OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Oxford Economic Papers-New Series is 2. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic impact of large earthquakes: lessons from residential property values	21
Performance-based research funding and gender diversity in research: evidence from UK universities	20
A note on the unemployment volatility puzzle	19
Firms’ innovation and university cooperation. New evidence from a survey of Italian firms	17
The degeneration of workers’ cooperatives under endogenous membership in mixed oligopoly	16
Do the rich save more? Evidence from Brazil	15
A pecking order of household finance	14
Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban Sub-Saharan Africa?	13
Symbolic incentives and the recruitment of volunteers for citizen science projects	13
Banks defy gravity in tax havens	11
Pandemic shocks and macroprudential policy	11
Trading permits and informal entrepreneurship: evidence from South Africa	10
Wealth concentration in the USA using an expanded measure of net worth	10
Exporters under foreign heat	9
Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply	9
Effectiveness of military spending in reducing the intensity of armed conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa	8
Environmental regulation, taxes, and activism	8
Wages of UK immigrant men across generations: who catches up?	8
The effect of capacity constraints on the slope of the Phillips curve	8
The effect of task switching on productivity: evidence from major league baseball pitchers	7
Performance pay and work hours: US survey evidence	7
Flexible contracts and ethnic economic inequalities across gender during the UK’s COVID-19 recession	7
Credit, banking fragility, and economic performance	7
Effects of the minimum wage on the nonprofit sector	7
Household durable goods and child health in China	7

Institutional ‘gaming’ involving staff turnover during recent research evaluation exercises by UK Russell Group universities	7
Automation and taxation	6
Worker flows and wage dynamics: estimating wage growth without composition effects	6
Mobilizing women voters: experimental evidence from Pakistan	6
The global gender gap in labour income	6
The persistence of unhappiness: trapped into despair?	6
Wage inequality and union membership at the establishment level: An econometric study using Norwegian data	6
Revisiting the effect of democracy on population health	6
Structural change, labour reallocation, and productivity growth in post-reform China	5
How difficult is it to interpret subjective well-being questions during crises? Evidence from the onset of conflict in Yemen	5
Evaluating fiscal supports on the public–private partnerships: a hidden risk for contract survival	5
Social progress around the world: trends and convergence	5
Passing the buck!—how credible are self-reported measures of confidence in public institutions?	5
Strategic behaviours in a labour market with mobility-restricting contractual provisions: evidence from the National Hockey League	5
Optimal taxation under status consumption and preferences for equality	5
Identity, immigration, and subjective well-being: why are natives so sharply divided on immigration issues?	5
The role of student effort on performance in PISA: revisiting the gender gap in achievement	5
Exchange rates and binary political events	5
Job search, unemployment protection, and informal work	5
What drives overhead aversion in charity? Evidence from field-experimental variation in fundraising costs	5
It’s me again… Ask avoidance and the dynamics of charitable giving	5
Performance-related pay and sorting into stress	5
Can prosocial incentives and self-chosen goals improve performance? An online real-effort experiment	4
Inflation-overshooting commitment: an analysis using a macroeconomic model	4
Effects of bargaining legislation on worker and management reconciliation decisions—a bivariate duration analysis	4
Stress, effort, and incentives at work	4
Do US top executives benefit from market concentration?	4
Industrial reform policies: does marketization enhance productivity more than privatization?	4
Inequality of opportunity and life satisfaction	4
Evidence of self-selection and spatial mismatch in interregional migration: the case of Italy	4
The effect of earned endowments and tangible money on charitable giving	3
Long-term relatedness and income distribution: understanding the deep roots of inequality	3
Bernanke and Kindleberger on financial crises, 1978–2003	3
Labor market reforms and unemployment fluctuations	3
Climate change, strict Pareto improvements in welfare and multilateral financial transfers	3
Protests, long-term preferences, and populism: Evidence from 1968 in Europe	3
Firm-level financial frictions and aggregate allocative efficiency	3
Correction to: Do children increase the likelihood of homeownership? Evidence from a sample with twins	3
On the use of current and forward-looking data in monetary policy: a behavioural macroeconomic approach	3
How Uzawa differs from Lucas	3
The meritocratic illusion: inequality and the cognitive basis of redistribution	3
Reply to Edwards and Ogilvie: ‘Did the Black Death Cause Economic Development by “Inventing” Fertility Restriction’	3
Concentration of income and human development: the role of the middle class	3
International co-movements of inflation, 1851–1913	3
Why do the earnings of male and female graduates diverge? The roles of field of study, motherhood, and job dynamics	3
Policing and crime: dynamic panel evidence from California	3
Human capital and welfare	3
The role of social effects in shaping beliefs about the economy	3
Politicians, institutional incentives, and citizen welfare: evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India	3
Impact of socioeconomic determinants on the speed of epidemic diseases: a comparative analysis	2

Eradicating female genital cutting: implications from political efforts in Burkina Faso	2
A year of COVID: the evolution of labour market and financial inequalities through the crisis	2
Social capital and financial access: evidence from a meta-analysis	2
Banking structural reforms and top income shares: regulate or deregulate?	2
Increasing inequalities in longevity among Italian workers	2
Simultaneous borrowing and saving in microfinance	2
Productivity-enhancing reallocation during the Great Recession: evidence from Lithuania	2
Optimal public debt indexation in advanced economies	2
Immigrant overeducation across two generations: the role of gender and part-time work	2
Monopolistic competition under frictional entries	2
Collusion sustainability with a capacity-constrained firm	2
Identifying literacy and numeracy skill mismatch in OECD countries using the job analysis method	2
Habit formation and trade unions	2
Welfare-maximizing patent length in a dynamic general equilibrium model	2
Work experience, information revelation, and study effort	2
Conflict as a cause of migration	2
Population sorting and human capital accumulation	2
Concentration and mergers: evidence from Italian labor markets	2
Public sector wage compression and wage inequality: gender and geographic heterogeneity	2
The college wage premium in the UK: decline and fall?	2
Firm dynamics by age and size classes and the choice of size measure	2
Changing gender norms and household resource allocation	2
For some, luck matters more: the impact of the great recession on the early careers of graduates from different socio-economic backgrounds*	2
Marital sorting, family output, and wealth inequality	2
Distributional effect of import shocks on British local labour markets	2