OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Quarterly Journal of Economics is 13. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Leveraging Virtual Contact and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony	1175
Trust and Innovation Within the Firm: Evidence from Matched CEO-Firm Data	694
Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing	447
Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline	185
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs	164
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions	161
Growth Experiences and Trust in Government	140
Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits	127
Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and Politics in China	120
The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms: Evidence from France	106
Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the United States	94
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era	89
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Exchange Rate Depreciations	89
Violence against Women at Work	83
How do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates	83
Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains	81
Discrimination in Multiphase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection	81
Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs	73
Trading Nontradables: The Implications of Europe’s Job-Posting Policy	70
Logs with Zeros? Some Problems and Solutions	68
Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door	68
Generative AI at Work	65
Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets	62
Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980–2019	60
A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	60

Worker Beliefs About Outside Options	57
Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization	56
Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory	55
A Fiscal Theory of Persistent Inflation	55
Welfare and Output With Income Effects and Taste Shocks	54
Eviction and Poverty in American Cities	53
The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany	52
Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery	52
The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006	52
Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field	50
Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market	49
Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations	49
Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle	48
The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships	46
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record	45
Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic	44
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education	43
Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search, and Efficiency	41
Misdemeanor Prosecution	40
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay	40
Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach	40
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention	39
The Fractured-Land Hypothesis	39
Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence From U.S. Bans on Cousin Marriage	38
Using Divide-and-Conquer to Improve Tax Collection	37
The Geography of Unemployment	36
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges	34
Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement	34
How Do You Identify a Good Manager?	34
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data	33
Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers	33
Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies	32
Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice	32
Corruption in Customs	32
Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings	31
The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Long-Term Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia	30
Dollar Dominance and the Transmission of Monetary Policy	28
The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data	26
Costs of Financing U.S. Federal Debt Under a Gold Standard: 1791-1933	26
The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right	25
Predictable Effects of Visual Salience in Experimental Decisions and Games	25
Civil War–Induced Displacement and Human Capital	25
A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates	25
The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice	24
Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments	24
Acknowledgment of Referees	23
Disaggregated Economic Accounts	23
Economic Agents as Imperfect Problem Solvers	22
Global Firms in Large Devaluations	22
“Compensate the Losers?” Economic Policy and the Origins of U.S. Partisan Realignment	22

A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of Sudden Inflations	22
Seeing What is Representative	22
Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns	22
Let the Worst One Fail: A Credible Solution to the Too-Big-To-Fail Conundrum	21
The Political Economics of Green Transitions	21
Technology Sophistication Across Establishments	21
The Diffusion of New Technologies	21
When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870	21
Complete Pass-Through in Levels	21
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
New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During World War II	19
An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization	18
Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Labor Market Adjustment	18
The Evolutionary Stability of Moral Foundations	18
Perceptions About Monetary Policy	17
A Theory of How Workers Keep up with Inflation	17
Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy	17
The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military	17
Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers	17
Automation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Wages, Inequality, and Productivity	16
Marginal Returns to Public Universities	15
Does Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture	14
Present Bias Unconstrained: Consumption, Welfare, and the Present-Bias Dilemma	14
Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials	13
Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information	13
New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?	13
Memory and Probability	13
Codification, Technology Absorption, and The Globalization of the Industrial Revolution	13