OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Public Economics is 38. 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
Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	569
Polarization and public health: Partisan differences in social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic	503
The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations: Evidence from a survey	489
Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of COVID-19	469
COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being: Evidence from Google Trends	403
Fear, lockdown, and diversion: Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020	327
Human mobility restrictions and the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China	322
Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks: Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time	177
Early evidence of the impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment	169
Civic capital and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic☆	167
Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic	147
Asocial capital: Civic culture and social distancing during COVID-19	117
When carbon emission trading meets a regulated industry: Evidence from the electricity sector of China	114
The heterogeneous and regressive consequences of COVID-19: Evidence from high quality panel data	106
COVID and crime: An early empirical look	105
Intimate partner violence under forced cohabitation and economic stress: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	97
When the great equalizer shuts down: Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times	89
“Rugged individualism” and collective (in)action during the COVID-19 pandemic	84
My home is my castle – The benefits of working from home during a pandemic crisis	81
Job search during the COVID-19 crisis	73
Labor market concerns and support for immigration	73
Revenge of the experts: Will COVID-19 renew or diminish public trust in science?	69
US unemployment insurance replacement rates during the pandemic	66
Economic preferences and compliance in the social stress test of the COVID-19 crisis	66
Environmental regulations and international trade: A quantitative economic analysis of world pollution emissions	57

Political hierarchy and regional economic development: Evidence from a spatial discontinuity in China	55
What the COVID-19 school closure left in its wake: Evidence from a regression discontinuity analysis in Japan	54
The short- and long-run impacts of secondary school absences	52
An evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program using administrative payroll microdata	44
Inequality of fear and self-quarantine: Is there a trade-off between GDP and public health?	44
Centralization and regulatory enforcement: Evidence from personnel authority reform in China	44
Can gender quotas in candidate lists empower women? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design	44
The urban crime and heat gradient in high and low poverty areas	42
State and local government employment in the COVID-19 crisis	42
Just above the exam cutoff score: Elite college admission and wages in China	41
Does re-opening schools contribute to the spread of SARS-CoV-2? Evidence from staggered summer breaks in Germany	40
Environmental taxes and productivity: Lessons from Canadian manufacturing	39
Broadband Internet and social capital	38
Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic	38