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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Road to division: Ethnic favoritism and road infrastructure in Ethiopia	98
ACES membership form	75
Editorial Board	73
Judicial venality in Old Regime France: A rational choice analysis	62
Professional motivation and the quantity–quality trade-off	62
Citizen empowerment through land reform	54
Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants’ voting behavior	51
Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic	48
Changes to our editorial board	46
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	33
Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso	32
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	30
The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting	30
Online teaching, gender differences and education outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban high schools during the COVID-19	29
Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan	27
Fragmentation or inequality: Ethnic divisions and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa	27
The growth of firms, markets and rents: Evidence from China	26
The effects of discriminatory protections on cross-border mergers and acquisitions	25
Public events boost nationalist identity	24
Labor markets during war time: Evidence from online job advertisements	24
Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior	22
Design and implementation of the price cap on Russian oil exports	22
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	21

The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China	19
Leaping into the dark: A model of policy gambles	19
Fertility and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the new two-child policies in urban China	19
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	19
Youth responses to political populism: Education abroad as a step toward emigration	19
Internal migration and labor share: Theory and evidence	17
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	17
International tax evasion, state purchases of confidential bank data and voluntary disclosures	15
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	15
Phasing out: Routine tasks and retirement	15
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims: Similar work ethics, different social and political ethics	15
The effects of female political participation on missing women: Evidence from the Egyptian protests of 2011–2014	15
Diplomatic relations and agricultural trade	14
Sequencing institutional development: The modernization hypothesis reconsidered	14
Constitutions, education and gender norms change: Evidence from Colombia	14
Street-level responsiveness of city governments in China, Germany, and the United States	13
Editorial Board	13
Synchronized elections strengthen party salience: Evidence from a decentralized democracy	13
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program	13
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	13
Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China	13
Trade liberalization and gender dynamics: The impact of policy uncertainty on sex ratios at birth in China	12
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection	12
Trade shocks, industrial growth, and electrification in early 20th-century China	12
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
Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Evidence from a large-scale vaccination experiment in China	11
Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China	11
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	11
Special issue announcement	11
Globalization raises intergenerational inequality transmission in chinese villages	11
ACES membership form	10
Does the introduction of stock exchange markets boost economic growth in African countries?	10
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods	10
More than a degree: China’s college expansion and the marriage market	10
Land reform and illegal adoption of children	9
Gendered language and gendered violence	9
Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects	9
Gender minority: A non-pecuniary approach to political capital	9
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	9
Fiscal adjustment in a panel of countries 1870–2016	9
Intangible capital, the labour share and national ‘growth regimes’	9
National identity, public goods, and modern economic development	9
The origins of political institutions and property rights	8
Economic globalization and income shares	8
Decentralization and trust in government: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine	8
Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China	8
Editorial Board	8
The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration	8
Imported intermediate digital inputs and income inequality	8

The effects of rainfall shocks on divorce requests: Evidence from Colonial Senegal	8
The impact of low-carbon pilots policy on health	8
Does pollution affect exports? Evidence from China	8
On the optimal size of a joint savings association	8
Mass migration and natives’ health at birth: Evidence from Syrian refugee inflows to Turkey	8
Misallocation across establishment gender	8
Foreign-assisted infrastructure and local employment: Evidence from China's aid to Africa	7
Dynamic returns to political tenure	7
A theory of symbiotic corruption	7
Settling prosperity: Historical immigration and its long-term institutional legacies	7
Editorial Board	7
Leadership vacuum and urban economic development: Evidence from a transition country	7
Societal diversity, group identities and their implications for tax morale	7
Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment	6
Conflict and social capital: Evidence from the Russian War against Ukraine	6
The compulsory education law, female education and fertility: An empirical study in China	6
Staying on top: Political cycles in private bank lending	6
Editorial Board	6
Firms’ access to finance in resource-based countries and the financial resource curse	6
Editorial Board	6
Bureaucracy-business relationship, corruption and the implications for marketization	6
ACES membership form	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
Foreign direct investment and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from China	6
The growth consequences of socialism	6
The cultural origins of family firms	5
The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India	5
Proximity to universities and innovation: Quasi-experimental evidence from urban China	5
How does the Chinese communist party embrace the private sector?	5
How does FDI transmit into domestic investment? Exploring intra-industry and financial channels	5
Gender equality in Asia and Europe during the 20th century: The role of socialism	5
Law and economic behaviour	5
The impact of anti-corruption on mental health: Evidence from China	5
Migration networks, export shocks, and human capital acquisition: Evidence from China	4
Liberalizing reforms do not cause suicide: Causal estimation using matching, 1980–2019	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
Effects of public sector wages on corruption: Wage inequality matters	4
Open-source information and repression	4
Understanding trends in Chinese skill premiums, 2007–2018	4
Can past informality impede registered firms’ access to credit?	4
The colonial legacy of education: Evidence from Tunisia	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
Group composition of income types and the absolute-relative framing of public good contributions	4
Economic or political uncertainty in early life reduces later tolerance	4
ACES membership form	4
Tariffs and growth: Heterogeneity by economic structure	4
Demilitarization and economic growth: Empirical evidence in support of a peace dividend	4
How can migration unequalize inheritance: Theory and insights from Bolivia	3
The impact of health insurance on job location choice: Evidence from rural China	3
Sleeping with the enemy: The perils of having the government on(the)board	3
The effects of superstition on firms' investment behavior: Evidence from Vietnam, an irreligious country✰	3
Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions	3
Minimum wage spike and income underreporting: A back-of-the-envelope-wage analysis	3
Education, desired fertility, and HIV/AIDS: Evidence from China’s compulsory schooling law	3
Can digital financial inclusion facilitate intergenerational income mobility? Evidence from China	3
Editorial Board	3
The joint effects of financial development and the business environment on firm growth: Evidence from Vietnam	3
The making of the Greek fiscal state, 1833-1939	3
Stuck outside the single market; Evidence from firms in central and eastern Europe	3
The impact of an online game-based financial education course: Multi-country experimental evidence	3
The East-West German gap in revenue productivity:Just a tale of output prices?	3
Network analysis of “top-five” economics journals	3
Rebundling Institutions: How property rights and contracting institutions combine for growth	3
Razing the church: The enduring effect of Nazi repression in Poland	3
Editorial Board	3