OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Quarterly Journal of Economics is 16. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing	870
Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline	365
The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services	269
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs	191
Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and Politics in China	184
Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits	146
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions	135
Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the United States	129
Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence	123
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era	119
Price Discrimination by Negotiation: a Field Experiment in Retail Electricity	105
How do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates	103
Violence against Women at Work	101
Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains	97
Trading Nontradables: The Implications of Europe’s Job-Posting Policy	91
Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs	88
Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door	85
Discrimination in Multiphase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection	84
Generative AI at Work	82
Logs with Zeros? Some Problems and Solutions	82
Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets	77
Worker Beliefs About Outside Options	74
Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980-2019	68
A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	67
Sovereign Bonds Since Waterloo	66

Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory	64
A Fiscal Theory of Persistent Inflation	63
Marginal Effects of Merit Aid for Low-Income Students	62
The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States	58
Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization	56
Welfare and Output With Income Effects and Taste Shocks	55
Eviction and Poverty in American Cities	50
The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany	50
Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field	48
Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery	48
Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market	47
Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle	44
Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations	43
Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search, and Efficiency	43
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record	43
The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships	43
Hours and Wages	42
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay	42
Misdemeanor Prosecution	41
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention	40
The Fractured-Land Hypothesis	40
Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach	40
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education	40
Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence From U.S. Bans on Cousin Marriage	39
Using Divide-and-Conquer to Improve Tax Collection	39
Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement	39
Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers	38
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data	38
The Geography of Unemployment	38
Multinational Banks and Financial Stability	36
Corruption in Customs	35
Costs of Financing U.S. Federal Debt Under a Gold Standard: 1791-1933	34
A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates	33
Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice	33
Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice	32
THE ECONOMICS OF SPATIAL MOBILITY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE USING SMARTPHONE DATA	30
Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings	30
Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies	30
Predictable Effects of Visual Salience in Experimental Decisions and Games	29
Economic Agents as Imperfect Problem Solvers	29
The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right	29
Seeing What is Representative	27
The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice	27
When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870	26
Understanding Tax Policy: How do People Reason?	26
A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of Sudden Inflations	26
Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments	26
Global Firms in Large Devaluations	26
Let the Worst One Fail: A Credible Solution to the Too-Big-To-Fail Conundrum	25
Correlation Made Simple: Applications to Salience and Regret Theory	25

The Diffusion of New Technologies	25
The Political Economics of Green Transitions	23
Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Run Effects of Bank Failures	23
From Public Labs to Private Firms: Magnitude and Channels of Local R&D Spillovers	22
The Evolutionary Stability of Moral Foundations	22
New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During World War II	22
The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians	21
Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy	20
The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government Under Woodrow Wilson	20
An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization	19
Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers	19
Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Labor Market Adjustment	19
The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions	18
The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation	18
Competing Models	18
Does Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture	18
Origins of the Opioid Crisis and its Enduring Impacts	17
New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?	17
Insurance Versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment	17
Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information	17
Memory and Probability	17
Perceptions About Monetary Policy	17
The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Racial Desegregation Program: Gautreaux	16
Justifying Dissent	16
Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials	16
The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children	16
Identity, Beliefs, and Political Conflict	16
The Evolution of Market Power in the U.S. Automobile Industry	16