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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	55
Citizen empowerment through land reform	51
Editorial Board	41
Sexual exploitation of trafficked children: Survey evidence from child sex workers in Bangladesh	38
The moderating role of culture on the benefits of economic freedom: Cross-country analysis	37
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	37
ACES membership form	37
Coups, regime transitions, and institutional consequences	33
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	32
Epidemics, disease control, and China’s long-term development	32
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy	30
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	28
Changes to our editorial board	27
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	26
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	25
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	23
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	23
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	22
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	22
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	22
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	22
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	19
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	19

Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	18
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	18
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	16
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics	16
The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China	16
Exchange rate disconnect and financial constraints —evidence from Chinese firms	15
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	15
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	14
Touch thee not: Group conflict, caste power and untouchability in rural India	14
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	14
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States	14
Editorial Board	14
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program	14
Enfranchising non-citizens: What drives natives’ willingness to share power?	12
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	12
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China	11
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?	11
The puzzling politics of R&D: Signaling competence through risky projects	11
The unintended harms of infrastructure: Opium and road construction in Afghanistan	11
Special issue announcement	11
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection	11
Voter turnout and intergenerational redistribution	11
ACES membership form	10
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China	10
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	10
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods	10
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	9
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	9
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	9
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects	9
Democratic transitions can attract foreign direct investment: Effect, trajectories, and the role of political risk	9
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–2016	9
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	9
The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal	8
Editorial Board	8
Gendered language and gendered violence	8
The effect of regulating political connections: Evidence from China's board of directors ban	8
Defective democracy and the political budget cycle	8
Misallocation across establishment gender	8
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	8
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine	7
The origins of political institutions and property rights	7
Current expenditure upswings in good times and public investment downswings in bad times? New evidence from developing countries	7
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China	7
Leadership vacuum and urban economic development: Evidence from a transition country	7
Post-materialism and economic growth: Cultural backlash, 1981–2019	7
Editorial Board	7
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration	7
The political transfer problem: How cross-border financial windfalls affect democracy and civil war	7
A theory of symbiotic corruption	7

Editorial Board	6
Staying on top: Political cycles in private bank lending	6
ACES membership form	6
Foreign-assisted infrastructure and local employment: Evidence from China's aid to Africa	6
Societal diversity, group identities and their implications for tax morale	6
Bureaucracy-business relationship, corruption and the implications for marketization	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
The changing composition of academic majors and wage dynamics: Beyond mean returns	6
Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment	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	5
The growth consequences of socialism	5
The cultural origins of family firms	5
The great Chinese inequality turnaround	5
Foreign direct investment and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from China	5
Capitalist systems and income inequality	5
Editorial Board	5
Gender equality in Asia and Europe during the 20th century: The role of socialism	5
Conflict and social capital: Evidence from the Russian War against Ukraine	5
Convergence, divergence, or multiple steady states? New evidence on the institutional development within the European Union	5
Editorial Board	5
The compulsory education law, female education and fertility: An empirical study in China	5
Firms’ access to finance in resource-based countries and the financial resource curse	5
ACES membership form	4
Understanding trends in Chinese skill premiums, 2007–2018	4
The impact of anti-corruption on mental health: Evidence from China	4
Group composition of income types and the absolute-relative framing of public good contributions	4
Trust in government in times of crisis: A quasi-experiment during the two world wars✰	4
Persuasive propaganda during the 2015 Argentine Ballotage	4
The origins of agricultural inheritance traditions	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
Perception of political instability in election periods: Evidence from African firms	4
Law and economic behaviour	4
Editorial Board	4
The legacy of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration	4
Migration networks, export shocks, and human capital acquisition: Evidence from China	4
Canal and trade: Transportation infrastructure and market integration in China, 1780–1911	3
The impact of health insurance on job location choice: Evidence from rural China	3
A simple method to ex-ante quantify the unobservable effects of trade liberalization and trade protection	3
Editorial Board	3
The impact of an online game-based financial education course: Multi-country experimental evidence	3
The joint effects of financial development and the business environment on firm growth: Evidence from Vietnam	3
The colonial legacy of education: Evidence from Tunisia	3
Can digital financial inclusion facilitate intergenerational income mobility? Evidence from China	3
Demilitarization and economic growth: Empirical evidence in support of a peace dividend	3
Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions	3
The effects of superstition on firms' investment behavior: Evidence from Vietnam, an irreligious country✰	3
Rebundling Institutions: How property rights and contracting institutions combine for growth	3
Can bribery buy health? Evidence from post-communist countries	3
Effects of public sector wages on corruption: Wage inequality matters	3
Sleeping with the enemy: The perils of having the government on(the)board	3
The East-West German gap in revenue productivity:Just a tale of output prices?	3
The intergenerational transmission of historical conflicts: An application to China’s trade	3
On the origins of national identity. German nation-building after Napoleon	2
Firms and wage inequality in Central and Eastern Europe	2
State formation and market integration: Germany, 1780–1830	2
How can migration unequalize inheritance: Theory and insights from Bolivia	2
The effects of trade, aid, and investment on China's image in Latin America	2
Do wages grow with experience? Deciphering the Russian puzzle	2
Politician’s childhood experience and government policies: Evidence from the Chinese Great Famine	2
Globalization of capital flows and the (in)disciplining of nations	2
Changes to JCE's board of associate editors	2
The gender education gap in developing countries: Roles of income shocks and culture	2
Topography, borders, and trade across Europe	2
Stock liquidity and the signaling value of patents: Evidence from china's national equities exchange and quotations market	2
Gender discrimination in China: Experimental evidence from the job market for college graduates	2
The long-term effects of the slave trade on political violence in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Minimum wage spike and income underreporting: A back-of-the-envelope-wage analysis	2
When the message hurts: The unintended impacts of nudges on saving	2
The (dis)connection between R&D and productivity in China: Policy implications of R&D tax credits	2
Political economy of cross-border income shifting: A protection racket approach	2
Reducing tariff evasion: The role of trade facilitation	2
How local leaders matter: Inter-provincial leadership transfers and land transactions in China	2
Stuck outside the single market; Evidence from firms in central and eastern Europe	2
The making of the Greek fiscal state, 1833-1939	2
Corporate governance and investment-cash flow sensitivity: Evidence from Russian unlisted firms	2
Legacies of Vietnam's imperial examinations, 1075–1919: More investment in education and better educational outcomes	2
Authoritarian transparency: China's missing cases in court disclosure	2