OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Comparative Economics is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	54
ACES membership form	48
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	46
Citizen empowerment through land reform	43
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	42
The moderating role of culture on the benefits of economic freedom: Cross-country analysis	42
Judicial venality in Old Regime France: A rational choice analysis	39
Professional motivation and the quantity–quality trade-off	36
Sexual exploitation of trafficked children: Survey evidence from child sex workers in Bangladesh	35
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy	34
Changes to our editorial board	33
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	33
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19	33
Biting the hand that teaches: Unraveling the economic impact of banning private tutoring in China	30
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	29
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	29
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	28
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	27
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	26
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	24
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	23
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	21
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	21
Fertility and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the new two-child policies in urban China	21
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	19

Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	19
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	18
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	17
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	17
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics	17
The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China	16
Exchange rate disconnect and financial constraints —evidence from Chinese firms	16
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	16
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	16
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	16
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program	15
Editorial Board	15
Intellectual property rights protection and firm innovation: Evidence from half million firms in China	15
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection	13
Enfranchising non-citizens: What drives natives’ willingness to share power?	13
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States	13
The puzzling politics of R&D: Signaling competence through risky projects	13
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	12
Synchronized elections strengthen party salience: Evidence from a decentralized democracy	12
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	12
Globalization raises intergenerational inequality transmission in chinese villages	11
Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Evidence from a large-scale vaccination experiment in China	11
Periods of uncertainty are linked to greater acceptance of minorities	11
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China	11
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	11
Special issue announcement	11
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China	11
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?	11
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods	10
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects	10
ACES membership form	10
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	9
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	9
Gender minority: A non-pecuniary approach to political capital	9
Gendered language and gendered violence	9
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–2016	9
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	9
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	9
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration	8
The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal	8
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine	8
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	8
Editorial Board	8
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China	8
Defective democracy and the political budget cycle	8
Misallocation across establishment gender	8
The origins of political institutions and property rights	8
Post-materialism and economic growth: Cultural backlash, 1981–2019	7
Foreign-assisted infrastructure and local employment: Evidence from China's aid to Africa	7
Editorial Board	7

Editorial Board	7
Leadership vacuum and urban economic development: Evidence from a transition country	7
Current expenditure upswings in good times and public investment downswings in bad times? New evidence from developing countries	7
A theory of symbiotic corruption	7
Societal diversity, group identities and their implications for tax morale	6
Conflict and social capital: Evidence from the Russian War against Ukraine	6
Staying on top: Political cycles in private bank lending	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
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
Editorial Board	6
Bureaucracy-business relationship, corruption and the implications for marketization	6
The growth consequences of socialism	6
Foreign direct investment and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from China	6
The cultural origins of family firms	6
Editorial Board	6
ACES membership form	6
Convergence, divergence, or multiple steady states? New evidence on the institutional development within the European Union	6
Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment	6
Capitalist systems and income inequality	6
Gender equality in Asia and Europe during the 20th century: The role of socialism	6
The compulsory education law, female education and fertility: An empirical study in China	5
Group composition of income types and the absolute-relative framing of public good contributions	5
Understanding trends in Chinese skill premiums, 2007–2018	5
ACES membership form	5
The legacy of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration	5
Liberalizing reforms do not cause suicide: Causal estimation using matching, 1980–2019	5
The impact of anti-corruption on mental health: Evidence from China	5
Can past informality impede registered firms’ access to credit?	5
Law and economic behaviour	5
Firms’ access to finance in resource-based countries and the financial resource curse	5
Migration networks, export shocks, and human capital acquisition: Evidence from China	5
The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India	5
The origins of agricultural inheritance traditions	5
A simple method to ex-ante quantify the unobservable effects of trade liberalization and trade protection	4
The impact of an online game-based financial education course: Multi-country experimental evidence	4
Persuasive propaganda during the 2015 Argentine Ballotage	4
Can bribery buy health? Evidence from post-communist countries	4
The impact of health insurance on job location choice: Evidence from rural China	4
Effects of public sector wages on corruption: Wage inequality matters	4
The colonial legacy of education: Evidence from Tunisia	4
Canal and trade: Transportation infrastructure and market integration in China, 1780–1911	4
Sleeping with the enemy: The perils of having the government on(the)board	4
Demilitarization and economic growth: Empirical evidence in support of a peace dividend	4
Editorial Board	4
Open-source information and repression	4
Perception of political instability in election periods: Evidence from African firms	4
Can digital financial inclusion facilitate intergenerational income mobility? Evidence from China	4
Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions	3
The making of the Greek fiscal state, 1833-1939	3
The East-West German gap in revenue productivity:Just a tale of output prices?	3
Stuck outside the single market; Evidence from firms in central and eastern Europe	3
Editorial Board	3
Do wages grow with experience? Deciphering the Russian puzzle	3
The intergenerational transmission of historical conflicts: An application to China’s trade	3
The effects of superstition on firms' investment behavior: Evidence from Vietnam, an irreligious country✰	3
How can migration unequalize inheritance: Theory and insights from Bolivia	3
Gender discrimination in China: Experimental evidence from the job market for college graduates	3
Stock liquidity and the signaling value of patents: Evidence from china's national equities exchange and quotations market	3
Rebundling Institutions: How property rights and contracting institutions combine for growth	3
The joint effects of financial development and the business environment on firm growth: Evidence from Vietnam	3
Corporate governance and investment-cash flow sensitivity: Evidence from Russian unlisted firms	3
Minimum wage spike and income underreporting: A back-of-the-envelope-wage analysis	3
Topography, borders, and trade across Europe	3