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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services	950
Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline	443
Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing	289
Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the United States	210
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs	163
Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits	137
Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and Politics in China	135
Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence	132
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions	119
Violence against Women at Work	112
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Exchange Rate Depreciations	112
How do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates	112
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era	99
Price Discrimination by Negotiation: a Field Experiment in Retail Electricity	95
Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door	94
Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs	92
Logs with Zeros? Some Problems and Solutions	84
Discrimination in Multiphase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection	73
Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains	71
Trading Nontradables: The Implications of Europe’s Job-Posting Policy	71
Generative AI at Work	70
Sovereign Bonds Since Waterloo	70
A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	69
Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980–2019	67
Worker Beliefs About Outside Options	60

Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets	59
A Fiscal Theory of Persistent Inflation	57
Eviction and Poverty in American Cities	56
Marginal Effects of Merit Aid for Low-Income Students	55
The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States	54
Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization	53
Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory	52
Welfare and Output With Income Effects and Taste Shocks	51
The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006	48
Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery	47
Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market	47
The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany	46
Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field	46
The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships	45
Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations	45
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record	44
Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle	44
Hours and Wages	43
The Fractured-Land Hypothesis	43
Misdemeanor Prosecution	42
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay	42
Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach	40
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education	40
Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search, and Efficiency	39
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention	39
Using Divide-and-Conquer to Improve Tax Collection	39
Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement	38
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges	37
The Geography of Unemployment	36
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data	35
Corruption in Customs	34
Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence From U.S. Bans on Cousin Marriage	34
Multinational Banks and Financial Stability	34
Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers	34
Costs of Financing U.S. Federal Debt Under a Gold Standard: 1791-1933	33
Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice	33
Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies	32
Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice	32
Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings	32
Dollar Dominance and the Transmission of Monetary Policy	31
Predictable Effects of Visual Salience in Experimental Decisions and Games	30
A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates	29
The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right	29
The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data	29
The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice	28
Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments	28
Economic Agents as Imperfect Problem Solvers	27
Seeing What is Representative	26
When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870	25
Let the Worst One Fail: A Credible Solution to the Too-Big-To-Fail Conundrum	24

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