OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Quarterly Journal of Economics is 15. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline	707
The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services	238
Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing	212
Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and Politics in China	158
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs	158
Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence	154
Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2018	142
Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the United States	130
Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits	123
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions	112
How do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates	110
Price Discrimination by Negotiation: a Field Experiment in Retail Electricity	101
Violence against Women at Work	98
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era	89
Discrimination in Multiphase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection	87
Trading Nontradables: The Implications of Europe’s Job-Posting Policy	86
Generative AI at Work	84
Logs with Zeros? Some Problems and Solutions	81
Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains	80
The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats	76
Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets	76
Sovereign Bonds Since Waterloo	73
A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	67
Worker Beliefs About Outside Options	67
Welfare and Output With Income Effects and Taste Shocks	67

Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory	65
Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization	65
A Fiscal Theory of Persistent Inflation	57
Marginal Effects of Merit Aid for Low-Income Students	54
Eviction and Poverty in American Cities	53
The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States	53
The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany	52
Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery	51
Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market	51
Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle	50
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record	47
The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships	45
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education	43
Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search, and Efficiency	41
The Fractured-Land Hypothesis	40
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention	40
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay	40
Hours and Wages	39
Would Eliminating Racial Disparities in Motor Vehicle Searches have Efficiency Costs?	37
Efficient Coding and Risky Choice	37
Using Divide-and-Conquer to Improve Tax Collection	36
Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence From U.S. Bans on Cousin Marriage	36
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data	36
Misdemeanor Prosecution	36
Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis	36
Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers	35
The Geography of Unemployment	35
Corruption in Customs	35
Multinational Banks and Financial Stability	35
Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings	35
A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates	34
Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice	34
Predictable Effects of Visual Salience in Experimental Decisions and Games	33
Costs of Financing U.S. Federal Debt Under a Gold Standard: 1791-1933	32
Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice	32
Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies	31
Seeing What is Representative	30
The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right	30
Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments	30
The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice	30
Global Firms in Large Devaluations	29
Economic Agents as Imperfect Problem Solvers	29
Understanding Tax Policy: How do People Reason?	29
A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of Sudden Inflations	29
When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870	28
Let the Worst One Fail: A Credible Solution to the Too-Big-To-Fail Conundrum	28
The Political Economics of Green Transitions	27
The Diffusion of New Technologies	27
The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians	26
Correlation Made Simple: Applications to Salience and Regret Theory	26

New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During World War II	24
The Evolutionary Stability of Moral Foundations	24
Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Run Effects of Bank Failures	24
The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government Under Woodrow Wilson	23
Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy	23
Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers	22
An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization	21
The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions	20
The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation	20
Perceptions About Monetary Policy	20
Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Labor Market Adjustment	20
Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials	19
Does Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture	19
The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Racial Desegregation Program: Gautreaux	19
Competing Models	19
Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information	18
The Investment Network, Sectoral Comovement, and the Changing U.S. Business Cycle	18
Memory and Probability	17
New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?	17
Identity, Beliefs, and Political Conflict	17
The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children	16
Justifying Dissent	16
Origins of the Opioid Crisis and its Enduring Impacts	16
The Evolution of Market Power in the U.S. Automobile Industry	16
The Lifetime Impacts of the New Deal's Youth Employment Program	15
The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market	15
What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.	15