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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
ACES membership form	92
Editorial Board	74
Road to division: Ethnic favoritism and road infrastructure in Ethiopia	70
Professional motivation and the quantity–quality trade-off	62
Judicial venality in Old Regime France: A rational choice analysis	60
Citizen empowerment through land reform	53
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	51
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	47
Changes to our editorial board	45
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy	42
Biting the hand that teaches: Unraveling the economic impact of banning private tutoring in China	36
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	32
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	30
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	29
Fragmentation or inequality: Ethnic divisions and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa	29
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19	29
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	27
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	26
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	24
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	24
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	23
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	22
Fertility and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the new two-child policies in urban China	22
Public events boost nationalist identity	21
The effects of female political participation on missing women: Evidence from the Egyptian protests of 2011–2014	19

Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	19
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	19
The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China	19
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	19
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	17
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	17
Internal migration and labor share: Theory and evidence	15
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	15
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics	15
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	14
International tax evasion, state purchases of confidential bank data and voluntary disclosures	14
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	14
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	14
Editorial Board	13
Constitutions, education and gender norms change: Evidence from Colombia	13
Synchronized elections strengthen party salience: Evidence from a decentralized democracy	13
Globalization raises intergenerational inequality transmission in chinese villages	13
Trade liberalization and gender dynamics: The impact of policy uncertainty on sex ratios at birth in China	13
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program	13
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	12
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States	12
Periods of uncertainty are linked to greater acceptance of minorities	12
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China	12
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	12
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection	11
Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Evidence from a large-scale vaccination experiment in China	11
Intellectual property rights protection and firm innovation: Evidence from half million firms in China	11
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?	11
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China	10
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods	10
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	10
Special issue announcement	10
More than a degree: China’s college expansion and the marriage market	10
ACES membership form	10
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–2016	9
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects	9
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	9
Gender minority: A non-pecuniary approach to political capital	8
Gendered language and gendered violence	8
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	8
Does pollution affect exports? Evidence from China	8
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine	8
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration	8
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	8
Economic globalization and income shares	8
Imported intermediate digital inputs and income inequality	8
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China	8
Editorial Board	8
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	8
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	8

The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal	8
The origins of political institutions and property rights	8
Misallocation across establishment gender	8
Mass migration and natives’ health at birth: Evidence from Syrian refugee inflows to Turkey	8
A theory of symbiotic corruption	7
Foreign-assisted infrastructure and local employment: Evidence from China's aid to Africa	7
The impact of low-carbon pilots policy on health	7
Leadership vacuum and urban economic development: Evidence from a transition country	7
Societal diversity, group identities and their implications for tax morale	7
Settling prosperity: Historical immigration and its long-term institutional legacies	7
Editorial Board	7
Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment	6
Foreign direct investment and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from China	6
Dynamic returns to political tenure	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Staying on top: Political cycles in private bank lending	6
Conflict and social capital: Evidence from the Russian War against Ukraine	6
Bureaucracy-business relationship, corruption and the implications for marketization	6
ACES membership form	6
Firms’ access to finance in resource-based countries and the financial resource curse	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
The growth consequences of socialism	6
How does the Chinese communist party embrace the private sector?	5
The cultural origins of family firms	5
Gender equality in Asia and Europe during the 20th century: The role of socialism	5
Proximity to universities and innovation: Quasi-experimental evidence from urban China	5
The compulsory education law, female education and fertility: An empirical study in China	5
Law and economic behaviour	5
Group composition of income types and the absolute-relative framing of public good contributions	4
The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India	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
Can digital financial inclusion facilitate intergenerational income mobility? Evidence from China	4
Migration networks, export shocks, and human capital acquisition: Evidence from China	4
The impact of anti-corruption on mental health: Evidence from China	4
Liberalizing reforms do not cause suicide: Causal estimation using matching, 1980–2019	4
The colonial legacy of education: Evidence from Tunisia	4
Canal and trade: Transportation infrastructure and market integration in China, 1780–1911	4
The impact of health insurance on job location choice: Evidence from rural China	4
Understanding trends in Chinese skill premiums, 2007–2018	4
How does FDI transmit into domestic investment? Exploring intra-industry and financial channels	4
Economic or political uncertainty in early life reduces later tolerance	4
Open-source information and repression	4
Sleeping with the enemy: The perils of having the government on(the)board	4
ACES membership form	4
Minimum wage spike and income underreporting: A back-of-the-envelope-wage analysis	3
Tariffs and growth: Heterogeneity by economic structure	3
Network analysis of “top-five” economics journals	3
A simple method to ex-ante quantify the unobservable effects of trade liberalization and trade protection	3
Stuck outside the single market; Evidence from firms in central and eastern Europe	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
Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions	3
Rebundling Institutions: How property rights and contracting institutions combine for growth	3
Effects of public sector wages on corruption: Wage inequality matters	3
The joint effects of financial development and the business environment on firm growth: Evidence from Vietnam	3
Editorial Board	3
How can migration unequalize inheritance: Theory and insights from Bolivia	3
Editorial Board	3
Demilitarization and economic growth: Empirical evidence in support of a peace dividend	3
The effects of superstition on firms' investment behavior: Evidence from Vietnam, an irreligious country✰	3
The impact of an online game-based financial education course: Multi-country experimental evidence	3