OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Quarterly Journal of Economics is 17. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline	1031
Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing	535
The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services	312
Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence	222
Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits	203
Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the United States	178
Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and Politics in China	160
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs	143
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions	126
Price Discrimination by Negotiation: a Field Experiment in Retail Electricity	124
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Exchange Rate Depreciations	123
Violence against Women at Work	109
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era	105
How do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates	97
Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains	81
Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs	80
Trading Nontradables: The Implications of Europe’s Job-Posting Policy	79
Discrimination in Multiphase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection	78
Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door	77
Logs with Zeros? Some Problems and Solutions	74
Generative AI at Work	74
Sovereign Bonds Since Waterloo	73
Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets	67
Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980–2019	63
Worker Beliefs About Outside Options	62

Welfare and Output With Income Effects and Taste Shocks	57
Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization	57
A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	57
A Fiscal Theory of Persistent Inflation	55
Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory	54
The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States	51
Eviction and Poverty in American Cities	50
Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery	49
The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006	49
Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market	48
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record	47
The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany	47
Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field	47
Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations	47
Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle	46
Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic	44
The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships	44
Hours and Wages	43
Misdemeanor Prosecution	43
Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search, and Efficiency	42
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention	42
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education	42
Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach	41
The Fractured-Land Hypothesis	41
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay	38
Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement	38
Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence From U.S. Bans on Cousin Marriage	37
Using Divide-and-Conquer to Improve Tax Collection	36
Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers	35
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges	35
Corruption in Customs	34
The Geography of Unemployment	34
Multinational Banks and Financial Stability	34
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data	34
Dollar Dominance and the Transmission of Monetary Policy	33
Costs of Financing U.S. Federal Debt Under a Gold Standard: 1791-1933	33
Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings	32
A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates	30
Predictable Effects of Visual Salience in Experimental Decisions and Games	30
Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice	30
Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice	30
Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies	29
The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data	29
The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right	26
Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments	25
Seeing What is Representative	25
The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice	25
Economic Agents as Imperfect Problem Solvers	25
When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870	24
A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of Sudden Inflations	23

Global Firms in Large Devaluations	23
Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns	23
The Diffusion of New Technologies	22
Let the Worst One Fail: A Credible Solution to the Too-Big-To-Fail Conundrum	21
The Evolutionary Stability of Moral Foundations	21
The Political Economics of Green Transitions	21
New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During World War II	20
Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Run Effects of Bank Failures	20
The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians	20
From Public Labs to Private Firms: Magnitude And Channels of Local R&D Spillovers	20
An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization	20
Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers	19
Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy	19
Present Bias Unconstrained: Consumption, Welfare, and the Present-Bias Dilemma	18
The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation	18
Marginal Returns to Public Universities	18
Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Labor Market Adjustment	18
Does Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture	18
Competing Models	18
Perceptions About Monetary Policy	17
Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information	17
The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Racial Desegregation Program: Gautreaux	17
Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials	17
Insurance Versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment	17
New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?	17
Memory and Probability	17