of income tax changes on tax revenue	8
Optimal taxation under status consumption and preferences for equality	7
Imperfect information, composition of demand shocks, and the flattening of the Phillips curve	7
Can prosocial incentives and self-chosen goals improve performance? An online real-effort experiment	7
What drives overhead aversion in charity? Evidence from field-experimental variation in fundraising costs	7
Evaluating fiscal supports on the public–private partnerships: a hidden risk for contract survival	7
Inflation, unemployment, and institutional trust: the global evidence	7
A rent-seeking perspective on imperial peace	7
Education and skill mismatches in the German labour market: the role of vocational and occupational specificity from a career perspective	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
Inequality of opportunity and life satisfaction	6
Breaking barriers: a field experiment to explore discrimination in housing for people with moving disabilities	6
Inflation-overshooting commitment: an analysis using a macroeconomic model	6
Does productivity growth boost savings? Causal evidence from transition episodes	6
The impact of aggregate fluctuations across the UK income distribution	6
The effect of nontariff barriers on unreported trade: exploring a customs duty reform	6
Bernanke and Kindleberger on financial crises, 1978–2003	5
The meritocratic illusion: inequality and the cognitive basis of redistribution	5
Policing and crime: dynamic panel evidence from California	5
Effects of bargaining legislation on worker and management reconciliation decisions—a bivariate duration analysis	5
Evidence of self-selection and spatial mismatch in interregional migration: the case of Italy	5
Climate change, strict Pareto improvements in welfare and multilateral financial transfers	5
Do US top executives benefit from market concentration?	5
Why do the earnings of male and female graduates diverge? The roles of field of study, motherhood, and job dynamics	5
Industrial reform policies: does marketization enhance productivity more than privatization?	5
Long-term relatedness and income distribution: understanding the deep roots of inequality	5
Labor market reforms and unemployment fluctuations	5
Trade misreporting: exchange rate movements and tariff evasion by firms	5
Politicians, institutional incentives, and citizen welfare: evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India	4
International co-movements of inflation, 1851–1913	4
The disability pay gap: distinguishing between within-firm inequality and worker allocation across firms	4
Conflict as a cause of migration	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
Protests, long-term preferences, and populism: Evidence from 1968 in Europe	4
Work experience, information revelation, and study effort	4
Concentration of income and human development: the role of the middle class	4

Distributional effect of import shocks on British local labour markets	4
The effect of earned endowments and tangible money on charitable giving	4
The role of social effects in shaping beliefs about the economy	4
Wage effects of skill mismatches across domains: the importance of ICT skills	4
Fiscal interventions as housing-related macroprudential tools: a comprehensive analysis	3
Concentration and mergers: evidence from Italian labor markets	3
Government debt and innovation-led growth	3
Monopolistic competition under frictional entries	3
Schooling and adult cognitive skills: evidence from education reforms	3
Social capital and financial access: evidence from a meta-analysis	3
Marital sorting, family output, and wealth inequality	3
Optimal public debt indexation in advanced economies	3
School accountability and student achievement: neighbouring schools matter	3
Global public good agreements with fixed costs	3
Increasing inequalities in longevity among Italian workers	3
Welfare-maximizing patent length in a dynamic general equilibrium model	3
A Malthusian model of hybridization in human evolution	3
Impact of socioeconomic determinants on the speed of epidemic diseases: a comparative analysis	3
Beyond the badge of honour: the effect of the academic excellence initiative on staff recruitment in Italy	3
Habit formation and trade unions	3
Changing gender norms and household resource allocation	3
Banking structural reforms and top income shares: regulate or deregulate?	3