OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Economic Studies 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs	380
A More Credible Approach to Parallel Trends	213
Demographics and Automation	183
Income and Wealth Distribution in Macroeconomics: A Continuous-Time Approach	150
Property Rights, Land Misallocation, and Agricultural Efficiency in China	130
Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change	120
Monopoly without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System	117
The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers	115
Immigration and Redistribution	111
Revisiting Event-Study Designs: Robust and Efficient Estimation	94
Should Central Banks Issue Digital Currency?	90
The Missing Profits of Nations	82
Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City	70
Subjective Models of the Macroeconomy: Evidence From Experts and Representative Samples	68
Corruption and Firms	67
Intergenerational Mobility in the Very Long Run: Florence 1427–2011	62
Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System	61
China’s Model of Managing the Financial System	56
Social Norms, Labour Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap Between Skilled and Unskilled Women	52
Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending	51
International Spillovers and Local Credit Cycles	51
From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration	49
What Would You Do with $500? Spending Responses to Gains, Losses, News, and Loans	48
Understanding the Size of the Government Spending Multiplier: It’s in the Sign	47
Should Robots Be Taxed?	45

A Theory of Foreign Exchange Interventions	41
Default Effects And Follow-On Behaviour: Evidence From An Electricity Pricing Program	41
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform	40
IQ, Expectations, and Choice	40
The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements	40
Skill-Biased Structural Change	38
Identifying Shocks via Time-Varying Volatility	38
Are High-Interest Loans Predatory? Theory and Evidence from Payday Lending	37
Spatial Equilibrium, Search Frictions, and Dynamic Efficiency in the Taxi Industry	37
A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents	37
Optimal Automatic Stabilizers	36
Affordable Housing and City Welfare	35
Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade	35
The Gift of Moving: Intergenerational Consequences of a Mobility Shock	34
The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation	33
The Equilibrium Impact of Agricultural Risk on Intermediate Inputs and Aggregate Productivity	33
Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China	33
Taking the Fed at its Word: A New Approach to Estimating Central Bank Objectives using Text Analysis	32
Tax Policy and Lumpy Investment Behaviour: Evidence from China’s VAT Reform	31
Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth	30
Central Bank Swap Lines: Evidence on the Effects of the Lender of Last Resort	29
Reorganization or Liquidation: Bankruptcy Choice and Firm Dynamics	29
Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration	29
Voluntary Disclosure and Personalized Pricing	28
Liquidity and Exchange Rates: An Empirical Investigation	28
Exchange Rate Exposure and Firm Dynamics	28
What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output	28
Firm Heterogeneity in Consumption Baskets: Evidence from Home and Store Scanner Data	27
Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia	27
Opinions as Facts	26
Social Connectedness and Local Contagion	26
Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Income Risk	25
The Value of Unemployment Insurance	24
Globalization, Gender, and the Family	24
On “Trade Induced Technical Change: The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT, and Productivity”	23
Who Chooses Commitment? Evidence and Welfare Implications	23
Mortgage Refinancing, Consumer Spending, and Competition: Evidence from the Home Affordable Refinance Program	23
The Design of Teacher Assignment: Theory and Evidence	23
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights	22
Liquidity Risk and Long-Term Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	22
Global Imbalances and Policy Wars at the Zero Lower Bound	22
The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating	22
Collateral Booms and Information Depletion	22
Subsidizing Labour Hoarding in Recessions: The Employment and Welfare Effects of Short-time Work	22
Measuring the Incentive to Collude: The Vitamin Cartels, 1990–99	22
Motivational Ratings	21
Geography and Agricultural Productivity: Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Plot-Level Data	21
The U.K. as a Technological Follower: Higher Education Expansion and the College Wage Premium	21
Are Marriage-Related Taxes and Social Security Benefits Holding Back Female Labour Supply?	21
How Do Inheritances Shape Wealth Inequality? Theory and Evidence from Sweden	21

Hazed and Confused: The Effect of Air Pollution on Dementia	21
Economic and Social Outsiders but Political Insiders: Sweden’s Populist Radical Right	20
Winning by Default: Why is There So Little Competition in Government Procurement?	20
The Aggregate Implications of Mergers and Acquisitions	20
Social Positions and Fairness Views on Inequality	20
We Are All Behavioural, More, or Less: A Taxonomy of Consumer Decision-Making	19
Testing the Production Approach to Markup Estimation	19
Migration and Informal Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial and a Structural Model	19
Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology	19
Germs, Social Networks, and Growth	19
Firm Dynamics, On-the-Job Search, and Labor Market Fluctuations	18
Dynastic Precautionary Savings	18
Killer Incentives: Rivalry, Performance and Risk-Taking among German Fighter Pilots, 1939–45	18
Hours Constraints, Occupational Choice, and Gender: Evidence from Medical Residents	18
Learning from House Prices: Amplification and Business Fluctuations	18
Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labour Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality	17
Optimal Environmental Targeting in the Amazon Rainforest	17
Browsing versus Studying: A Pro-market Case for Regulation	17
Cupid’s Invisible Hand: Social Surplus and Identification in Matching Models	17
Seawalls and Stilts: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation	17
Liquidity Constraints in the U.S. Housing Market	16
A Theory of Narrow Thinking	16
Recoverability and Expectations-Driven Fluctuations	16
Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds	16
Fiscal Multipliers and Foreign Holdings of Public Debt	16
Informational Herding, Optimal Experimentation, and Contrarianism	16
Patience and Comparative Development	16
Multi-asset Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium with Contingent Claims	16
Market Power in Neoclassical Growth Models	15
The Economic Geography of Global Warming	15
Unemployment Insurance in Macroeconomic Stabilization	15
Trade Finance and the Durability of the Dollar	15
Diagnostic Business Cycles	15
Conditional Superior Predictive Ability	15
Robots, Trade, and Luddism: A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation	15