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

Article	Citations
Leveraging Virtual Contact and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony	1336
Trust and Innovation Within the Firm: Evidence from Matched CEO-Firm Data	826
Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing	714
Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline	211
Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the United States	191
Growth Experiences and Trust in Government	145
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs	133
The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms: Evidence from France	132
Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and Politics in China	101
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions	100
Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits	98
Violence against Women at Work	97
How do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates	95
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Exchange Rate Depreciations	91
Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs	89
Public Services Under Private Management	81
Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door	80
Discrimination in Multiphase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection	72
Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains	70
Trading Nontradables: The Implications of Europe’s Job-Posting Policy	69
Generative AI at Work	69
Logs with Zeros? Some Problems and Solutions	67
A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	67
Worker Beliefs About Outside Options	65
Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980–2019	64

Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets	64
Welfare and Output With Income Effects and Taste Shocks	59
Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization	58
Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory	57
A Fiscal Theory of Persistent Inflation	57
Eviction and Poverty in American Cities	57
The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006	54
Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field	52
The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany	52
Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations	51
The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships	51
Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery	51
Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic	47
Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle	46
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record	45
Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search, and Efficiency	45
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention	44
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay	43
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education	43
The Fractured-Land Hypothesis	42
In their Shoes: Empathy Through Information	41
Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach	41
Misdemeanor Prosecution	40
Capital Services in Global Value Chains	39
Using Divide-and-Conquer to Improve Tax Collection	38
How Do You Identify a Good Manager?	37
The Geography of Unemployment	35
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges	34
Mental Models of the Stock Market	34
Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement	33
Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence From U.S. Bans on Cousin Marriage	32
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data	30
Corruption in Customs	30
Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice	29
Dollar Dominance and the Transmission of Monetary Policy	29
Global Working Hours	28
Costs of Financing U.S. Federal Debt Under a Gold Standard: 1791-1933	28
Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies	28
The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Long-Term Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia	27
Praying for Rain	27
Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings	26
Civil War–Induced Displacement and Human Capital	26
A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates	26
The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data	26
The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice	25
Disaggregated Economic Accounts	25
“Compensate the Losers?” Economic Policy and the Origins of U.S. Partisan Realignment	25
The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right	25
Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments	25
Acknowledgment of Referees	24

Seeing What is Representative	24
Let the Worst One Fail: A Credible Solution to the Too-Big-To-Fail Conundrum	23
Global Firms in Large Devaluations	23
A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of Sudden Inflations	22
Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns	22
Complete Pass-Through in Levels	21
When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870	21
Technology Sophistication Across Establishments	20
The Diffusion of New Technologies	20
The Evolutionary Stability of Moral Foundations	20
The Political Economics of Green Transitions	20
Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy	19
A Theory of How Workers Keep up with Inflation	19
The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians	19
Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers	19
From Public Labs to Private Firms: Magnitude And Channels of Local R&D Spillovers	19
An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization	18
Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Labor Market Adjustment	18
The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military	18
Marginal Returns to Public Universities	18
Automation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Wages, Inequality, and Productivity	16
Perceptions About Monetary Policy	16
Does Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture	16
Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information	16
Present Bias Unconstrained: Consumption, Welfare, and the Present-Bias Dilemma	16
Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials	15
Memory and Probability	15
The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Racial Desegregation Program: Gautreaux	15
Insurance Versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment	14
New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?	14
Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution	13
The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market	13
A Cognitive Theory of Reasoning and Choice	13
Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market	13