OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Comparative Economics is 2. 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
ACES membership form	104
Editorial Board	84
Professional motivation and the quantity–quality trade-off	80
Judicial venality in Old Regime France: A rational choice analysis	67
Citizen empowerment through land reform	55
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	52
Road to division: Ethnic favoritism and road infrastructure in Ethiopia	49
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	47
Changes to our editorial board	36
Biting the hand that teaches: Unraveling the economic impact of banning private tutoring in China	34
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	33
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19	33
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	29
Fragmentation or inequality: Ethnic divisions and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa	28
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	27
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	26
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	24
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	24
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	22
Public events boost nationalist identity	22
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	21
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	20
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	20
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	19
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics	18

Internal migration and labor share: Theory and evidence	17
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	17
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	17
The effects of female political participation on missing women: Evidence from the Egyptian protests of 2011–2014	17
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	16
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	16
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	15
Sequencing institutional development: The modernization hypothesis reconsidered	14
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China	14
Constitutions, education and gender norms change: Evidence from Colombia	14
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program	14
Editorial Board	14
International tax evasion, state purchases of confidential bank data and voluntary disclosures	14
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	14
Synchronized elections strengthen party salience: Evidence from a decentralized democracy	13
Trade liberalization and gender dynamics: The impact of policy uncertainty on sex ratios at birth in China	13
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	13
Intellectual property rights protection and firm innovation: Evidence from half million firms in China	12
Periods of uncertainty are linked to greater acceptance of minorities	12
More than a degree: China’s college expansion and the marriage market	12
Globalization raises intergenerational inequality transmission in chinese villages	12
Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Evidence from a large-scale vaccination experiment in China	12
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States	12
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	11
ACES membership form	11
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects	11
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods	11
Gender minority: A non-pecuniary approach to political capital	11
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	11
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	10
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration	10
Economic globalization and income shares	10
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	10
Mass migration and natives’ health at birth: Evidence from Syrian refugee inflows to Turkey	10
Gendered language and gendered violence	10
Does pollution affect exports? Evidence from China	10
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	10
Editorial Board	9
Misallocation across establishment gender	9
Imported intermediate digital inputs and income inequality	9
The origins of political institutions and property rights	9
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine	9
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China	9
The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal	9
Leadership vacuum and urban economic development: Evidence from a transition country	8
Dynamic returns to political tenure	8
The impact of low-carbon pilots policy on health	8
Settling prosperity: Historical immigration and its long-term institutional legacies	8
Societal diversity, group identities and their implications for tax morale	8
A theory of symbiotic corruption	8

Foreign-assisted infrastructure and local employment: Evidence from China's aid to Africa	8
Editorial Board	8
Staying on top: Political cycles in private bank lending	7
Bureaucracy-business relationship, corruption and the implications for marketization	7
Foreign direct investment and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from China	7
ACES membership form	7
Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment	7
Editorial Board	7
Does the early bird catch the worm? The effect of school starting age on educational attainment and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban twins data	6
Proximity to universities and innovation: Quasi-experimental evidence from urban China	6
Editorial Board	6
The growth consequences of socialism	6
The compulsory education law, female education and fertility: An empirical study in China	6
Gender equality in Asia and Europe during the 20th century: The role of socialism	6
Conflict and social capital: Evidence from the Russian War against Ukraine	6
Firms’ access to finance in resource-based countries and the financial resource curse	6
The cultural origins of family firms	6
Law and economic behaviour	5
Group composition of income types and the absolute-relative framing of public good contributions	5
Geopolitical fragmentation and friendshoring evidence from project-level foreign investments data	5
Migration networks, export shocks, and human capital acquisition: Evidence from China	5
The impact of anti-corruption on mental health: Evidence from China	5
How does the Chinese communist party embrace the private sector?	5
Understanding trends in Chinese skill premiums, 2007–2018	5
The effects of political uncertainty on the demand for high-skill workers	5
The colonial legacy of education: Evidence from Tunisia	4
Economic or political uncertainty in early life reduces later tolerance	4
Canal and trade: Transportation infrastructure and market integration in China, 1780–1911	4
A simple method to ex-ante quantify the unobservable effects of trade liberalization and trade protection	4
Can past informality impede registered firms’ access to credit?	4
Perception of political instability in election periods: Evidence from African firms	4
Calamities, common interests, shared identity: What shapes social cohesion in Europe?	4
Migration shocks and voting: Evidence from Ukrainian migration to Poland	4
Sleeping with the enemy: The perils of having the government on(the)board	4
Liberalizing reforms do not cause suicide: Causal estimation using matching, 1980–2019	4
The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India	4
ACES membership form	4
Open-source information and repression	4
Demilitarization and economic growth: Empirical evidence in support of a peace dividend	4
How does FDI transmit into domestic investment? Exploring intra-industry and financial channels	4
Effects of public sector wages on corruption: Wage inequality matters	3
Rebundling Institutions: How property rights and contracting institutions combine for growth	3
Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions	3
Editorial Board	3
Education, desired fertility, and HIV/AIDS: Evidence from China’s compulsory schooling law	3
Tariffs and growth: Heterogeneity by economic structure	3
Can digital financial inclusion facilitate intergenerational income mobility? Evidence from China	3
The effects of superstition on firms' investment behavior: Evidence from Vietnam, an irreligious country✰	3
The East-West German gap in revenue productivity:Just a tale of output prices?	3
Minimum wage spike and income underreporting: A back-of-the-envelope-wage analysis	3
Network analysis of “top-five” economics journals	3
Editorial Board	3
The impact of an online game-based financial education course: Multi-country experimental evidence	3
The making of the Greek fiscal state, 1833-1939	3
How can migration unequalize inheritance: Theory and insights from Bolivia	3
State formation and market integration: Germany, 1780–1830	2
Do wages grow with experience? Deciphering the Russian puzzle	2
Changes to JCE's board of associate editors	2
The US–China tension and global reallocation of Chinese STEM talents	2
Global value chains: Do they impact the allocation of foreign aid?	2
On the origins of national identity. German nation-building after Napoleon	2
Legacies of Vietnam's imperial examinations, 1075–1919: More investment in education and better educational outcomes	2
The sequencing of economic and political reforms in Latin America	2
The gender education gap in developing countries: Roles of income shocks and culture	2
State-owned enterprises in Europe—Firm performance and aggregate effects	2
Globalization of capital flows and the (in)disciplining of nations	2
Razing the church: The enduring effect of Nazi repression in Poland	2
Stock liquidity and the signaling value of patents: Evidence from china's national equities exchange and quotations market	2
Topography, borders, and trade across Europe	2
The trickster’s legacy: The folklore roots of corruption	2
Political economy of cross-border income shifting: A protection racket approach	2
The (dis)connection between R&D and productivity in China: Policy implications of R&D tax credits	2
Sending peace home! The effect of political favoritism on conflict	2